With a deep breath of relief and remembrance, we have added more in-person events while keeping many online as well, including recurring Zazen, Liturgy and Study Groups, Affinity Groups, and other offerings on Sangha Practice Groups and Zazen and Liturgy Online. Please refer to the Programs Page (see below) for updated information on programs at ZMM and ZCNYC, as well as webcasts and online retreats. ZMM’s daily zazen and Sunday programs are accessible through Livestream and for in-person activities through our Calendly page for (weekly zazen) and the Programs Page for Sunday services. You can also keep up with us through our blog at MountainRecord.org and our podcast as well as social media. If you are not currently receiving our weekly newsletter, you can add your name to either of our mailing lists here. Thank you for your practice!

The monastics and residents of the Monastery and Fire Lotus Temple are continuing to maintain our Zen training schedule as usual. Each week we are livestreaming the Monastery's Sunday morning program in addition to daily zazen Tuesday evening through Saturday evening. Additionally, you'll find below a list of daily opportunities for group practice over Zoom.

In practicing Buddhadharma we turn inwards and find the calm and clear understanding that is within each of us. We turn outwards to offer lovingkindness, patience and compassion to every being. In times like this, many people will feel anxiety and uncertainty about the present and the future, and may express that in both inspiring and troubling ways. As practitioners, let's use our circumstances to take refuge in the Three Treasures, drawing on our trust in the Dharma and the essential desire in each of us for happiness and well-being. Each morning we chant the Four Immeasurables and we encourage you to join us by adding them to your morning liturgy. As each of us gives voice to these profound blessings, we come together through space and time, united by our shared intention.

May all beings be free from suffering and the root of suffering
May all beings know happiness and the root of happiness
May all beings live in sympathetic joy, rejoicing in the happiness of others
May all beings live in equanimity, free from passion, aggression and delusion.

Please feel free to contact us at (845) 688-2228 or registrar@dharma.net

All of the following programs are offered by suggested donation. Thank you for your support.

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Zazen & Liturgy Online

Connect with the Monastery and fellow home-dwelling practitioners for daily meditation, talks, and liturgy services.

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Sangha Practice Groups

Learn about practice, discussion, and affinity groups taking place regularly over Zoom.

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Teachers & Seniors Online

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Upcoming Programs

Spring Ango 2023

March 5 - May 28, 2023

Ango is a wonderful time to work toward making our lives more unified with practice. In addition to practicing moment-to-moment awareness in your daily activities, what other ways can you bring yourself into contact with the dharma during the day? Let this question guide you as you formulate your commitments for the training period...

Beginning Instruction on Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

March 26, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

Beginning instruction in zazen and orientation to the Monastery on Sunday mornings is back again! ALL Participants must be fully vaccinated and boosted. Either take a rapid test in the parking lot before entering, or wear a mask while you are on the grounds at all times (lunch can be eaten outside or in the […]

Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

March 26, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

For now, this program is open only to those who have previously received beginning instruction in meditation at the Monastery or at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn. Participants must be fully vaccinated and boosted. Either take a rapid test in the parking lot before entering, or wear a mask while you are on the grounds. […]

One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive—March 2023

with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi and Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

March 27 - April 2, 2023

ONLINE

Welcome to One Continuous Thread, a way to bring elements of a formal zazen intensive into your daily life. You will be able to view and participate in parallel with ZMM's Sesshin via live webcast. We've designed this retreat keeping in mind the unique circumstances that each person finds themselves in...

