The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

August 01, 2021 Proliferating Variants
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday Morning 08/01/2021 - From The Book of Serenity, Case 19 - Ummon's Mount Sumeru - Apologies for the microphone problem during the first 10 seconds obscuring Shugen Roshi's voice for the first sentence of the koan: "The pointer: I always admire the novel devices of Master Ummon."
49 min
July 25, 2021 Dongshan’s Five Ranks – Part 3 of 3
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday Morning 07/25/2021 - From Master Dongshan's Five Ranks - Shugen Roshi teaches that the "Five Ranks" describing stages of realization in Zen Buddhism can seem remote and abstract, but in essence they address the question of how to live fully in the world, peacefully and joyfully, without conflict. They are aspects of the interrelationship of our relative, moment to moment existence, and the absolute nature of reality, and so are never far away at all.
Here, in Part 3, Shugen Roshi takes up the 4th and 5th Ranks: "Arrival at Mutual Integration" and "Unity Attained."
48 min
July 25, 2021 Searching for the Ox
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - Zen Center of New York City, 07/25/2021 - Yunen talks about the first stage of the Zen practice, "Searching for the Ox". He invites practitioners to contemplate the question, "What am I searching for?" He emphasizes the importance of setting intention.
25 min
July 24, 2021 Dongshan’s Five Ranks – Part 2 of 3
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Saturday Afternoon 07/24/2021 - From Master Dongshan's Five Ranks - Shugen Roshi teaches that the "Five Ranks" describing stages of realization in Zen Buddhism can seem remote and abstract, but in essence they address the question of how to live fully in the world, peacefully and joyfully, without conflict. They are aspects of the interrelationship of our relative, moment to moment existence, and the absolute nature of reality, and so are never far away at all.
Here, in Part 2, Shugen Roshi takes up the Third Rank: "Coming from within the Real". Habitually, we experience the World as objects including ourselves and others. All forms seem different and we mistakenly see ourselves as distinct from everything else. How can we shift this perception and see the interdependence of all things? Roshi talks about the importance of zazen in settling into this realization.
47 min
July 23, 2021 Cultivating Realization
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zoom Broadcast, Thursday Evening 07/22/2021 - True Dharma Eye, Case 123 - Mayu's "Nature of the Wind"
41 min
July 22, 2021 Dongshan’s Five Ranks – Part 1 of 3
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday Evening 07/21/2021 - Dongshan's Five Ranks - Part 1 of 3 - Shugen Roshi teaches that the "Five Ranks" describing stages of realization in Zen Buddhism can seem remote and abstract, but in essence they address the question of how to live fully in the world, peacefully and joyfully, without conflict. They are aspects of the interrelationship of our relative, moment to moment existence, and the absolute nature of reality, and so are never far away at all.
48 min
July 21, 2021 A Fresh State of Being
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Tuesday Evening 07/20/2021 - From the Teachings of Yogini Machig Labdrőn - Hojin Sensei offers us the teachings of Machig Labdrőn, a Tibetan Buddhist yogini who lived and taught during the 11th-century. We are reminded that we can experience life as sweet, bitter or both. Machig Labdrőn encourages us to examine our blind spots in order to realize that the obstacles in our path are just a product of our confusion and hardening views. We should remain in the examination of what is happening now.
43 min
July 18, 2021 The Interdependence of Squabbling Squashes
Shohaku Okumura, Roshi - via Zoom, Zen Mountain Monastery, Sunday 07/18/21 - Teachings from "Opening the Hand of Thought" (by Okumura Roshi's teacher Kosho Uchiyama) - In today's talk, presented to the MRO Sangha via Zoom, Okumura Roshi begins with the children's story of the "Squabbling Squashes", a parable about connectedness and interdependence. He goes on to teach that Zazen is a practice of opening up to life, of actualizing our True Self.
46 min
July 11, 2021 Untangling the Tangle
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, Sunday 07/11/2021 - True Dharma Eye, Case 227 - Priest Xixian’s “I’m Am Watching”
50 min
July 04, 2021 Adventitous Defilements
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic - Zen Mountain Monastery, 07/04/2021 - From a Diamond Sutra Commentary: "Consider the tree outside the door. Although it serves as a resting place for birds, it doesn't make an effort to call those that come, nor does it care whether those that leave return. When a person's mind is like the trees they no longer oppose the way."
28 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…