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Hojin Sensei
received dharma transmission from Shugen Roshi in 2017. She is currently the Abbot of the Zen Center of NYC-Fire Lotus Temple , where most of these talks originate from.
Bodhisattvaness
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei ZCNYC 05/21/2023 - How should we regard and love one another? In the Vimalakirti Sutra, Vimalakirti begins by describing to Manjushri about the insubstantiality of beings. What kind of teaching is this? If people are like balls of...
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Singing Dharma with Ambapali
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC 5/14/2023 - For Mother's Day Hojin Sensei introduces us to Ambapali, one of the important female figures in the Buddhist tradition alive during the time of the Buddha. Her enlightenment poem is found in the Therigatha...
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Do You Remember?
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC 05/07/2023 - Hojin Sensei introduces us to the Five Remembrances first found in the Upajjhatthana Suttra. We are encouraged to reflect on these because we will do things that make ourselves and others suffer. We are reminded...
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Compassionate Inquiry
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC, Fire Lotus Temple, 04/23/2023 - Hojin Sensei quotes from Hongzhi, Charlotte Joko Beck and teaches how to practice in accord with our true self and our relative self. She invites us to open to the parts of ourselves that...
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Zenki: “Undivided Activity”
Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Saturday 03/11/2023 - Hojin Sensei offers Dharma words and a reading of Dogen's fascicle Zenki, "Undivided Activity" during a Zazenkai at Fire Lotus...
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Spring 2023 Ango Opening at Fire Lotus Temple
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 03/05/2023 - Hojin Sensei opens the Spring 2023 Ango at Fire Lotus Temple. She asks, of this Ango's theme, "Birth and Death," what is birth? what is death? These themes will be...
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The Six Nails of Tilopa
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 02/12/2023 - Hojin Sensei reflects on Tilopa's Six Nails, a set of instructions for practitioners composed by the 10th century Buddhist master Tilopa. This talk reminds us to...
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Novice Ordination for Sekku Harrison
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 02/05/2023 - Hojin Sensei officiates the Novice Monastic Ordination ceremony for Simon Sekku Harrison, surrounded by a full and joyful zendo at Fire Lotus Temple. Novice...
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Breath Breathing Human Being
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 01/08/2023 - Hojin Sensei speaks about the simple and profound practice of breathing. The breath, she shares, brings us into the body and into the present, gradually unifying...
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New Year’s Eve Fusatsu: A Vow-Powered Life
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Saturday, New Year's Eve 12/31/2022 - Dharma Talk during the New Year's Eve Fusatsu Ceremony - Hojin Sensei welcomes in the new year with a Fusatsu at Fire Lotus Temple. She invokes...
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Mind Is Like an Artist Painting Worlds
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 12/11/2022 - From the Avatamsaka Sutra - A Reading Meditation - Hojin Sensei offers Dharma words from the Avatamsaka (Flower Garland) Sutra, drawing out the importance of being...
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The Place Where You Are
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 12/04/2022 - Hojin Sensei reflects on a quotation from Dogen Zenji "When you know the place where you are, practice begins." We can view this quotation as an invitation to...
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Miraculous Powers
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 11/13/2022 - From The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women - "The Old Woman's Miraculous Powers." - How do we view the ordinary acts of our lives?...
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Fusatsu: Intimate Possibilities
Zen Mountain Monastery - Dharma Talk during the Harvest Moon Sesshin 2022 Fusatsu Ceremony - What is liturgy? Is it bowing? Chanting? Washing the face? What makes something liturgy and what makes something not liturgy? Hojin Sensei speaks on this topic during...
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Bodhisattvas in Training
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 10/23/2022 - Hojin Sensei speaks about Shantideva's "The Way of the Bodhisattva" as a deep teaching about our true nature. She brings alive the meeting point of our Bodhisattva...
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Mara Mind / Buddha Mind
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 10/09/2022 - Hojin Sensei explores the interconnectedness of buddha nature and mara nature. By envisioning Mara as a Bodhisattva, what can it teach us about the areas we wish...
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Peaceful Dwelling – Fall 2022 Ango Opening at Fire Lotus Temple
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 09/04/2022 - Hojin Sensei offers opening reflections on the Fall 2022 Ango training period, introducing the primary texts that training students will be working with as well as...
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How Do We Regard Living Beings?
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 07/17/2022 - Hojin Sensei speaks on Chapter 7 from the Vimalakirti Sutra entitled "The Goddess." In this chapter, Manjushri asks Vimalakirti , "How should we regard living...
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Making Space
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 07/10/2022 - How can we recognize the mechanics of proliferation in our thoughts? How can we skillfully meet the "grasper" in our minds? In this talk, Hojin Sensei speaks to...
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Sincerity
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 07/03/2022 - What is sincere practice? How can we look at ourselves and the world honestly and gently? Hojin Sensei speaks about the role of sincerity in Zen practice and how...
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Cooking the Supreme Meal
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday 06/24/2022 - How do we relate to all that comes up in our everyday life - our "ingredients" - and what are the attitudes with which we conduct ourselves? How do we practice our lives? Hojin...
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Jukai Ceremony at Fire Lotus Temple, June 2022
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei and Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 06/12/2022 - Hojin Sensei and Hogen Sensei officiate the June 2022 Jukai ceremony at Fire Lotus Temple in which four students received the sixteen...
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Ancestor Patachara: Sanctity of Experience
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 06/05/2022 - How can we hold the beauty and love in our life and the deep human suffering? In this talk, Hojin Sensei invokes the story of Patachara, one of the earliest...
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Living as the Dragon
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 05/08/2022 - How do we practice fearlessness in the midst of fear? In this talk, Hojin Sensei invokes the dragon - a being that is often referenced in the Zen tradition as an...
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Dharma Encounter: How Do We Know This Practice Works?
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 05/01/2022 - This Dharma Encounter with Hojin Sensei took place at the conclusion of the Apple Blossom Sesshin. What are our reasons for coming to the Dharma? Is our practice helping to...
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Fusatsu: The Three Pure Precepts
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday Evening 04/29/2022 - Dharma Talk during the Apple Blossom Sesshin 2022 Fusatsu Ceremony - Not Creating Evil, Practicing Good, and Actualizing Good For Others -- these are The Three Pure...
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Alive in Silence
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday 04/27/2022 - Why are we drawn to a retreat where silence is practiced? And why did the Buddha refer to this practice as "Noble Silence"? In this talk, Hojin Sensei opens the April Apple...
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Being Still
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 04/17/2022 - In this talk, Hojin Sensei speaks about the profound practice of being still. She explores the relationship between stillness and activity, and offers teachings on...
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Welcoming Strange and Wonderful Visitors
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 04/10/2022 - What is taking refuge in letting go and stillness, among the many visitors to our guest house? In this talk, Hojin Sensei speaks to the practice of resting in all...
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Already this Lotus Sutra
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 03/27/2022 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 21 - Chih Men's Lotus Flower, Lotus Leaves - In this talk Hojin Sensei explores the title of the Lotus Sutra and the koan Lotus...
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Noble and Sublime Joy
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 02/20/2022 - What is sympathetic joy? Hojin Sensei explores one of the Four Immeasurables. In bringing our attention to the delights in our life, we can experience joy for ourselves and...
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Even More Patience
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday 01/28/2022 - One of the Paramitas (or Perfections) is patience, and if you've ever reached the limits of yours, you know there can be more to discover. Hojin Sensei revisits the story,...
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