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
Fusatsu: New Years’ Good News
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/31/24 - All conditioned things are dukkha, but we are not bound by them nor are we limited by them. The Noble Path, which has come to us through others, works…
00:35:10 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
Langye’s Mountains and Rivers
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 12/30/24 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 100 - How does the purity of Buddha Nature still give rise to all the havoc, confusion, and suffering in our human lives? In…
00:43:54 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
Deeper Than Words
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/22/24 - How do we practice ideals such as “morality” and “equality” and bring them to life? Invoking Wendell Berry’s text The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and…
00:39:49 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
Celebrating the Buddha’s Enlightenment
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi ZMM - 12/08/24 - Having exhausted all the methods that were available at the time, Shakyamuni Buddha turned toward a new path, a simple seclusion and inward turning of m…
00:41:46 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
Seeing Our True Identity
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/01/24 - From Master Wu-Men's Gateless Gate, Case 12 Jui-yen Calls "Master" - How does our sense of self come about? Does it happen automatically and, if so, i…
00:45:54 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
The Supreme Method
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 11/23/24 - Letting go of our grasping mind is wisdom itself. Yet it’s difficult to understand “wisdom” as a quality we embody, in part because wisdom is devoid o…
00:54:14 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
Your True Home
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 11/20/24 - Drawing from the wisdom chapter of Shantideva’s teachings and other sources, Shugen Roshi brings out the subtle distinctions between craving-as-a-hind…
00:48:51 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Karmic Actions and Conditions
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 11/17/24 - We often ask ourselves in response to outside conditions: what do we do now? Our typical reactive, worrying state is often laying on extra trouble as we sea…
00:44:19 |
Sun 17 Nov 2024
Jukai Ceremony at ZMM, November 2024
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 11/10/24 - Shugen Roshi officiates the November 2024 Ango Jukai ceremony at Zen Mountain Monastery. Today, four students formally receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts…
01:07:23 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
Advice of the Caterpillar
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 11/03/24 - Koans often come from literary sources, and MRO founder Daido Roshi brought us this dialogue from Alice’s adventures in "Through the Looking Glass" to…
00:46:18 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
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