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
The Butterfly Effect
Degna Chikei Levister, MRO Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 8/25/24 - Chikei talks about the subtle shift in perspective brought about through her Zen practice and the big difference that has made in her…
00:50:05 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
Pivoting On Suffering
Prabu Gikon Vasan, Senior Lay Practitioner - 8/18/24 - The Buddha’s early teachings often focus on the nature of suffering to help us become aware of the ways that this state is created by our though…
00:30:28 |
Sun 18 Aug 2024
Nothing Outside
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - 7/26/24 - Delving into a 13th century Indian mystic’s poem on the experience of the divine, and the Lankavatara Sutra, a foundational sutra of the early Zen path, Shoan O…
00:46:08 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
Seeking Nothing
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 7/25/24 - Gokan explores the third of the All Inclusive Practices of Bodhidharma’s Two Entrances: seeking nothing. - Our longings and …
00:30:33 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
Allowing Death to Teach Us How To Live
Rev. Trudi Jinpu Hirsch-Abramson - ZMM - 7/21/24 - Rev. Jinpu offers her engaging stories about the practice of grief, aging, dying and living in the now. An ordained Buddhist priest and chaplain, Ji…
00:51:44 |
Sun 21 Jul 2024
A Path That Can’t Be Named
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 6/27/24 - Yunen explores the fundamental instructions on zazen from Dogen and the spiritual path of a Buddhist practitioner. To help us develop our und…
00:28:12 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
Living Dharma In Ease And Joy
Chimyo Simone Atkinson, Sensei - ZMM - 6/9/24 - Chimyo Sensei explores the essential practice of zazen, and our genuine capacity to realize Buddha Nature. This practice can challenge us to face our o…
00:47:10 |
Sun 09 Jun 2024
Dance of Wind and Grasses
Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 4/28/24 - How can we practice meeting physical pain and discomfort of all kinds? In this talk, senior student Shinji Hoffman invites us to consider …
00:28:57 |
Sun 28 Apr 2024
Fazhen’s Awakening
Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 4/25/24 - Yosha introduces us to lay woman Fazhen (12th Century) with the story of her awakening.
00:39:58 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
A Soft Place To Land
Degna Chikei Levister, MRO Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 1/28/24 - Chikei offers a glimpse of why she came to Zen Practice, and why she has stayed—this commitment to living a life in harmony.
00:36:57 |
Sun 28 Jan 2024
The Real Way Circulates Everywhere
Michelle Seigei Spark, Lay Senior MRO Student - ZMM - 1/26/24 - Inspired by Master Dogen's writings on zazen as well as Daido Roshi's teachings, Seigei presents us with what can bring us to meditatio…
00:52:39 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Working with Shame
Maureen Jisho Ford, Senior Lay Student - ZMM, Friday 11/17/23 - "We mistake the story for who we are." Senior lay student Jisho gives a very personal talk about her experience with shame.
00:48:25 |
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Taking Refuge
Chris Yudo Abraham - ZMM - 8/23/2023 - Yudo speaks about the practice of taking refuge, or "throwing ourselves unreservedly" into something, using examples from his own life. What do we take refuge i…
00:36:08 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
Waves of the Ocean
Michelle Seigei Spark, Lay Senior MRO Student - ZMM - 6/23/2023 - Senior lay student Seigei talks about the challenges and opportunities of working with the conditions in which we find ourselves.
00:46:22 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Stayin’ Alive
Robert Rakusan Ricci, Senior Monastic - ZMM 6/21/2023 - What is it in me that wants to persist? Is that what being "me" is? Throughout our lives so much in our culture is teaching us to desire; reinf…
00:24:59 |
Wed 21 Jun 2023
Is This Your Last Sesshin?
Maureen Jisho Ford, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery - 04/28/2023 - Senior lay student Jisho gives a lively talk about her experience with sickness, death, and letting go of that which is …
00:45:35 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
The Dharma Is You
Judy Lief - Zen Mountain Monastery - 04/16/2023 - Judy Lief, in speaking about our Buddha Nature, gives her humble, direct commentary on the Four Immeasurables**... How do we practice them within our…
00:50:40 |
Sun 16 Apr 2023
Lady Midnight
Robert Rakusan Ricci, Senior Monastic - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 01/26/2023 - Rakusan delivered this talk in the midst of a sesshin retreat, asking, what is the relationship between…
00:34:07 |
Thu 26 Jan 2023
Black Buddhism and Black Liberation
Rima Vesely-Flad - Zen Mountain Monastery, via Zoom, 09/20/2022 - A seminar with author and teacher Rima Vesely-Flad exploring the themes and questions presented through her research on the distincti…
01:34:35 |
Sat 01 Oct 2022
Ceaseless Becoming
Ely Seiryu Rayek, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday 09/28/2022 - Seiryu offers his understanding of the dharma of everyday life, dependent co-origination; the practical…
00:21:51 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
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