Dharma Encounter: Bringing Our True Nature to Life
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 9/27/26 - Drawing on Dogen’s teaching that all beings are Buddha nature, Hogen Sensei asks how we bring this truth to life through...
Living Beings Are Buddha Nature
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/24/26 - The Buddha realized that all beings are capable of awakening to their true nature. Dogen echoed this truth by saying that...
Offering This Buddha Nature
Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - ZMM - 9/23/26 - The path of the bodhisattva is not always a convenient one, and probably not as we imagine it to be. We...
Transform A Vow Into Action
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/20/26 - What is the cause of suffering, at its root? The bodhisattva vow is to put an end to suffering and its...
The Form of Buddha Nature
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/13/26 - This formless Buddha Nature, how does it manifest? Is it large or small? Shugen Roshi quotes the great teacher Nagarjuna, “If...
Jukai at Fire Lotus Temple with Hojin Sensei
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 9/13/26 With Hojin Sensei officiating, four students formally receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts, taking up these living teachings, living vows in the company...
Ch’ien and Her Soul are Separated
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 9/6/26 - Stories are one of the primary ways that we create and re-create suffering in our own minds, and this folk tale...
When the Word ‘Should’ Begins to Shine
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 9/6/26 - Taking up Emily Dickinson’s practice—“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write...
Ango Opening Talk at ZMM with Shugen Roshi
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 8/30/26 - Shugen Roshi introduces the theme of the MRO 90-day Fall Ango 2026 training period: "Buddha Nature."
Ango Opening Remarks at Fire Lotus Temple
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 8/30/26 - Join Hojin Sensei offering opening remarks to the practitioners at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn to begin the Fall Ango Practice...
