The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

May 05, 2019 Deshan Carried his Bowls
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 5/05/2019
Gateless Gate, Case 13
How do you direct your attention, how do you use your mind? A Zen koan, in the context of zazen in working with a teacher, can give you a way into the dharma, but each person must grapple with finding their way through. Shugen Roshi explores the spiritual energy of practice as the fuel which drives insight and compassion.
41 min
May 05, 2019 Vimalakirti’s Silence
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 5/5/2019
Blue Cliff Record, Case 84 Hogen Sensei takes up the koan on Vimalakirti’s silence to examine non-duality. When asked about non-duality, what did Vimalakirti say? What would you say? If you answer with silence, you’re missing it.
41 min
April 28, 2019 Dharma Encounter – Selfless Action
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/28/2019
Dharma Encounter
Hogen Sensei explores the question of Wholesome and Unwholesome Action in this lively dharma encounter. Daily encounters present us with questions like: What is the right thing to do? What’s the intention and what karma am I creating? Or simply: where is the “me” in this?

1 hr 5 min
April 28, 2019 Come Closer
Michael Yukon Grody, Senior Monastic Zen Center of New York City, 4/28/2019
Yukon encourages us to move closer to the way things are, not the way we want them to be. This is easy to say but difficult to remember to do. We use the precepts to help guide us.
33 min
April 26, 2019 Opening To Uncertainty
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 04/26/2019

Uncertainty is the foundation of our lives. Can we be at home there? Practicing the limitless qualities of Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity, Not Harming, can help us live our lives as a continuous blossoming into the unknown.
40 min
April 25, 2019 Life and Death – Of Supreme Importance
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/25/2019
True Dharma Eye, Case 29
How is it that we are living and dying in each moment? Hogen Sensei reminds us that turning away from death is turning away from life.
36 min
April 24, 2019 The Value Of Courage, Part 1
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/24/2019

Shugen Roshi speaks about courage. What does it mean in our everyday lives? He begins with the Sutta of Bhikkhuni Uppalavanna, from the early teachings of the Buddha, who sits still in the midst of fear.
43 min
April 23, 2019 The Value Of Courage, Part 2
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/27/2019

Shugen Roshi continues his discourse on courage. The value of courage is one of the ten values of the Beyond Fear of Differences work. In this context he speaks about the aspects of courage being the ability to step forward, to be vulnerable, to tolerate discomfort, and to hold space for new ideas. In this part 2, Shugen Roshi elaborates on the seemingly small, genteel phrase “to tolerate discomfort”. Examining its subtle details takes us into every area of our practice. And we see that it is actually very big indeed.

46 min
April 21, 2019 Embracing Joy and Suffering
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/21/2019

In the midst of the three celebrations for Passover, Easter and the Buddha’s Birthday, Hogen Sensei explores the non-dual nature of joy and suffering.
34 min
April 21, 2019 The Mind Is Already Peaceful
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/21/2019
We can be deceived by our moods and feelings into believing that they are us. Gokan shows us that by simply remembering to return to the moment we can see through our agitations to find our inherent peaceful Mind.
33 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…