The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

April 23, 2021 Investigating Wonder
Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic - Zen Mountain Monastery, 04/23/2021 - Drawing inspiration from Master Hongzhi’s teachings “Cultivating the Empty Field”, Monastic Shoan invites us to tap into our innate sense of wonder and investigate the fundamental questions: Who is this I? Who am I? What is impermanence? And so, how do we actually soften our fixations on reified reality and let go? We can begin by resting in wonder. For starters, the world is burning AND the springtime is glorious.
44 min
April 22, 2021 All is Burning
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery (Via Zoom), 04/22/2021 - Bringing forth the Fire Sermon Discourse, one of the Buddha’s earliest teachings, Yunen asks us to investigate the sources of our suffering: Why do we suffer? What is this fire we live in? Is it possible that we have something to do with this suffering?
24 min
April 21, 2021 Serenity in a World of Trouble
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/21/2021 - Book of Serenity, Case 60 - Iron-Grinder Liu - Evoking this pithy exchange between Liu Tiemo and her teacher Guishan, Shugen Roshi asks us to reflect on how we meet these teachings. How do we turn towards what we do not understand but somehow know is true? And ultimately, how do we become serene in a world of perceived adversity?
43 min
April 18, 2021 Novice Ordination for Kien Martin
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/18/2021 - Halfway through Ango, Shugen Roshi officiated this novice monastic ordination for Jeffrey Kien Martin. Kien is currently the Monastery cook (among other responsibilities), but his involvement with the Monastery goes back two and a half decades. Now, as he takes on the robes of a novice, Kien will further explore the monastic vows and train in the role of a monastic, though it’s worth noting that one does not formally commit to those vows until full ordination, leaving the discernment process open to further clarification. Those lifetime vows are: simplicity, service, selflessness, stability, and following the path of the Buddha.
1 hr
April 15, 2021 Noble Path Talk – Tenfu Loisel
Zabeth Tenfu Loisel, Lay Student - Zen Center of New York City, 04/15/2021 - 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.
27 min
April 11, 2021 Buddha Speech
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/11/2021 - The Blue Cliff Record, Case 95 - Ch'ang Ch'ing's "Three Poisons" - Picking up where he left off from a previous Fusatsu talk on Right Speech ("Learning How to Speak" - 4/8/21), Shugen Roshi investigates storied examples of practitioners using language to express the ordinary and the extraordinary. Master Dogen says, "Words are neither different nor not different from our fundamental nature. But if a person becomes attached to words and their everyday meaning, they can become attached to views." We tend to use words very casually, but language has power and views can imprison.
51 min
April 08, 2021 Fusatsu: Learning How to Speak
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/8/2021
25 min
April 04, 2021 Unborn, Undying
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/4/2021 - As we celebrate the Buddha's Birthday today, Hojin Sensei offers a teaching from Zen Master Bankei: "What I teach everyone, in these talks of mine, is the unborn buddha mind of unlimited wisdom. Nothing else. Everyone is endowed with this buddha mind, only they don't know it." Sensei looks at the subtle ways "the unborn buddha mind" manifests in and through all of us and she reminds us that we are all living Buddhas.
53 min
March 30, 2021 Collective Liberation
1 hr 41 min
March 28, 2021 Dharma Encounter
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/28/2021 Dharma Encounter Master Dogen, in his fascicle...
1 hr 11 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…