Founding Sesshin

with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi and Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

March 27 - April 2, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

Note: If you have not attended sesshin at Zen Mountain Monastery you must have a pre-sesshin interview, so please call or email the Training Office to schedule at (845) 688-2228, or registrar@dharma.net. Characterized by silence and deep introspection, sesshin is recommended to anyone who is sincerely interested in experiencing […]

Half-Day Sit (online)

April 1, 2023

ONLINE

A three-hour practice of connecting with the still point, making space in which to find the heart-mind and body, and a place to take refuge. Let us sit deep into our well and show up from a place of love and courage—the two things that[…]

Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

April 2, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

Undivided Activity—Ango Art Practice

with Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

April 7 - May 19, 2023

ONLINE

Everything we encounter provides the opportunity to meet the creative source. It is right here in ourselves always standing at the gateway of awe. It will take a risk, to be sure, a risk whose name we may know as surrender, as dying to the known, as we are welcomed to our true home[…]

Death and Resurrection: The Practice of the Recognition of the Clear Light of Awareness in the Face of our Inevitable Death

with Lama Justin von Bujdoss

April 7, 2023

ZCNYC

We are delighted to welcome Lama Justin for this Good Friday dharma talk at Fire Lotus Temple, where he will share reflections from the Vajrayana tradition on death, dying, the bardo—the intermediate state between this life and the next—and the practice of Clear Light meditation a meditation that can be taken up here and now […]

Introduction to Zen Training Weekend

with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, Mn. Shoan Ankele and Mn. Gokan Bonebakker

April 7 - 9, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

Are you new to meditation or Zen Buddhist practice? Have you read books about Zen, or been doing meditation on your own? Do you think you’d like to study with a teacher? Designed for those new to Zen or formal Zen training, this introductory retreat allows you to immerse yourself in Zen practice and experience […]

Working with our Humanity: Engaging the Expression of Kleshas and the Spaciousness Within Them.

with Lama Justin von Bujdoss

April 8, 2023

Zen Center of New York City

In this day-long retreat we will explore methods through which the intensity of our kleshas, the reactive emotions that contribute to our experience of suffering, can be brought directly into meditation and similarly, how the view of the various forms of mediation that we will be exploring from the Dzogchen, Mahamudra and Zhije Vajrayana […]

Beginning Instruction on Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

April 9, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

April 9, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

Just So—An Introduction to Mahamudra Teachings

with Judy Lief

April 13 - 16, 2023

Mahamudra challenges us to take a fresh view of the world. It is a meditation tradition within tantric Buddhism that points to the nature of awareness itself, elevating our ordinary perception to the level of the sacred. In this view, all experiences arise from a mind that is naturally vast, empty, and luminous […]

Ten Ox-herding Pictures: Stages in a Spiritual Journey

with Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

April 15, 2023

Zen Center of New York City

The spiritual path comes alive pictorially in the Zen tradition's Ten Ox-herding pictures. This series of images portrays a young ox-herder whose quest leads them to discover, subdue and train a wild ox—their own heart and mind—in a process of transformation. The ox represents awakening, and the herder is you—the meditator, the seeker—encountering the gritty […]

Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

April 16, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

True Refuge Week: Self-Directed Intensive Practice for MRO Students

with MRO Teachers and Senior Staff

April 18 - 23, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

All of Buddhist practice is leading us toward our true homecoming: the discovery that this very life, this very heart-mind and body, can be the source of our deepest fulfillment. Through training, and sincere, well-directed effort, as well as the support of a conducive environment, we can find that the refuge we seek is already here…

Nuts & Bolts of Zen Practice (April)

with Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

April 21, 2023

ONLINE

A continuing series which explores Liturgy, taking up the teachings of the Heart Sutra. As usual there will be ample time for more questions and your thoughts you would like to share in this exploration. These sessions are open to anyone, and designed specifically with Practicing Members in mind. Our online programs are offered by […]

Meeting Buddhas and Bodhisattvas: Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

with Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei and Ikumi Kaminishi

April 22, 2023

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art Collection Gallery

Have you ever wondered how to tell the difference between the images of the buddhas and bodhisattvas? Or, what does it mean that there are so many identities of buddhas and bodhisattvas in the first place? Shakyamuni Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, Maitreya Buddha to name a few, and if we include bodhisattvas, the list is extensive. […]