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...
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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, generati...
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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...
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...
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...