The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

August 24, 2019 Quenching the Thirst
Danica Shoan Ankele, Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/24/2019

42 min
August 24, 2019 Beholding the Mind
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
From The Record of Master Bodhidharma: the Breakthrough Sermon
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/23/2019
Zen has been called a “short cut method” to enlightenment and in that regard this practice of beholding the mind might seem easy. But when called to let go of every shred of identity-clinging we create, the path seems much longer, if not impossible. Insight can be sudden but realization takes all the effort we can manage to manifest insight in the world of differentiation: practicing kindness when feeling selfish, finding equanimity in the midst of conflict, all require beholding the vast and boundless corners of mind.
49 min
August 23, 2019 The Long Haul
Robert Rakusan Ricci, Senior Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/22/2019
Words from long-time Zen practitioner and monastic Rakusan. Drawing on his lifetime of poetry as spiritual practice, he offers perspectives on the long road of distraction and commitment, obstacles and skillful means helping us to grapple with the wonder and the mystery of our lives.
40 min
August 22, 2019 Clear Spirit Breeze, Breath of our Song
Michael Chizen Brown, Senior Lay Practitioner
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/21/2019
A universal spiritual element, the breath of life is also the basis of zazen practice as taught in Zen Buddhism. The breath as a practice is fundamental in working with the mind, letting go of conceptual thought, practicing bodhicitta, and raising the Buddha Mind. Long-time senior lay practitioner Chizen shares perspectives on practicing the heart of the Way during the Hazy Moon Sesshin.
33 min
August 19, 2019 Yunmen Composes a Verse
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
True Dharma Eye, Case 261
Zen Center of New York City, 08/18/2019
Poetry when used as a Zen art serves to bring seekers to realization; although they may beautifully reveal and turn the phenomenal world, all Dharma teachings in these poems point to the great reality, to Buddha nature, right here and right now. Using the example of Yunmen guiding a student in this koan, Shugen Roshi encourages us to take heed and use our time on this earth to good use, being of true benefit to both self and other.
50 min
August 18, 2019 The Practice of True Reality
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/18/2019
A verse by Master Hongzhi is a direct encouragement to work with mind and the thoughts which generally occupy us. This helpful talk from monastic Gokan explores using these teachings to shift from habitual spinning into a practice that is not obscured by external causes and conditions, but is a practice of true reality.
33 min
August 11, 2019 The Diamond Cutter Scriptures Scornful Revilement
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record, Case 97
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/11/2019
Causes and conditions give rise to all things; so how does karma transform? How can the Buddhadharma help us understand our own potential, and our responsibility; how we can transform our own suffering, and that which we encounter in our world? In this discourse Shugen Roshi explores working with our mind’s ability to encounter extreme views and still stay present and engaged in the activity of change.
51 min
August 11, 2019 Born as the Earth
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 08/11/2019
Taking up a commentary from Koans of the Way of Reality, Hojin asks, “where do you find your self?” How do we realize ourselves as the entire world? Within all that we’re holding together and in our hearts and minds, returning to this great earth is returning again to our natural mind, our “Buddha nature,” and our great capacity, even in the most challenging of times.
41 min
August 04, 2019 Meeting a True Person on The Way
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Master Wumen, Gateless Gate, Case 36
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/04/2019
The Buddha, sometimes called the Great Physician, addressed the fundamental illness of delusion, healing himself and establishing a path to help us all to that great healing. The Bodhisattva sees through the fog of delusion and lives to be of benefit to all beings, and so we grapple with our world to recognize delusion and to meet each other within great suffering, with great compassion.
51 min
August 04, 2019 Using the 24 Hours
Valerie Meiju Linet, Senior Lay Student
Zen Center of New York City, 08/04/2019
How do we best use our minds throughout the day? Taking up an exchange between Zen master Joshu and a student, senior lay student Meiju explores the urgency we feel at not wasting our lives, or our time, as a place that often slips into disconnection from what is actually happening. How do we use the 24-hours without being used by them?
47 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…