Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Gateless Gate, Case 43
Zen Center of New York City, 02/03/2019
Call it a stick, or don’t call a stick. – Speak! Speak! Hogen Sensei explores the interplay between the relative and absolute, suffering inherent in our attachment to the limited conceptions of our self and reality, and learning to trust the immediate completeness of our moment-to-moment experience.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Blue Cliff Record, Case #73
Zen Center of New York City, 1/20/2019
Hogen Sensei explores the difficulty of clarifying the dharma in language and describes the power of the koan tradition to express the inexpressible.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 1/13/2019
As we find ourselves in the new year, Hogen calls upon poet W. S. Merwin to investigate our asking ourselves the deeper questions. What does it mean to be still? What makes our practice real? How can we fully inhabit our own experience? How do we create a good day?
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 1/12/2019
In this talk, Hogen Sensei cites Leonard Cohen and Shantideva in discussing the six paramitas, the virtues cultivated by the aspiring bodhisattva.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 11/4/2018
Hogen Sensei teaches on impermanence , how nothing ever goes exactly according to plan, and how we must all eventually face ourselves.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
The Gateless Gate, Case #22
Zen Center of New York City, 11/3/2018
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 10/31/2018
Hogen Sensei leads the last of three group study sessions on the Jataka Tales, legends about the previous lives of the Buddha found in the Pali Canon. Here he takes up the story of Kassapa, an ascetic whose almost abandons his commitment to non-harming in order to marry the king’s beautiful daughter, Candavati. The discussion focuses on gender, desire, objectification, and what it means to study texts from cultural contexts different than our own.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 10/21/2018
In this talk, given on the occassion of a fusatsu ceremony, Hogen Sensei addresses the vows we renew, and what it means to take them up. The bodhisattva precepts, he points out, are at the heart of Zen practice and our common understanding of how to live an awakened life.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 10/18/2018
In the second of three sessions looking at the Jataka Tales, Hogen Sensei leads a group study of one of the Buddha’s past lives in which, oddly enough, he was the leader of a gang. What can learn from this tale about our own choices in life? What can we learn about the long road of karma?
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
The Gateless Gate, Case #12
Zen Mountain Monastery, 9/28/2018
Vividly evoking the ‘village’ of personas we each contain, Hogen Sensei urges us to acknowledge and learn from our multiple identities without mistaking them for a fixed self.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Transmission of the Light, Case 27
Zen Center of New York City, 9/15/2018
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 9/09/2018
This talk was given at the opening of the current ango training period.
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
The Gateless Gate: Nansen’s Not Mind, Not Buddha, Not Things, Case 27
Zen Center of New York City, 9/02/2018