The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

August 29, 2021 Sweeping the Ground
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 08/29/2021 - From the Book of Serenity - Case 21: Ungan Sweeps the Ground - In this concluding talk to Hazy Moon Sesshin, Shugen Roshi explores how we can sabotage our own best efforts in the midst of our practice. We set aside the time to cultivate compassion and clarity in the midst of three treasures, and yet we still get caught in distractions and self-pity. This is why Buddhism has always taught the skillfulness of looking directly at dukkha, dissatisfaction and suffering. They remind us of the importance of practice. "Else we may stray off some dusty road." Else we may fool ourselves into thinking we can't be of benefit in the world. Else we may forget how cultivation is inseparable from the world.
46 min
August 28, 2021 Awakening From What? Into What?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Saturday 08/28/2021 - From the Mumonkan (Gateless Gate) – Case 41: Bodhidharma and Peace of Mind
51 min
August 27, 2021 An Empty Heart Full of Love
Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - Zen Mountain Monastery, Friday 08/27/2021 - In this clear talk from Hazy Moon Sesshin, dharma holder Shoan Ankele focuses on how we can use the very struggles and suffering in our everyday life to help free ourselves and discover our heart full of love.
40 min
August 26, 2021 A Life Of No Regrets
Chris Yudo Abraham, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery, Thursday 08/26/2021 - From Milarepa: "This path leads to a Life of no Regrets." - Appreciate our lives? It seems simple at first but when we study our experience closely, we realize that's difficult. What should we do when it looks like everything is going wrong in our life? The first step is to open up and feel what we really feel.
27 min
August 25, 2021 Compassion Embodied
Susan Seien Wilder, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery, Wednesday 08/26/2021 - Seien begins her heartfelt talk by inviting the Sangha to chant the Sutra of Great Compassion together. She goes on to ask who are we invoking? Who is Kanzeon? Who could it be but ourselves?
45 min
August 22, 2021 Practicing Patience
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic - Zen Mountain Monastery, Sunday 8/22/2021 - In our life, we experience not getting what we want, getting what we don’t want, so we try to change things immediately – fueling our suffering. Can we hold our hearts still in the presence of our impatience? Can we make ourselves larger, more inclusive, to live beyond our discontent?
35 min
August 15, 2021 The Mind that Delights in Virtue
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday Morning 08/15/2021 - From The Book of Serenity, Case 75 - Ruiyan's 'Constant Principle' - Shugen Roshi asks "What is change?". Impermanence means that nothing stays the same. We want to escape suffering and we crave pleasure. Our very behavior creates suffering as we cling to things that are impermanent and try to escape what is unpleasant. So the question is: "How can we be free from suffering?" Roshi suggests that a first step would be to practice patience.
49 min
August 15, 2021 Renunciation
Rev. Chimyo Simone Atkinson - Zen Center of New York City, 08/15/21 - What does renunciation mean in our culture? How does it relate or differ to Western Christian notions of leaving the world? This talk by guest teacher Rev. Chimyo Simone Atkinson exploration of the sameness and difference that underlies lay and monastic paths.
42 min
August 08, 2021 Calling Forth the Master Within the Barrier
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday Morning 08/08/2021 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 56 - Ch'in Shan's One Arrowpoint Smashes 3 Barriers - Shugen Roshi chose this koan to coincide with the conclusion to our annual kyudo retreat that ran throughout the week at the Monastery. From the standpoint of the practitioner, the three barriers might be the three poisons: greed, anger and ignorance. Or the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and emptiness of self. It could be whatever seems to be posing a problem. When we insist on maintaining our own delusion, including the delusion of our barriers and our separation from true reality, we need to call forth the master within the barrier. This is the one who truly knows, the archer who is not separate from the target.
45 min
August 08, 2021 Resting In The Hundred Streams
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, 08/08/2021 - From the Teachings of Master Hongzhao - Hojin Sensei discusses Master Hongzhao's poetic instructions on zazen practice. Whether we are new to Zazen or seasoned practitioners the question is the same: how to keep returning to the mind of zazen, resting, like the ocean, accepting all that flows.
45 min

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