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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei ZMM - 4/14/24 - A tea shop proprietor serves traveling monks a koan to accompany their tea. “Let those of you with miraculous powers drink tea.” Then she says to the stunned monks, “Watch this old, decrepit woman show
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 4/7/2024 - From Master Wu-men's Gateless Gate, Case 5 - "Hsiang-yen: Person Up a Tree" - How do we discriminate in a way that liberates and doesn't entangle us in the quandaries of duality? Shugen Roshi use
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 4/7/24 - From The Hidden Lamp: Collection of Stories of Twenty Five Centuries of Awakened Women - What is grief? Can we respect it? Not fear it? Really let it work us in and through our embodiment allowing it
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 4/6/24 - Awakening From Illusion... Is that what we call the practice of the way? For awakening is not a one-time thing, a one-time event. But a continual awareness that needs to be continually maintained. Su
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/31/24 - