Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi

The True Dharma Eye, Case #253

Zen Mountain Monastery, 11/4/2018

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

 Zen Center of New York City, 11/4/2018

Hogen Sensei teaches on impermanence , how nothing ever goes exactly according to plan, and how we must all  eventually face ourselves.

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

The Gateless Gate, Case #22

 Zen Center of New York City, 11/3/2018

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

 Zen Center of New York City, 10/31/2018

Hogen Sensei leads the last of three group study sessions on the Jataka Tales, legends about the previous lives of the Buddha found in the Pali Canon. Here he takes up the story of Kassapa, an ascetic whose almost abandons his commitment to non-harming in order to marry the king’s beautiful daughter, Candavati. The discussion focuses on gender, desire, objectification, and what it means to study texts from cultural contexts different than our own.

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei

Zen Mountain Monastery, 10/28/2018

Bowing before a teacher, an image, a sacred space, or a fellow practitioner, are inseparable acts of Buddhist practice. But what does it mean to bow? And is it the same as bowing to an adversary? A mountain? A meal? In this dharma encounter, Zuisei Sensei asks Ango participants to step forward and present their understanding or their questions about bowing. As you’ll hear, many of the exchanges are illuminating and might even challenge your own notions about faith, identification, and gratitude.

Michael Yukon Grody, Monastic

Zen Center of New York City, 10/28/2018

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

Book of Equanimity, Case #36

 Zen Mountain Monastery, 10/27/2018

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei

Zen Mountain Monastery, 10/26/2018

As part of our sangha finishes a three-week pilgrimage in India, Zuisei Sensei draws on the life of the Buddha to evoke the six stages of pilgrimage as they manifest in our own practice.

Michael Chizen Brown, Senior Lay Practitioner

Zen Mountain Monastery, 10/25/2018

Chizen. a senior lay practitioner in the Mountains and Rivers Order, reminds us that we are neither separate from our own bodies nor from the great earth itself.

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic

Zen Mountain Monastery, 10/25/2018

“Take care of your mind”, Gokan urges in this talk, encouraging us to treat the voice of our insecurities with kindness.