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This talk by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, was given on June 22, 2018 during Summer Solstice Sesshin. Referencing Master Hongzhi’s Cultivating the Empty Field, Shugen Roshi addresses samadhi as a factor of meditation that brings forth insight.
Featured Event
Tokudo (Monastic Ordination) Ceremony for Jeffrey Kyokai Onjin Plant at Zen Mountain Monastery, June 10, 2018.
Featured Video
On Sunday, July 8, The Buddhist Poetry Festival at ZMM concluded with a talk by Shugen Roshi, exploring the use of language in Zen koans.
Featured Interview
Hear Margaret Gibson, recorded live at the Buddhist Poetry Festival, in conversation with Zuisei Goddard, Sensei, as they discuss […]
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 8/12/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans (Shinji Shobogenzo), Case 147
Zen Mountain Monastery, 8/05/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans (Shinji Shobogenzo), Case 127
Zen Mountain Monastery, 7/29/2018
Susan Seien Wilder, Lay Senior
Zen Mountain Monastery, 7/26/2018
Margaret Gibson in conversation with Zuisei Goddard, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 7/6/2018
Over the course of four decades, Margaret Gibson has amassed a body of work as rich and varied as it is consistent in aspiration. One reads a poem by Margaret Gibson and comes away having shared in the yearning to see deeply, often exploring how seeing through another’s eyes can expand our sense of self. Continue reading “Margaret Gibson at the Buddhist Poetry Festival” »
On Sunday, July 8, The Buddhist Poetry Festival at Zen Mountain Monastery concluded with a talk by Shugen Roshi. The koan case referenced in the talk is Dongshan’s “No Grass” from the Book of Serenity.
Find out more about the festival by visiting BuddhistPoetryFestival.org
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Book of Serenity, Case 89
This talk was given at the conclusion of the Buddhist Poetry Festival.
Zen Mountain Monastery, 7/08/2018
Jeanne Seisen Lewis, Senior Lay Student
Zen Center of New York City, 07/08/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans (Shinji Shobogenzo), Case 243
Zen Mountain Monastery, 7/01/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record, Case 3
Zen Mountain Monastery, 6/24/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record, Case 3
Zen Mountain Monastery, 6/17/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 6/10/2018
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Transmission of the Light, Case 51
Zen Centre of New York City, 6/10/2018
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Gateless Gate, Case 19
Zen Centre of New York City, 6/9/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
The Gateless Gate, Case 7
Zen Mountain Monastery, 6/3/2018
Robert Rakusan Moshin Ricci, Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 05/27/2018
From The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Collection of Three Hundred Koans, Case 169: Mahakasyapa and the Flagpole
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans (Shinji Shobogenzo), Case 148
Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei
The Gateless Gate, Case 26
Zen Mountain Monastery, 5/25/2018
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Book of Serenity, Case 52
Zen Mountain Monastery, 5/24/2018
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi
This is a follow up on Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi’s retreat on Social and Communal Harmony
Zen Mountain Monastery, 5/20/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
The Gateless Gate, Case 41
Zen Mountain Monastery, 5/06/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans (Shinji Shobogenzo), Case 101
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/28/2018
Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/27/2018
Michelle Seigei Spark, Lay Senior
Zen Mountain Monastery, 04/26/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
A discourse on an excerpt from Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo Fascicle “Body-Mind Study of the Way”
Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/22/2018
Gateless Gate, case 36
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Center of New York City, 4/22/2018
A Retreat given by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/21/2018
A Retreat given by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/21/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record, Case 82
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/14/2018
Book of Serenity: Case 19
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi & Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/8/2018
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/8/2018
Gateless Gate: Case 37
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Book of Serenity, Case 42
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans (Shinji Shobogenzo), Case 122
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/25/2018
Blue Cliff Record: Case 89
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/18/2018
Book of Serenity: Case 21
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Center of New York City, 3/17/2018
Gateless Gate: Case 30
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/11/2018
Transmission of the Light: Case 25
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei and Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 3/11/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/4/2018
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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Dharma Holder
Zen Center of New York City, 3/4/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 2/25/2018
This talk was given by Shugen Roshi on Feb. 25, 2018, at the conclusion of the Monastery’s Bodhidharma sesshin.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 2/25/2018
Blue Cliff Record: Case 25
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 2/24/2018
Blue Cliff Record: Case 65
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Book of Serenity: Case 74
Zen Mountain Monastery, 2/11/2018
Note: due to technical difficulty the first 90 seconds of this audio is from a talk given in 2012.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Gateless Gate: Case 23, Think Neither Good nor Evil
Zen Mountain Monastery, 2/4/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Gateless Gate: Case 38, A Buffalo Passes Through a Window
Zen Mountain Monastery, 1/28/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Gateless Gate: Case 38, A Buffalo Passes Through a Window
Zen Mountain Monastery, 1/26/2018
Susan Seien Wilder, Lay Senior
Zen Mountain Monastery, 1/25/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Gateless Gate: Case 38, A Buffalo Passes Through a Window
Zen Mountain Monastery, 1/24/2018
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record: Case 21, Chih Men’s Lotus Flower, Lotus Leaves
Zen Mountain Monastery, 1/7/2018
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Center of New York City, 1/7/2018
Michael Yukon Grody, Monastic
Danica Shoan Ankele, Monastic