Recent Teacher Talks
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 35
- Years Active
- 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
Dignified Still Point
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 6/15/25 - Here we are sincerely and directly acting on this urge to be still -quiet. We will most likely sense that THIS is a good desire—it seems to settle and gr…
00:39:41 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Steadying, Staying, Befriending
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 6/14/25 - In this talk Hojin speaks of this gentle approach with ourselves called Maitrī in Sanskrit or Metta in Pali. Essentially the same concept, both refer to …
00:31:43 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Luckily No One is Looking?
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 6/8/25 - Hojin takes up one of her favorite koans from The Hidden Lamp: Lingzhao Pang’s Helping. How free and generous it is when we are not keeping score, watchin…
00:42:54 |
Sun 08 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
Indra’s Net With Entanglements
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 6/1/25 - Hojin Sensei invokes the Diamond Net of Indra, a vast net on whose every node hangs a glittering diamond-On the surface of this diamond, every other diamo…
00:40:01 |
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
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
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
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
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
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