Every Day Is A Good Day
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/28/26 - This teaching from ancient master Yunmen calls us not to ignore the strife around us, but to...
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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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Actualizing Buddha Ancestors
Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - ZMM - 6/27/26 - Practicing zazen, seeing into our minds, is what makes it possible to loosen the grip and let...
Impermanence And Ease
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/25/26 - Resistance to change often underlies our suffering and shows up in feelings such as anxiety,...
Not Really Separate At All
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/21/26 - The sense of separation — from life, from happiness, from anything we feel apart from — lies...
Oh! Really?
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 6/14/26 - The Buddha said, “All things are ultimately liberated; they have no abiding place.” In this ko...
Contemplating Buddha
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 6/14/26 - What is already present is the authentic form of Buddha, not different than your own body and...
Living in Inquiry
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 6/13/26 - When inquiry is alive within us, every thought we think can end with a question mark — perhaps...
The Inner Wilderness
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/7/26 - How Buddhism uses the term "attachments" is often misunderstood as being something bad, which...
Dharma Encounter with Shugen Roshi
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 5/31/26 - Mundane truth, enlightened truth, from the beginning are all together one. But there are snags tha...
Does That Person See It, Or Not?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 5/30/26 - Zen is filled with koan stories asking this question: do they see it or not? Do you see “it”? Shug...
What Can’t Be Fought For
Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - ZMM - 5/29/26 - The true self, what is that? It was the question put to Monk Ming by the sixth ancestor and op...
A Rice Cake. Just A Rice Cake.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - 5/28/26 - Going beyond our ancestors, going further than they could go, is the task of every student of the dharma...
Mind and Environment
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/24/26 - Shugen Roshi asks: “When you’re thinking of the thinking mind, what do you find there? And w...
Fusatsu: Right Speech
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/21/26 - Are the words you are about to speak true? Verify them first through your own experience. Ar...
Dark to the Mind, Radiant to the Heart
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 5/3/26 - This talk explores what Hongzhi calls the “mysterious pivot,” a sudden shift that disrupts thin...
Calling and Responding
Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - ZMM - 5/17/26 - What is your complete expression of Buddha Mind? Shoan Sensei takes up this question in explor...
The Spring’s Knee-Deep Mud
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/10/26 - Who fears the spring row’s knee-deep mud? This line from Hongzhi’s poem underscores the chal...
The Sanctuary Is Built Here
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/3/26 - The middle way between indulgence and denial is not obvious for any of us beginning on our pr...
Fusatsu: Unsurpassable Giving
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei – ZCNYC – 4/5/26 – The Buddha began with generosity—dāna pāramitā—as the ground of all practice...
Dharma Encounter: Gathering Life Energy
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 4/26/26 - The energy of our lives is something that we tend to take for granted, but in spiritual practice i...