The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

October 31, 2021 Continuous Practice
Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 10/31/2021 - Senior lay student Yosha shares her story of entering the Zen path and what continuous practice means to her. She offers practical tools for lay practitioners in their daily life.
46 min
October 24, 2021 Dharma Encounter: Vows
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 10/24/2021 - Dharma Encounter at the Conclusion of the Harvest Moon Sesshin.
1 hr 10 min
October 23, 2021 What is this “It”?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Saturday 10/23/2021 - From Wumen's Gateless Gate, Case 38 - It's Like a Buffalo Passing Through A Window - "The world is but the tail of a buffalo passing through a window." But what about when we feel stuck? How do we free ourselves in the midst of our karmic dispositions? Some of them seem quite sticky indeed. In this talk from the last day of our Harvest Sesshin, Shugen Roshi talks about koan training in our Zen tradition. Each of them are windows into our own barriers, helping us to eventually experience these barriers as empty of any definitive existence.
45 min
October 22, 2021 The Jeweled Net of One Body-Mind
Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery, 10/22/2021 - Senior lay student Yosha shares the joy, inspiration and encouragement she receives from her study and exploration of the Avatamsaka Sutra (the Flower Ornament Scripture).
33 min
October 21, 2021 Sometimes……
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 10/21/2021 - From the poetry of David Whyte - Hogen Sensei asks us to consider the questions - we all have - that, As David Whyte puts it, "can make or unmake a life." What are they? How do we respond? Can we let them be, let them stay with us? Can we live with them without grasping for answers?
41 min
October 20, 2021 Sometimes a Soft Autumn Breeze, Sometimes a Raging Fire
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday 10/20/2021 - From The Book of Serenity, Case 33 - Sangsheng's "Golden Fish" - The teachings talk a lot about being free and unbound. How do we actually live that? On the Bodhisattva path the question is "What is needed, What will be helpful?"
47 min
October 17, 2021 Jukai Ceremony, Fall Ango 2021
Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 10/17/2021 - Shugen Roshi officiates the Fall Ango Jukai ceremony at Zen Mountain Monastery in which five students receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts: Jessica Shokei Ludwig ("sacred jewel"), Joanne Jishin Dearcopp ("compassionate faith"), Jimmie Seikaku Stone ("vow of awakening"), Jack Kanro Hennesey ("barrier of openness"), Diane Ansen Strablow ("peaceful waters / peaceful spring"). Shokei, Jishin, Seikaku, Kanro, & Ansen have all been practicing as formal students and studying these moral and ethical teachings for a number of years. During the ceremony Shugen Roshi offers joyful encouragement to the recipients as they take up these living teachings, living vows.
1 hr 21 min
October 13, 2021 Shugen Roshi with Dr. Philip Ninan
A live conversation between Shugen Arnold, Roshi, abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, and Buddhist neuroscientist Dr. Phillip Ninan. The two tackle a number of tricky questions where the findings of science, the teachings of the Buddha, and the practice of meditation all intersect to better illuminate one another.
1 hr 23 min
October 10, 2021 Vulnerable Buddha
Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - Zen Mountain Monastery, Sunday 10/10/2021 - In allowing ourselves to be uncomfortable, in experiencing the discomfort of whatever is binding us, we touch our aliveness and see into our true nature. Mn. Shoan talks about vulnerability as a path of liberation.
40 min
October 03, 2021 Skillful Means of Liberation
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 10/03/2021 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 100 - Pa Ling's Blown Hair Sword - What are the most effective, skillful means to liberate ourselves? Along with meditation which is the primary practice in most branches of Buddhism, there is koan practice which is central in our Zen tradition. Shugen Roshi describes how these are engaged together using the example of a blown hair sword.
50 min

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The Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) is a Western Zen Buddhist lineage established by the late John Daido Loori Roshi and dedicated to sharing the dharma as it has been passed down, generation to…