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, generation to generation, since the time of Shakyamuni Buddha. Zen Mountain Monastery, the main house of the Mountains and Rivers Order, is one of the West’s most respected Zen Buddhist monasteries and training centers. Nestled in New York’s beautiful Catskill Mountains, the Monastery draws its strength from the ...
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 4/7/2024 - From Master Wu-men's Gateless Gate, Case 5 - "Hsiang-yen: Person Up a Tree" - How do we discriminate in a way that liberates and doesn't entangle us in the quandaries of duality? Shugen Roshi uses a koan from the Gateless Gate to highlight this question; how can non-duality be the nature of all thing…
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Satsujo Weeps: Total Eclipse of the Heart
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 4/7/24 - From The Hidden Lamp: Collection of Stories of Twenty Five Centuries of Awakened Women - What is grief? Can we respect it? Not fear it? Really let it work us in and through our embodiment allowing its raw ingredients to scour our beautiful hearts into release into the impermanence that is the Buddha Way.…
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Right Essentials: Great Trust, Great Inquiry, Great Commitment
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 4/6/24 - Awakening From Illusion... Is that what we call the practice of the way? For awakening is not a one-time thing, a one-time event. But a continual awareness that needs to be continually maintained. Such maintenance as we well know may be difficult. It’s what we call practice. What supports do we have in o…
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Dharma Encounter: The Five Remembrances
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/31/24 - Shugen Roshi presents the Buddha's teaching on the Five Remembrances (impermanence, aging, illness, death, and karma) and invites his students to offer their own experience, thoughts, questions.... How do we act on and connect to these, both inside ourselves and in our relationships?…
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Gardening in the Dharma World
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/30/24 - From the Koans of the Way of Reality - Xinyang's Sweet Melons - Being on the eve of the funeral of the monastery's beloved gardener, Senior monastic Choke Yukon, Abbot Shugen Roshi presents us, fittingly, with this koan from a collection compiled by the late John Daido Loori the founder of Zen Mountai…
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Fusatsu: Getting to Know the Kleshas
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/29/24 - Teisho during the March Fusatsu at ZMM during Spring Ango 2024 - In the context of our practice of the precepts, the 5th grave precept "Proceed Clearly", Shugen Roshi talks about the kleshas - mental states that cloud the mind- and how we can work with them. (We apologize; the first several minutes of…
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZMM - 3/28/24 - From "The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women" - Hojin Sensei presents a koan of Lingzhao and her father, falling together. How do we fall with someone? How do we accept somebody’s support? And do we ever know that we are helping?…
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Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 3/27/24 - From The Record of the Transmission of the Light, Case 1 - Shakyamuni Buddha - Hogen Sensei reminds us that we are all inherently buddhas and have the ability to realize ourselves in our lifetime.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Mondo: Coming Into Contact
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZCNYC - 3/24/24 - Shugen Roshi offers a teaching on how we come into contact with and into relationship with the world. How do we meet each other? And what can make this so difficult?โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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In Praise of Every Single Thing
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Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 3/24/24 - Shoan Osho unfurls wide the themes of the Spring Ango -- Right Relationship, Gratitude, Interdependence -- by offering a cornucopia of teachings; from the verses of Mahapajapati, Buddha's aunt who raised him, to the 9th century Chinese master Xuefeng, bringing in her own teachers' words, along with Ross G…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 3/17/24 - From The True Dharma Eye, Case 148 - Dongshan's 'Teachings of the Insentient" - What does it mean to realize the true nature of mind? If we say that we must "realize it ourselves" then what is it that we can share and communicate with each other? And what's the difference between us and the insentient when …
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/17/24 - Hojin Sensei examines a prevalent feature of our lives: distraction. We call it “monkey mind;” in Sanskrit it’s vikshepa, which means “mental wandering”, being drawn to objects that cause us to lose our ability to remain one-pointedly focused on virtue. She encourages us to be patient with ourselves and…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/10/24 - From Master Wu-men's Gateless Gate, Case 15 - "Tung-shan's Sixty Blows" - What is there to learn directly from our questions, settling into and being with them, without complicating them, without hastily hunting for, or picking and choosing and clinging to, answers?…
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“Right Relationship” – Spring Ango Opening Talk
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/3/24 - Shugen Roshi introduces the theme of the MRO 90-day Spring Ango training period, "Right Relationship with the World; Expressing Gratitude."โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Ango Opening at Fire Lotus Temple
