The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast
The Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) is a Western Zen Buddhist lineage established by the late John Daido Loori Roshi and dedicated to sharing the dharma as it has been passed down, generation to generation, since the time of Shakyamuni Buddha. Zen Mountain Monastery, the main house of the Mountains and Rivers Order, is one of the West’s most respected Zen Buddhist monasteries and training centers. Nestled in New York’s beautiful Catskill Mountains, the Monastery draws its strength from the ancient tradition of Buddhist monasticism. Since 1980, the Monastery has offered spiritual practitioners traditional and innovative ways to engage the dharma through a wide range of retreats and residential programs that unfold within the context of authentic, full-time Zen monastic training. The Zen Center of New York City: Fire Lotus Temple is the city branch of Zen Mountain Monastery. Supporting home practitioners in the metropolitan area, ZCNYC offers varied practice opportunities within the Eight Gates training matrix.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 130
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Path of Enlightenment: Stage 2 – Finding the Traces of the Ox
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 2/2/25 - The spiritual journey is a path of discovering our true nature. The Ten Ox Herding pictures are a pictorial depiction of the training we each have to put …
00:46:52 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
Zhaozhou’s “Mu” and Skillful Compassion
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/26/25 - The sole purpose of a koan is to help the student experience their true nature. As a skillful means, a koan helps us see where we are clinging, and the…
00:45:29 |
Sun 26 Jan 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
Who Let the Dog Out?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/25/25 - Like a gourd in water—push it down and it turns over and pops back up—we all begin practice easily unsettled. Shugen Roshi looks at this koan of Zhaozh…
00:45:48 |
Sat 25 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
It’s Not About The Dog
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/22/25 - From Master Wu-Men's Gateless Gate - Zhaozhou's "Mu" - Within the realm of words much can be known, but how do we study the realm which is inexpressibl…
00:47:11 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Bodhisattva’s Living Legacy
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 1/19/25 - Invoking the life and words of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Shugen Roshi celebrates his "living legacy": the power of love and its manifestation in the Belo…
00:45:13 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
At the Heart Of Your Path
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/12/25 - Gateless Gate, Case 16: The Bell's Sound and the Priest's Robe - We have these forms in Zen for meditation, for liturgy, for taking a meal and for prac…
00:38:58 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
Noble Path Talk – Ikyo Love
Ikyo Love, MRO Student - 1/12/25 - "Making it my own."
00:27:41 |
Sun 12 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
Joshu’s Stone Bridge
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 1/5/25 - From the Blue Cliff Record, Case 52 - Entering the new year, we can reflect on how we are holding our practice, how it supports our connection with others, an…
00:38:51 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
Path of Enlightenment: Stage 1 – Searching for the Ox
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 1/5/2025 - What are we seeking? The spiritual journey is a path of discovering our true nature. The Ten Ox Herding pictures are a pictorial depiction of the Zen tr…
00:47:28 |
Sun 05 Jan 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
Fusatsu: Wholehearted Bodhisattva Vows
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - 12/30/24 - This Fusatsu talk was given on the evening before New Years Eve to the sangha at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn on how practice is not linear and moves in a circ…
00:43:40 |
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
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
Noble Path Talk – Kien Martin
Kien Martin, MRO Monastic - ZCNYC - 12/29/24 - A Path of Faith, Doubt and Determination.
00:28:11 |
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
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
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