Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
Shugen Roshi has been in full time monastic training since the mid-1980's. He received dharma transmission from Daido Roshi in 1996. He has been the Head of the Mountains and Rivers Order since Daido Roshi's passing in 2009 and is the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2025
Fall 2025 Ango Opening Talk – “The Way of Everyday Life: Genjokoan” – Shugen Roshi
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/31/25 - Shugen Roshi introduces the theme of the MRO 90-day Fall Ango 2025 training period, "The Way of Everyday Life: Genjokoan."
00:50:19 |
Sun 31 Aug 2025
What Limits Your Freedom?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/30/25 - While many people search outside for the causes of feeling constrained and limited, the radical step toward transformation is to turn the light around.…
00:37:12 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Turning Words: A Wood Buddha
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/24/25 - What is it to pass through something? Or to not pass through? In koan practice this image is utilized over and over again, and here a buddha made of wo…
00:48:36 |
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Turning Words: A Gold Buddha
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/23/25 - The discriminating function of our minds has many benefits, and at the same time we need to reveal how it can become weaponized against ourselves. The …
00:50:49 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Turning Words: A Mud Buddha
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/20/25 - In the language of koans, we are invited to step right into the embodied experience of the koan, which in this case is a Buddha made of mud which canno…
00:44:19 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Rejoicing in Virtue
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/17/25 - Shugen Roshi reminds us that mind is the basis of all conflicted action, and so it is to mind that we direct our aspirations and intentions to bring go…
00:49:37 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
This World, Your Buddha Field
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/10/25 - Living within the present world, surrounded by many acts of cruelty and hatred, each of us is called to recognize, liberate, and transform samsara as w…
00:47:51 |
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Compassion Starts in the Mind
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/3/25 - How do we meet our conscious mind, skillfully? Mind training offers us ways to see our self-centered thinking habits, meeting our minds directly, and us…
00:46:06 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
Offerings to the Land Deity
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/29/25 - Shugen Roshi asks, “If all things are empty with no inherent existence, then how do things come into being?” In other words, how are we creating our wo…
00:40:26 |
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Abiding Well In The Mountains
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - Saturday 6/28/25 - How do we make the dharma our own? In Zen training, we have to fully let go of the expectations and ideas of what it will look like once we re…
00:42:38 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
The Perfection of What Is
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - Wednesday 6/25/25 - Shugen Roshi explores a passage from the Prajnaparamita Sutra and its emphasis on the “unconditioned” nature of things. When this is realized…
00:49:40 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Returning to the Great Earth
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/22/25 - Getting caught up in the many distractions that we encounter daily contributes to our confusion, our sense of overwhelm. How do we cultivate practice i…
00:44:47 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Dharma Language & Dharma Study
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/15/25 - We acquire language as we become more conscious of what surrounds us—people and things and concepts—and the language we learn to use is inextricable fr…
00:46:42 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Not Clinging To Anything
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/1/25 - Why does Buddhism so emphasize life and death? When we begin to see the depths of our attachments to this “self," we have to face the jarring fact that …
00:44:41 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
What Do You Use For Food?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/24/25 - What is real strength? Putting to good use all of our obstructions and old habits, we can cultivate our ability to meet whatever arises with pliancy, f…
00:47:59 |
Sat 24 May 2025
Possibilities
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/21/25 - Becoming aware of our minds’ potential, it often seems like we’re causing ourselves more trouble, because we get caught up in the same old patterns and…
00:45:20 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Awakening to Forms, See the Mind
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/11/25 - The connection between the creative process and the Dharma is an important entranceway to deepening our Zen practice. Engaging creative expression as a…
00:42:53 |
Sun 11 May 2025
The Language of Buddhist Study
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/4/25 - How we take up the Dharma includes how we study, using words to go beyond words and concepts. How we see words being used in the world should give us an…
00:46:31 |
Sun 04 May 2025
Dharma Encounter: Teacher-Student Relationship
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 4/27/25 - How do we work skillfully with the teacher-student relationship in Zen training? What do we create with it in our minds? Working with a teacher, how ca…
01:15:51 |
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Is It Mine, Or Yours?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 4/26/25 - All beings have buddha nature and the capacity to fully realize ourselves; this is a fundamental teaching of the Dharma. Shugen Roshi explores the real…
00:46:19 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
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