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
Reverence for the Three Treasures
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 2/23/25 - At the root of our ancestral lineage is reverence: for the Dharma, for practice and realization, and for all beings. In this talk Shugen Roshi explores…
00:38:27 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Within the Grass Roof Hermitage
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 2/16/25 - Taking up this teaching from Shitou, Gokan delves into how an ancient Zen song-poem can help us find our way in our present …
00:34:27 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
Lesson from a Goddess
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZCNYC - 2/16/25 - When polarization seems to surround us, it's imperative to recognize our own dualistic thinking in its many forms, and cultivate a habit of perspective-s…
00:45:35 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
The Power Of Stillness
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZCNYC - 2/15/25 - When the heart becomes heavy, can we see how our minds tend to run in circles? Seeing this clearly we can have space to stop, breathe, and return to stil…
00:29:09 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
The Bodhisattva’s World
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 2/9/25 - A timely reminder from Shoan Osho that a bodhisattva is one who interrupts the cycle of samsara, to stop creating and perpetuating greed, anger and ignoranc…
00:39:54 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
Meeting Every Moment With Lovingkindness
Suzanne Taikyo Gilman, Senior Monastic - ZCNYC - 1/26/25 - We all feel vulnerable and frightened when external circumstances change too fast and nothing feels certain. The Buddha guided his early com…
00:35:43 |
Sun 26 Jan 2025
Fish Enjoy Water, Humans Enjoy the Dao
Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 1/24/25 - What is enjoyment of being within our element, such as fish enjoying water? All suffering comes from the activity of the mind, whereas the m…
00:37:14 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Gentle and Strong
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Dharma Holder - 1/23/25 - The dharma song of Shitou describes the simplicity possible in the mind of practice. With this settled awareness we can see how habits are formed and …
00:34:45 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
The Practice of True Reality
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Dharma Holder - 1/11/25 - Freeing ourselves of the suffering born of strong emotions, how do we keep the heart open and able to feel without overwhelm or shutting down? And how…
00:21:27 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Space Beyond Knowing
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 12/29/24 - On a liberative path, we know we want to feel better but the enormity of the task, and the continuous “undoing” that it promises, can give pause. Shoan Os…
00:38:23 |
Sun 29 Dec 2024
How Are We Doing Right Now?
Prabu Gikon Vasan, Senior Lay Practitioner - ZMM - 12/28/24 - In the Buddha’s early sutras there are teachings which encourage an honest assessment of our state of being, no matter what the circumsta…
00:30:03 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Everything is in the Heart
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 12/15/24 - A poem by Zen monastic hermit Ryokan brings inspiration for this talk from Shoan Osho. Ryokan communicated Zen and Buddhist teachings through everyday enc…
00:38:36 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
The Practice of Zen is Zazen
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 12/14/24 - This talk explores how the minimal instructions for Zen practice that have been handed down to us from Dogen Zenji encourag…
00:32:54 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
What Is Peaceful Abiding?
Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 11/22/24 - Exploring the focus of the 90-day training period as “peaceful dwelling,” senior lay student Yosha looks at how we can bring our pre…
00:41:49 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
Practicing in Accord with the Dharma
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 11/17/24 - Continuing with Bodhidharma’s teachings on the "Two Entrances", dharma holder Gokan explores how “all inclusive practice” i…
00:43:46 |
Sun 17 Nov 2024
A Lifetime of Alchemy—Fusatsu Talk
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - 11/15/24 - Our ordinary life experiences are what we work with in practice; “a lifetime of alchemy” as Shoan Osho notes in this Fusatsu talk. This ancient practice gives u…
00:21:53 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
Reverence for Others
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 10/24/24 - Within a poem by the monastic Ryōkan, senior lay student Yunen finds encouragement to practice for the benefit of others, with heartfelt rev…
00:24:49 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Heartbreak and Wholeness
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 10/20/24 - Exploring vow, presence, and contact with the sacred mystery of our precious human lives, Shoan Osho encourages us to see the medicine in how we encounter…
00:41:29 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Face to Face
Chris Yudo Abraham, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 10/13/24 - Before the internet invaded our personal spaces, relationships had a different flavor. Now, we can have most of our relationships with peop…
00:39:00 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Opening to Darkness
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Osho - 9/22/24 - Zenju Osho visited the Monastery for two weeks of teaching and concluded her second retreat, "Opening to Darkness," with this offering of the Sunday Dharma ta…
00:39:20 |
Sun 22 Sep 2024
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