A collection of dharma talks, events, interviews and other media from Zen Mountain Monastery and the Zen Center of NYC. Please scroll down for all available talks. Subscribe via: iTunes | Google Play
A collection of dharma talks, events, interviews and other media from Zen Mountain Monastery and the Zen Center of NYC. Please scroll down for all available talks. Subscribe via: iTunes | Google Play
Grounding in Groundlessness
In this talk from Interdependence Sesshin, Hojin Sensei employs the concept of imho, being tripped up by the ground beneath our feet and depending on that same ground to get back up. When you stumble and fall, Sensei suggests, don’t be so quick to jump back up again. You may just find hidden gems, including the very earth itself.
Featured Event
On June 9, the Monastery unveiled the Jizo Project, an important initiative, made possible through sangha support, to make the Monastery more accessible and accommodating for everyone.
Featured Video
How is it to live freely while not ignoring causation? Hogen Sensei gave this talk following a spring retreat called “Awakening to Karma.”
Featured Interview
Author Lawrence Shainberg discuss his new memoir, Four Men Shaking, ahead of his book reading at the Zen Center of NYC on October 5…
Author Lawrence Shainberg will be at the Zen Center of NYC on Saturday, October 5th for a reading from his new book, Four Men Shaking.
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
True Dharma Eye, Case 259
Zen Mountain Monastery, 09/08/2019
All “conditioned existence” is not in a state of peace, which is another way of saying the first of the Four Noble Truths as taught by the Buddha, that all life suffers. In this discourse Shugen Roshi explores the way that this suffering is manifest and continued, or brought to an end through the process of practice, of awareness and non-grasping.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 09/05/2019
Shugen Roshi explores the Four Noble Truths with the sangha at Zen Mountain Monastery.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 09/01/2019
Danica Shoan Ankele, Monastic
Zen Center of New York City, 09/01/2019
How does the magic of transformation happen? We may all secretly wish to transform what we don’t like, but how open are we to transformations we can’t even imagine? And to do this not just for ourselves, but for the betterment of all beings? Monastic Shoan explores how wisdom grows through the willingness to blossom, and to wake up, in this very life.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Book of Serenity, Case 75
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/25/2019
Amid the flow of a lifetime many changes occur, so how do we navigate both change and commitment, and how do we hold our vows in the face of things and influences that affect us deeply? Shugen Roshi uses this koan to explore how the Dharma can help expand our limited views of success and failure, right and wrong, while staying true to the essence of vow and commitment on the Bodhisattva path.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei & Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 08/25/2019
Please note – the audio at the start is poor quality but improves during the mondo.
Co-directors of ZCNYC lead a sangha discussion about current events at the Temple, on-going repairs to the building, staff and monastic contributions, volunteer and residency opportunities as well as upcoming retreats and teachings in the Mountains & Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
From The Record of Master Bodhidharma: the Breakthrough Sermon
Zen Mountain Monastery, 08/23/2019
Zen has been called a “short cut method” to enlightenment and in that regard this practice of beholding the mind might seem easy. But when called to let go of every shred of identity-clinging we create, the path seems much longer, if not impossible. Insight can be sudden but realization takes all the effort we can manage to manifest insight in the world of differentiation: practicing kindness when feeling selfish, finding equanimity in the midst of conflict, all require beholding the vast and boundless corners of mind.