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
A student asks, “Do people these days need enlightenment or not?” Working from the Book of Serenity and other texts, Shugen Roshi deeply investigates the many facets of this question. A true path, he says, acknowledges the painful reality of suffering but remains grounded in an unshakeable faith in the basic wholeness of every person.
Featured Event
The Beyond Fear of Differences (BFoD) Planning Group held a public forum at the Monastery on Sunday, March 3, 2019—a moment 10 years in the making.
Featured Video
On March 3, 2019, Shugen Roshi introduced the chief disciple for the new training period and spoke about confronting oppression as a path of liberation for all beings.
Featured Interview
More from the Buddhist Poetry Festival… David Hinton talks about how he came to dedicate his life to translating ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/21/2019
In the midst of the three celebrations for Passover, Easter and the Buddha’s Birthday, Hogen Sensei explores the non-dual nature of joy and suffering.
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/21/2019
We can be deceived by our moods and feelings into believing that they are us. Gokan shows us that by simply remembering to return to the moment we can see through our agitations to find our inherent peaceful Mind.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/18/2019
Precepts Mondo
Hogen Sensei explores the fourth precept on truthfulness, not lying. The Dharma is inexpressible; how can anyone speak a true word? The more the Buddha lies, the more he becomes Buddha. What does this mean for our lives?
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/14/2019
In this Sunday’s Dharma Discourse, Shugen Roshi summarizes and recaps the sessions of the Spring Ango Intensive retreat that focused on Dogen’s Shobogenzo Fascicle “Refrain From Unwholesome Action.” He brings this teaching to bear on the principle of Equity which include reparations for harm done in the ten values of Beyond Fear of Differences work, both personal and cultural unwholesome action.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/14/2019
Blue Cliff Record, Case 37
Hogen Sensei takes up a koan where a teacher asks a student, “Where do you seek the mind?” Realizing that life and death is a vital matter, where do you begin and how do you continue to follow a spiritual practice which gives you nothing to hold on to?
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/13/2019
Hogen Sensei takes up the question of what is zazen. Why do we practice? What is practice, and what motivates us to practice? He points us to Zen Master Joshu’s reply: zazen is alive.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/11/2019
Hogen Sensei explores wholesome action as an action that come out of discrimination rooted in wholeness.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/07/2019
Gateless Gate, Case 12
Insight into the nature of reality, seeing things as they are, can begin when we look into the workings of our minds. The practice of zazen brings us into the realm of inquiry directly, and in this discourse Shugen Roshi offers his commentary on the koan Ruiyan Calls “Master.”
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/04/2019
The second Fusatsu talk of the Spring Ango on Dogen’s fascicle “Refrain from Unwholesome Action.”
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/31/2019
First Dharma Encounter of the Spring Ango on Manifesting Buddha studying Dogen’s fascicle “Refrain from Unwholesome Action.”