Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday 03/30/2022 - From Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo (True Dharma Eye), Case 122 - Fayan's Fire God - As practitioners of the Dharma, are we truly on the edge of our practice? Is peace and calm an indicator that we can rest in our accomplishment? Or is this just a transitory experience and there is more to be seen? When we reside firmly in our knowledge and don't step forth to continue inquiring more deeply, what could we be missing?

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 11/18/2021 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 86 - Everyone Has Their Own Light - Hogen Sensei asks us: "how can we talk about enlightenment when there is nothing to understand about enlightenment?". We are inherently enlightened but our conditioning, karma and unskillful ways prevent us seeing it. We should remember that we all have own light and that zazen is the process for cultivating this light.

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 10/24/2021 - Dharma Encounter at the Conclusion of the Harvest Moon Sesshin.

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 10/21/2021 - From the poetry of David Whyte - Hogen Sensei asks us to consider the questions - we all have - that, As David Whyte puts it, "can make or unmake a life." What are they? How do we respond? Can we let them be, let them stay with us? Can we live with them without grasping for answers?

John Daido Loori, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 9/11/2005 The True Dharma Eye, Case #55 There is a music in us, an inner voice which is audible to our teachers, but not always to us. We can’t express this music using other’s words or other’s ways of seeing things. Yet the expression of it is the vital […]

John Daido Loori, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 11/28/2004 Koans of the Way of Reality Religious traditions all over the world have always had to deal with the question of “the source.” If God created the world, then who, or what created God? Is there anything outside of God, outside the universe? It is this mystery […]

John Daido Loori, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 9/27/2003 Koans of the Way of Reality, Case #109 How do we perceive the truth? If we look for it with our eyes and our ears, we’ll miss it. In this talk, Daido Roshi takes up the intuitive nature of expression and understanding, and reminds us, once again, that […]

John Daido Loori, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 6/26/1998 True Dharma Eye, Case #12 Zen points us toward a direct realization of our true nature that surpasses any ideas we might have. In this talk Daido Roshi looks at the path of Zen training, teaching that at every point along the way, our practice is deeply personal […]

John Daido Loori, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 10/5/1995 The Gateless Gate, Case #9 The teachings tell us we’re already perfect and complete. But why don’t we feel that way? Our sense of separation from our perfection is the root of our suffering. The aim of practice is to make this truth alive and real in our […]