The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

June 23, 2019 Aging in the Now
Rev. Trudi Jinpu Hirsch-Abramson
Zen Center of New York City, 6/23/2019
Rev. Jinpu offers her engaging stories about the practice of aging and living in the now. An ordained Buddhist priest and hospice chaplain, Jinpu has over twenty years of experience in practicing and teaching others to care for and celebrate all of life.
47 min
June 16, 2019 Waking Up
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Sensei Zen Mountain Monastery, 6/16/2019
Following her retreat on the Fullness of Emptiness, visiting teacher Zenju Sensei shares with us her path of awakening to what is already within us. She says “We awaken through the challenges of our embodiments in terms of race, class, gender and so on. We awaken through challenges of everyday life. We awaken through what disrupts our lives.”
To learn more about Zenju Sensei’s writings, poetry and teachings, visit zenju.org
43 min
June 16, 2019 How Do You Know?
Danica Shoan Ankele, Monastic
Zen Center of New York City, 06/16/2019
How do you know when practice is really working, and when its not? With teachings from the Diamond Sutra and Shakespeare, Shoan encourages connection with the elemental questions that lead us to practice, to return to them again, exploring some common ways we are derailed. Through the practice of zazen we can re-focus on direct experience of the breath, and learn how it is that we know when practice is working.
42 min
June 09, 2019 The Value of Humility
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 6/09/2019
Concluding a retreat on the Four Immeasurables, this discourse by Shugen Roshi explores an excerpt from Dogen’s Genjokoan to help us deeply understanding the value of humility in bringing forth true confidence. This talk is one of a series on the ten core values which form the basis of the Beyond Fear of Differences work.
46 min
June 09, 2019 My words, My suffering
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 6/9/2019
Starting from a section in the Diamond Sutra that examines the fact that truth is not found in letters, Hogen Sensei explores how zazen helps reveal answers to fundamental questions that cannot be found in scripture, words, or thoughts.
45 min
June 02, 2019 Ch’ien and her Soul are Separated
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 6/02/2019
Gateless Gate, Case 35
This talk explores how we can each live undivided lives along true paths in union with the whole.
45 min
June 02, 2019 Baizhang’s Fox
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 6/2/2019
Book of Serenity, Case 8 In this commentary to a well-known koan, Hogen Sensei explores the role of zazen and insight in seeing through, transforming, and being liberated from karma while being in its midst. What would it mean to “be free from cause and effect”? And what are the implications of “not ignoring cause and effect”? Whether we’re talking about issues of concentrated power or the subtle play of our minds, there is always space for compassionate action.
48 min
June 01, 2019 Yaoshan’s Discourse
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 6/1/2019
True Dharma Eye, Case 79 Hogen Sensei takes up the case of Yaoshan’s Discourse in Dogen’s Three Hundred Koan Shobogenzo to reflect on the importance of Zazen. This talk reviews two common misperceptions about zazen: “letting it all go” and bypassing what needs to be worked through, and also using Zazen as a meditation practice to dwell on thoughts and missing the opportunity to examine what is the “self”. Referring back to the “thundering silence” demonstrated by Yaoshan, Hogen Sensei offers encouragement that we are already on the path to realize suchness that is beyond speech by just sitting.
40 min
May 28, 2019 Lay Practice
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student Zen Center of New York City, 05/26/2019 Using teachings of Shantideva as a starting point, Yunen explores how lay practice can be a strong, vital, integrated part of training in Zen Buddhist practice, much as the Buddha intended in describing the the sangha as comprised of laypeople and monastics practicing together.
29 min
May 28, 2019 The Child’s Expression is Entrusted To You
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 5/25/2019
Taking up Dogen’s Fascicle Shoaku Makusa, Shugen Roshi explores how our open awareness is like a child’s expression of “refrain from unwholesome action, do wholesome action,” but in practice this seemingly easy instruction is quite difficult. Why? This is the heart of being human and facing the whole of reality of our lives.
46 min

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