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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

Zen Mountain Monastery

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...

Episodes

20 of 159 episodes

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...

46:56Aug 30, 2026

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...

34:48Aug 29, 2026

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...

47:12Aug 23, 2026

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...

40:12Aug 23, 2026

Good Qualities

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 8/22/26 - Many times our practice can be simple and straightforward. But when conditions become advers...

40:43Aug 22, 2026

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...

38:01Aug 21, 2026

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...

44:37Aug 19, 2026

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...

43:12Aug 16, 2026

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...

41:59Aug 9, 2026

Taking Up Mind Training

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 8/2/26 - Koan study can turn our minds inward, showing us where we get stuck in our own habitual tangles and...

38:38Aug 2, 2026

Avian Traces

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - 8/2/26 - “A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies, there is no end to the air.” Following a retr...

42:24Aug 2, 2026

Faith In Our Totally Free Nature

Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - 7/26/26 - In sesshin, the deep work of transformation is held within a supportive container. Yet each of us mu...

39:10Jul 26, 2026

In Silence There Is Illumination

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 7/25/26 - Zazen practice of shikantaza, “just sitting” comes from the Chan practice of Silent Illuminati...

34:10Jul 25, 2026

In Daytime The Sun, At Night The Moon

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 7/12/26 - Ancient masters offer us teachings that speak to us in subtle ways, communicating insights tha...

31:37Jul 12, 2026

Painting the Whole Picture

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 7/5/26 - Celebrating July 4th by looking at the dharma teachings on interdependence, Shugen Roshi lead...

40:46Jul 5, 2026

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...

39:48Jun 28, 2026

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...

43:22Jun 27, 2026

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,...

42:56Jun 25, 2026

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...

49:21Jun 21, 2026

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...

33:17Jun 14, 2026