Here you can find in-person events and online programs 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 on the Programs Page for Sunday services, and Visiting the Monastery for weekdays. 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

Looking to make contact with the Monastery, teachers, and senior students? Click below to submit questions or schedule a meeting.

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Upcoming Programs

Ango Art Practice: Intimate Expression (online)

with Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

September 1 - November 10, 2023

ONLINE

When you know yourself, you know intimate action. Thus, Buddha ancestors can thoroughly actualize this intimate heart and intimate language. “Intimate” means close and inseparable. There is no gap. Intimacy embraces Buddha ancestors. It embraces you. It embraces the self. It embraces action. It embraces […]

Karenji Choir

with Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei and Justin Ward Weber

September 3 - December 17, 2023

ZCNYC

This Fall we're starting a choir! Yes, that is right, the Karenji Choir. We'll be working with a musical setting of a short text from Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva as a way of joining our voices together and cultivating an attitude of goodwill for all beings. […]

Fall Ango 2023

September 3 - November 19, 2023

Ango is our three-month training intensive that takes place each spring and fall, a rich and sustained opportunity to bring our practice more in tune with our daily lives. This season's theme will be Intimate Words. The theme will be brought out through readings, talks, mondos, as well as personal and group study. In addition […]

Earth Awareness: “The Week” with sangha at ZMM

with MRO Sangha

September 24 - October 8, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

During Fall ango 2023 we are offering ways to the climate crisis from a place of community empowerment: MRO students will facilitate “The Week,” a three-part series on facing the current climate crisis and deciding how to respond with others. You can watch a 2-minute trailer of “The Week” here, or even sign up […]

Beginning Instruction on Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

September 24, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

Beginning instruction in zazen and orientation to the Monastery on Sunday mornings is back again! Participants for the day must take a rapid test before entering any buildings unmasked (please bring your own test); vaccination and boosters are suggested but not required. […]

Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

September 24, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

This registration is for returning visitors who have already received beginning instruction in meditation at the Monastery or at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn. Participants for the day must take a rapid test before entering any buildings unmasked (please bring your own test); vaccination and boosters are suggested but not required. […]

Mountains and Rivers Sesshin

with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei and Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

September 25 - October 1, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

Characterized by silence and deep introspection, sesshin is recommended to anyone who is sincerely interested in experiencing intensive Zen training. We wake up each day before dawn to begin a schedule that includes 7 to 10 hours of zazen...

One Continuous Thread: Home Practice Intensive—September 2023

with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei and Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

September 25 - October 1, 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...

Born as the Earth

September 26 - October 10, 2023

Zen Center of New York City

As part of our Fall ango environmental awareness practice we are offering “The Week,” a three-part series on facing the current climate crisis and deciding how to respond with others. The Temple will host three 90-minute meetings/sessions in-person on 9/26, 10/3 and 10/10 from 7p - 8:30p. After zazen, we will watch a video the first hour followed by 30-minutes of discussion […]

Half-Day Sit (onsite)

with MRO Staff

September 30, 2023

ZCNYC

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 throughout history have been shown are necessary in order to help humanity not […]

Half-Day Sit (online)

September 30, 2023

ONLINE

Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery

October 1, 2023

Zen Mountain Monastery

EcoSattva Training Information Session

October 2, 2023

online

The challenge of ecological crises is all around us—as well as within us. Our practice can support us not only in meeting this difficulty but also healing and transforming it. Sangha members will come together in small groups on a journey to cultivate wisdom, connection, and compassionate action. […]

Introduction to Zen Training Weekend

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

October 6 - 8, 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 […]