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/3/24 - Hojin Sensei opens this Ango, or Peaceful Dwelling, with a talk about right relationship with the world; expressing gratitude. She shares the Fourth Noble Truth and the Eightfold Path, a path that we’ve been offered. And through this path, how we can find a peace that is deeper than our conditioning.…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/2/2024 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 3 - Master Ma is Unwell - For each of us, how do we create and hold ourselves in that place which opens to the middle way, the bodhisattva way? Where does our intention come from and what does it take to stay with our practice?…
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The Noble Eightfold Path: Right Relationship to the World
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/2/24 - How do we create suffering, and how do we unmake it? What is skillful? What isn’t? Hojin Sensei speaks about the Fourth Noble Truth and the Eightfold Path.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei with The Karenji Choir - ZCNYC - 12/17/2023 - As a part of the Sunday Morning Program at ZCNYC, Hojin Sensei's Karenji Choir performed Santideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva, as arranged and directed by Justin Ward Weber. We wanted to share this performance with you. We hope you enjoy it!…
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Transmission of the Precepts
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi and Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 02/25/2024 - Shugen Roshi introduces Mn Shoan for the first time as "Osho", and uses the occasion to comment on Master Dogen's fascicle on the three pure precepts, pointing out the broad affirmative nature of these moral and ethical teachings, and their active transmission through …
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Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 2/18/24 - Mn Gokan shares his insight about speech; how it manifests, in its various forms, inward and outward, positive, negative, constructive, destructive, truthful, false. Are we aware of its purpose in any given instance? He encourages us to appreciate its power and to practice c…
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Suzanne Taikyo Gilman, Senior Monastic - ZCNYC - 2/18/2024 - Taikyo shares the teachings on the paramitas, focusing on dana paramita - the perfection of giving. She explores the significance of giving selflessly and the myriad ways it manifests, drawing insights from Buddhist teachings and personal experience as inspiration to shift towards compass…
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Awakening to Cause and Effect
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Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 2/11/24 - Inspired by Master Guishan's Admonitions and Encouraging Words, Mn Shoan encourages us to perceive the wealth of opportunity in our own lives to engage in a personal study of cause and effect, and to thus see the reality of interdependence more clearly.…
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Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 2/11/24 - Drawing examples from Dogen and contemporary science, Yunen shares insights from the Buddhist teachings on liberation from suffering, and our relationship with our environment. (We apologize for our malfunctioning microphone during the first few minutes of this talk.)…
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 2/4/24 - Opening with a poem from David Whyte, Hojin Sensei presents a variety of teachings on courage; how we can embrace what we are most terrified of, and stand firm in this constant rebirth. To meet these moments with a "thank you." Now what's true?โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Prabu Gikon Vasan, Senior Lay Practitioner - ZMM - 02/04/2024 Gikon shares some dharma teachings that helped him in his early years of practice. Are the great achievements of humankind only at the surface of our existence? What is and where is our fundamental perfection? What are the hindrances that give rise to suffering? Can Shunryu Suzuki's famo…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM -1/28/24 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 61 - Feng Hsueh's "One Atom of Dust" - How do we tame our judging mind and keep our awareness wide open? How do we live and act in a way that is truly appropriate to reality?โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Degna Chikei Levister, MRO Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 1/28/24 - Chikei offers a glimpse of why she came to Zen Practice, and why she has stayed—this commitment to living a life in harmony.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/27/24 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 60 - A woman student, aptly named “Iron Grindstone” Liu, encounters her teacher Guishan. Can we characterize diligent practice in any particular way? We may be able to look inward but can we look inward and stay all the way through it?…
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The Real Way Circulates Everywhere
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Michelle Seigei Spark, Lay Senior MRO Student - ZMM - 1/26/24 - Inspired by Master Dogen's writings on zazen as well as Daido Roshi's teachings, Seigei presents us with what can bring us to meditation and what can motivate us to continue to meditate.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 1/25/24 - From The Eight Awarenesses of the Enlightened Person - Gokan talks about how we uncover wisdom continuously in our everyday lives.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/24/24 - Shugen Roshi shares a teaching on the Four Immeasurables, emphasizing the significance of participation, engaging with equanimity.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/21/24 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 20 - Dizang's "Nearness" - What inspires us to delve deeper into the heart of our questions; How do we keep open in the darkness and light of not knowing? How do we go about meeting the true self?โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 01/21/2024 - In this talk Yosha takes up the Five Strengths, which come down to us from the Lojong Mind Training of Atisha. These strengths are associated with the virtue or paramita of exertion; also translated as vigor, effort zeal, and diligence. So what does this mean to exert ourselves …
