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...
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20 of 151 episodesTaking 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...