You Have “No Buddha” Nature
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 10/04/26 - Taking up a segment from Dogen’s fascicle on Buddha Nature, Shugen Roshi illuminates how we...
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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, generati...
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Dharma Encounter: Bringing Our True Nature to Life
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 9/27/26 - Drawing on Dogen’s teaching that all beings are Buddha nature, Hogen Sensei asks how we bring this...
Beyond Yes and No
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/26/26 - Drawing on Dogen’s Bussho, Shugen Roshi explores the seemingly contradictory teachings that...
Fusatsu: Renewing Our Humanity
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZMM - 9/25/26 - In this Fusatsu talk, Hojin Sensei explores renewing our bodhisattva vows and practicing loving-...
Living Beings Are Buddha Nature
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/24/26 - The Buddha realized that all beings are capable of awakening to their true nature. Dogen ech...
Offering This Buddha Nature
Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - ZMM - 9/23/26 - The path of the bodhisattva is not always a convenient one, and probably not as we imagine it...
Transform A Vow Into Action
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/20/26 - What is the cause of suffering, at its root? The bodhisattva vow is to put an end to sufferi...
The Form of Buddha Nature
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/13/26 - This formless Buddha Nature, how does it manifest? Is it large or small? Shugen Roshi quotes...
Jukai at Fire Lotus Temple with Hojin Sensei
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 9/13/26 With Hojin Sensei officiating, four students formally receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts, tak...
Ch’ien and Her Soul are Separated
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/6/26 - Stories are one of the primary ways that we create and re-create suffering in our own minds,...
Ango Opening Talk at ZMM with Shugen Roshi
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 8/30/26 - Shugen Roshi introduces the theme of the MRO 90-day Fall Ango 2026 training period: "Buddha Nature...
Ango Opening Remarks at Fire Lotus Temple
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 8/30/26 - Join Hojin Sensei offering opening remarks to the practitioners at Fire Lotus Temple in Brookl...
Standing in the World
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 8/29/26 - The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is where Buddha gives the four postures: walking, standing, sitting, an...
Inspiration, Aspiration
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/23/26 - Breath is the quality that brings and sustains life--an inspiration of what enters us and pr...
Can you Relate?
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 8/23/26 - Someone asked the teacher: “Are you lonely”? Hojin takes up these senses of loneliness, solita...
Good Qualities
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/22/26 - Many times our practice can be simple and straightforward. But when conditions become advers...
Look! Look!
Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - ZMM - 8/21/26 - What do we aspire to in our practice? What are we looking for? This deeply personal question c...
This Life
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 8/19/26 - What are the qualities that help, or hinder, our ability to enter and sustain practice on a path o...
Just Walking
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZMM - 08/16/2026 - Drawing on Dogen’s Mountains & Rivers Sutra and various texts on walking meditation, Hojin Se...
Effort And Aliveness
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 8/9/26 - With effort in practice, we bring forth our natural aliveness. To do this we make an effort to let...