Other MRO Talks
These talks were given at either Zen Mountain Monastery or Zen Center of New York City by visiting teachers, dharma holders, and senior students. These talks are given from the speaker's personal experience of practice and the dharma and are offered in the spirit of encouragement and support.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 70
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Deepening of Faith, Doubt & Determination
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 8/22/25 - As we practice over time, we mature in our practice and if we’re lucky we can also experience and appreciate that ripening in each other. Sharing the words…
00:48:33 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
A Coin Before It’s Stamped
Prabu Gikon Vasan, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 8/21/25 - Understanding the many negations in the Heart Sutra, and the concept of “emptiness,” requires effort and faith. It asks us to examine what we t…
00:29:32 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Letting Go of Being Right
Suzanne Taikyo Gilman, Senior Monastic - ZCNYC - 7/27/25 - Letting go of being right can be one of the hardest things to do. What happens if, instead of defending our views, we notice the suffering u…
00:24:59 |
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Invoking A Vast Love
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 7/26/25 - Invoking is more than simply using words. It is bringing forth all of our life energy and intention in a way that is transformative. Liturgy can be an entr…
00:39:30 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Practicing the Path: Right Intention
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 7/24/25 - The wisdom aspects of the Eightfold Path include Right Intention, or Right Thought. What is it to take full responsibility for our lives by practicing ou…
00:40:03 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Pure Perception
Michelle Seigei Spark, Lay Senior MRO Student - ZMM - 7/20/25 - Our six senses can be an entry to the whole entire mind of practice and provide us direct dharma teachings of the world in which we exi…
00:37:59 |
Sun 20 Jul 2025
Practicing the Path: Right Understanding
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 7/13/25 - Many people describe a deep sense of “being home” when they arrive at a practice center. But how can we make the Noble Path our true home—wherever we are…
00:43:07 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Letting Go and Allowing In
Sarah Taisho Sands, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 7/13/25 - See the thought, acknowledge it, let it go. Almost everyone knows this central teaching on how to work with thoughts and ideas we get attach…
00:39:16 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Compassionate Interdependence
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 7/6/25 - The teachings of dependent origination tell us that all that arises does so with all of reality: "because of this, that, and because of that, this." In stud…
00:45:44 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
Practicing Doubt
Suzanne Taikyo Gilman, Senior Monastic - ZMM - 6/27/25 - Doubt in some early Buddhist sutras carried a negative connotation, as doubt of the truth of the Dharma itself, and yet Great Doubt has become…
00:31:34 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Right Speech
Joel Sansho Benton, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 6/26/25 - How do we practice Right Speech, and how do we practice mindfulness in our everyday language? We use language all the time, often reacting to …
00:33:48 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Silent Illumination
Dr. Rebecca Li - ZMM - 6/8/25 - This talk from visiting Dharma teacher Rebecca Li explores Silent Illumination, a practice where stillness and clarity are cultivated simultaneously through the proces…
00:57:17 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
Entering the Gate of Wonder
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 5/23/25 - Gates of entry are enticing and sometimes overwhelming to enter, but we can gather our courage and bring ourselves forward to experience the world which is…
00:38:01 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Relaxing Completely
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 5/22/25 - When we can see how we use our minds, we can see where our life is really happening. As we enter into practice and continue to relax into our zazen, we d…
00:30:24 |
Thu 22 May 2025
Feeding Your Demons
Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer - ZMM - 5/18/2025 - This talk from dharma teacher Lopön Karla was offered at the conclusion of the weekend retreat. Feeding your Demons brings an 11th century Tibetan pract…
00:32:24 |
Sun 18 May 2025
Being One With: Fusatsu
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 5/9/25 - What is it we wish to cultivate in our lives, to give energy to? Fusatsu is a chance to bring our intentions alive—especially where we have done harm—by t…
00:21:04 |
Fri 09 May 2025
In Darkness It Is Most Bright
Suzanne Taikyo Gilman, Senior Monastic - ZCNYC - 4/27/25 - Can we use our direct experience to express what words cannot adequately convey? Using a teaching from zen master Hongzhi, monastic Taikyo t…
00:24:53 |
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Practice Instructions
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 4/13/25 - Gokan Osho takes us through Master Hongzhi's Practice instructions, reminding us to appreciate whatever's arising without grasping.
00:33:15 |
Sun 13 Apr 2025
Gently Working With Distraction
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZCNYC - 3/30/25 - Gokan talks about the ways of distraction. Whether blatant or very subtle, they are us, they are mind, and it's so important to be gentle as we work wi…
00:44:23 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Sincerity in Practice
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 3/27/25 - Master Hongzhou says, "Contact phenomena with total sincerity - not a single atom of dust outside yourself." How we connect with the world of beings and th…
00:44:03 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
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