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Celebrating and Reflecting, on MLK
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/14/24 - Shugen Roshi reflects on the life's work, teaching and words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in the context of our times, our lives and our practice here and now. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." —𝑀𝐿𝐾 𝐽𝑟.…
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Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 1/14/24 - Drawing from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 1967 speech, titled, "Where Do We Go From Here?,” Shinji invokes his legacy and commitment to nonviolence and love, and his vision of the beloved community. She shares the importance of our Sangha taking on this work, and how we can do so grounded …
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The Teaching of all Our Ancestors
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Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 1/13/24 - From Robert Aitken Roshi, Intimacy, in Zen, is the essential nature of practice. Gokan reflects on how this intimacy manifests via our zazen.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/7/24 - From the Vimalakirti Sutra - Manjusri Inquires About the Illness - Shugen Roshi speaks about the connection between sickness, in its broadest sense, and compassion in the context of the Four Noble Truths. In light of the barrage of injustices and the multitudes we know are suffering how do we balance o…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/31/23 - Fusatsu Ceremony gives us an opportunity to renew our bodhisattva vows and to atone for any pain and suffering we may have intentionally, inadvertently, or indirectly caused. This is the teisho, on aspects of the Buddhist precepts, that Shugen Roshi offered in the midst of the ceremony on the final e…
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei ZCNYC - 12/31/23 - Fusatsu offers us the opportunity to make fresh again our vows in the world. To recognize and renew the deepest way that we are; our virtuous life, the life of a Buddha that we each are.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/30/2023 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 73 - Caoshan's Fulfillment of Filial Piety - Are we aware of what moves us? And what does it mean to be wholehearted?โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 12/29/2023 - From a verse appearing in Daido Roshi's "The Heart of Being" - Mn. Shoan talks about how we hear the verses of our teachers and ancestors. Some can seem abstract and heady, others can be heart rending and become practical instructions. Or all of that. What do we make of the…
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Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Dharma Holder - ZMM - 12/28/2023 - From The Eight Awarenesses of the Enlightened Person - Gokan talks about Samadhi and how it manifests continuously in our lives.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Encountering Buddha Ancestors
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Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 12/17/2023 - Mn Shoan recounts some of her encounters and experiences during her recent pilgrimage to Japan.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Not Forgetting Right Thought
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Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 12/16/2023 - From The Eight Awarenesses of the Enlightened Person: Not Forgetting Right Thought - Mn Gokan encourages us to get to know our own deep patterns of remembering and forgetting.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Inspiration, Aspiration; Breathing In, Breathing Out
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/10/23 - The verses of Rohini, from the Therīgāthā - Poems of the Early Nuns - Likening our intentional practice to the natural process of respiration; the continuous flow of inspiration in our lives and the aspirations we make out of that, how does that work for each of us? This question is brought to mind w…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/08/23 - Teisho offered during the Fusatsu ceremony commencing Buddha's Enlightenment Vigil.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/3/23 - From Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo (The True Dharma Eye), Case 35 - Touzi's "Harmonizing the Ten Bodies" - What is that common sense of distance, separation, between ourselves and others, and between the many aspects of ourselves? Shugen Roshi encourages us to relinquish our hold; to use the mult…
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 12/3/23 - From "The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women" - Hojin Sensei presents a koan of Lingzhao and her father, falling together. How do we fall with someone? How do we accept somebody’s support? And do we ever know that we are helping?…
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Senjo & Her Soul Are Separated. Which Is the Real One?
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 11/26/23 - Hojin presents a koan based on a Chinese folk tale that takes on the question of identity, and speaks about its relevance for us today.โดย Zen Mountain Monastery
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Gift of Activity, Dependent Arising
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 11/26/23 - From Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo, Case 149 - Xuefeng's Rice Field - In the context of our liberation, our freedom from delusion, can we actually experience a fundamental truth that is not the creation of conditions, i.e. fundamental and unconditional? Shugen Roshi talks about the Buddha's real…
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