The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

May 28, 2021 Faith In Bodhicitta
Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery, 05/28/2021 - Exploring verses from the Mahayana Sutralamkara, Yosha shares the inspiration she receives from these explicit teachings on compassion and faith.
27 min
May 27, 2021 What Isn’t Picking and Choosing?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 05/27/2021 - Blue Cliff Record, Case 57 - Zhaozhou's "Stupid Oaf" - In the language of the Dharma, how is "the self" a barrier, and how is it different from our true nature? The challenge when hearing an insult is to see into our own suffering——reactivity and delusion——as the stuff which are the barriers themselves. Shugen Roshi asks the question: While our basic nature is good, happy and peaceful, how do we practice when suffering seems all pervasive? How do we investigate our delusions, remembering that all beings have buddha nature?
44 min
May 26, 2021 Who Can Say the Word Love?
Prabu Gikon Vasan, Senior Lay Practitioner - Zen Mountain Monastery, 05/26/2021 - Making a connection between Master Dogen’s “Ten Directions” fascicle and lines from a number of contemporary poets, Gikon points out that they speak about the hardships we experience while urging us to use it all for healing.
28 min
May 23, 2021 How Do We Give Life To Faith?
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zoom Broadcast, 5/23/2021 - Mumonkan (Gateless Gate) – Case 23: Think Neither Good Nor Evil - Hogen Sensei uses this well-known interaction between Hui Neng, the Sixth Ancestor, and Monk Ming to delve deeply into the meaning of faith. He asks us: When we speak of faith in our practice, the Dharma, what do we mean? Faith in what? Can faith be taken? Can it be given to another?
32 min
May 20, 2021 Noble Path Talk – Virginia Black
Virginia Black, Sangha Member - Zen Center of New York City, 05/20/2021 - The Noble Path series offers personal accounts of MRO sangha members coming to practice and dives into their experiences walking the spiritual path. A diverse set of students and circumstances shows us the many unique ways we encounter and resonate with the Dharma. Yet, despite these differences, we often find a shared thread in each others stories.
13 min
May 16, 2021 It’s Not Complicated
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 05/16/2021 - Blue Cliff Record, Case 58 - Zhaozhou's Can't Explain. - As we share this earth with countless other creatures, we easily forget that we come from one primordial source. In the Dharma we can recognize that each being is a manifestation of one great body. So then, Shugen Roshi asks, why do we make it so complicated? From the perspective of our deluded views, everything is separate and apart, but even this view is the path of awakening to our true nature.
48 min
May 09, 2021 Jukai Ceremony, Spring Ango 2021
Shugen Roshi officiates the Spring Ango Jukai ceremony at Zen Mountain Monastery in which two students received the sixteen Buddhist precepts: Scrap Kyuko (“Enduring Peace”) Wren & Pat Shosen (“Sacred River”) Carnahan. Kyuko and Shosen have each 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 vows.
1 hr 15 min
May 07, 2021 Fusatsu: The Brahma Net Sutra
Hojin Sensei introduces us to the Buddha's Brahma Net Sutra in which he confirms that the Precepts are the heart of our humanity. How do we cultivate practice as a Bodhisattva, one who dedicates their life to release suffering? How can we go through our lives with a stable mind so as to be able to see right from wrong and not be sidetracked by our emotions?
28 min
April 25, 2021 Dharma Encounter April 2021
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 04/25/2021 - Dharma Encounter at the Conclusion of the 2021 Apple Blossom Sesshin - Shugen Roshi begins with the koan in the last paragraph of Master Dogen's fascicle "Ten Directions". Priest Fungshan was asked by a monk: "The World Honored Ones in the ten directions are all on the one path to Nirvana. Let me ask you: where is the path?” Fungshan drew a line in the air with his staff and said: “It’s here". Shugen Roshi asks us: What are the ten directions? Where is the path to liberation? Is it the path that we are on? Why do teachers describe the path in so many different ways? Are there different paths to liberation?
1 hr 3 min
April 24, 2021 Within There is a Jewel
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 04/24/2021 - Blue Cliff Record, Case 62 - Yunmen’s “Within There is a Jewel” - Shugen Roshi reminds us that we are the creators of our lives. Our pervasive sense of being lost or broken is a creation of our mind. Out of habit we look outside of ourselves for relief. This koan tells us to “Turn the light around” and find the jewel within that shows us the path to the end of suffering.
39 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…