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received dharma transmission from Shugen Roshi in 2016. He is currently living in Florida and is only able to gives talks at Zen Mountain Monastery a few times a year.
Living and Dying as Your Life
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM 05/25/2023 - From Dogen's Extensive Record, # 391: "Life and Death Without Abode" - Hogen Sensei asks... Can we directly look at our life? Which is what we mean when we say "Strive to...
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Who Is The Other?
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 11/17/22 - Mumonkan (Gateless Gate) Case 45 - Wu-tsu: "Who Is That Other?" - "Who am I?" and "Who is the Other?" These questions continuously show up in our lives. How do we live them, live...
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Dancing with the Moon
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday 10/28/2022 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 74 - Chin Niu's Rice Pail - Hogen Sensei begins with the dancing, laughing Master Chin Niu. There are routines in and throughout our lives, as it...
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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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How to Lose Momentum
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday 05/27/2022 - Dharma Talk during the Ocean Gathering Sesshin - Drawing on the lyrics of the song 'Momentum' by Aimee Mann, Hogen Sensei illuminates how much our lives are driven by fear. What...
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The Sisters of Mercy
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 05/22/2022 - What is true compassion and how do we develop it? If Buddhist teachings say a compassionate heart is our birthright, what must we do to reveal it? With Leonard Cohen's song...
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Lotus in the Fire
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 04/28/2022 - The Buddha pointed to our desires as the origin of our suffering. But how do we understand desire? Does having wants guarantee us pain? In this talk, Hogen Sensei discusses the...
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Dharma Encounter: Taking Refuge in the Buddha
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 04/03/2022 - This Dharma Encounter with Hogen Sensei took place at the conclusion of the March Founding Sesshin. What does it mean to take refuge in the Buddha? What does it mean to take...
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Fusatsu: Experience the Intimacy of Things
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday Evening 04/01/2022 - Dharma Talk during the Founder's Sesshin 2022 Fusatsu Ceremony - The tenth Buddhist Precept is to "Experience the intimacy of things; Do not defile the Three Treasures."...
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What Am I Missing? The Fire God Comes Looking For Fire
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday 03/30/2022 - From Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo (True Dharma Eye), Case 122 - Fayan's Fire God - As practitioners of the Dharma, are we truly on the edge of our practice? Is peace and...
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Everyone Has Their Own Light
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 11/18/2021 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 86 - Everyone Has Their Own Light - Hogen Sensei asks us: "how can we talk about enlightenment when there is nothing to understand about...
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Dharma Encounter: Vows
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 10/24/2021 - Dharma Encounter at the Conclusion of the Harvest Moon...
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Sometimes……
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 10/21/2021 - From the poetry of David Whyte - Hogen Sensei asks us to consider the questions - we all have - that, As David Whyte puts it, "can make or unmake a life." What are they? How do...
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The All Pervading Subtlety of Karma
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday 09/24/2021 - The Book of Equanimity, Case 18 - Zhaozhou's...
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Cultivating Realization
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zoom Broadcast, Thursday Evening 07/22/2021 - True Dharma Eye, Case 123 - Mayu's "Nature of the...
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zoom Broadcast, 6/24/2021 - Teachings from Eihei Dogen, William Shakespeare and Nina Simone - How do we understand the ceaseless change which is our life? Hogen Sensei delves into this question with quotes from Dogen's "Continuous...
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How Do We Give Life To Faith?
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zoom Broadcast, 5/23/2021 - Mumonkan (Gateless Gate) – Case 23: Think Neither Good Nor Evil - Hogen Sensei uses this well-known interaction between Hui Neng, the Sixth Ancestor, and Monk Ming to delve deeply into the meaning of...
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There is Only One Dharma
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Broadcasted via zoom, 3/25/2021 The Blue Cliff Record, case 59:...
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Shigong’s Emptiness
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Broadcasted from Hogen Sensei’s home in Pennsylvania, 2/14/2021 The True...
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Blue Mountain Walks
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Broadcasted from Hogen Sensei’s home in Pennsylvania, 12/28/2020 Invoking the...
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Not Betraying Others
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Broadcasted from Hogen Sensei’s home in Pennsylvania, 11/18/2020 Case 47...
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An Old Man Alone in the Morning
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Broadcasted from Hogen Sensei’s home in Pennsylvania, 10/23/2020 Rarely do...
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The Whole World Is Medicine
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Broadcasted from Hogen Sensei’s home in Pennsylvania, 6/27/2020 Blue Cliff...
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The Tripitaka is Embroidered in the Eiheiji Brocade
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Zen Mountain Monastery – Broadcasted from Hogen Sensei’s home in...
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Spring Ango Opening, ZCNYC, 2020
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Zen Center of New York City, 03/08/2020 Exploring the study...
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Suffering Cannot Reach It
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Zen Center of New York City, 03/07/2020 True Dharma Eye,...
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Beyond the Fear of Birth and Death
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Zen Center of New York City, 03/06/2020 Working with the...
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Keeping Quiet
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Zen Center of New York City, 02/23/2020 In approaching a...
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Yun Men’s Appropriate Statement
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Zen Center of New York City, 02/16/2020 The Blue Cliff...
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Guarding Our Minds From Wild Elephants
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Zen Center of New York City, 02/15/2020 Shantideva taught about...
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