The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

July 28, 2019 Guishan’s “Great Capacity, Great Function”
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
True Dharma Eye, Case 279
Zen Mountain Monastery, 07/28/2019
Our capacity is boundless, but how do we put one foot in front of the other again and again on a long spiritual path? Letting go of fixed patterns and habits is a process; freeing ourselves and others from great suffering takes time and commitment. Our potential, Shugen Roshi reminds us, comes alive from our willingness to practice and encounter things as they are, without shutting down or turning away. And we don’t do this alone, but with the support and guidance and wisdom of others.
45 min
July 28, 2019 The Monster Within
Michael Yukon Grody, Senior Monastic
Zen Center of New York City, 07/28/2019
We all have the capacity to change for the better, and often face resistance to those very changes that could improve our lives and those of our communities and our world. What is underneath our resistance? Monastic Yukon asks, What do we feel apart from, how do we feel disconnected? From the natural world, and from each other? Understanding our minds and our intrinsic Buddha nature can bring out the sense of wholeness and compassion within us that we deeply want to know.
25 min
July 28, 2019 Buddhas come Whole
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 7/27/2019
Sesshin can provide us with many things: time and space to develop concentrated awareness; an enhanced appreciation for the value of sangha. It also has the power to show us our minds more keenly than at other times, particularly where we get stuck.
On the last day of Interdepedence Sesshin, Senior Monastic Gokan talks about the irritations that can arise, and do arise, in the container of a weeklong meditation intensive. Whether it’s an itch or a person triggering an habitual annoyance, where does it begin? And where exactly is the problem?
40 min
July 27, 2019 Pilgrim at Garuda Island
Danica Shoan Ankele, Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 07/26/2019
Flying garudas, tinkling bees and singing dakinis. Senior Monastic Shoan Ankele describes some of the practices taken up during the women’s wilderness retreat earlier this month. Seated on the banks of a sparkling Adirondack Lake, immanent details of the shoreline come into sharp focus. “Are we noticing this world?” Shoan asks. “When our mind quiets we can catch a glimpse. And the implications of a glimpse give us some sense of what’s possible. They reverberate.”
47 min
July 27, 2019 Mistakes in Practice, Practicing Mistakes
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student
Zen Mountain Monastery, 07/25/2019

26 min
July 26, 2019 Grounding in Groundlessness
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 07/24/2019
In this talk from Interdependence Sesshin, Hojin Sensei employs the concept of immo—or “that which is”—from Master Dogen’s fascicle of the same name. Being tripped up by the ground beneath our feet (or a situation that we meet) we depend on that same ground to get back up. And we also depend upon the empty space, our full potential. When you stumble and fall, Sensei suggests, don’t be so quick to jump back up again. You may just find hidden gems, including the ground itself.
53 min
July 21, 2019 Keeping Quiet
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 07/21/2019

47 min
July 21, 2019 Academic Study
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student
Zen Center of New York City, 07/21/2019
Please note the first few minutes of this audio are missing.
22 min
July 15, 2019 Factors of Awakening
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 7/14/2019
The Buddha’s early teachings in the sutras included mythical beings, the Nagas, as role models to help guide our practice into wholesome qualities and expansiveness. The Seven Factors of Awakening demonstrate these qualities of the Nagas, and as Gokan offers in this senior’s talk, and we can nourish ourselves with understanding the factors of mindfulness, investigation of dharmas, energy, rapture, calm, concentration and equanimity.

42 min
July 15, 2019 Minding the Gap
Robert Rakusan Ricci, Senior Monastic
Zen Center of New York City, 7/14/2019
The Buddha taught to calm the agitations of the mind and so develop awareness and attention to the details of our lives, to mind the gaps and close the chasm between ignorance and our true nature, and all of reality. Using words of Master Dogen and the poet Leonard Cohen, senior monastic Rakusan brings us the ancient teachings into the light of our daily lives.
37 min

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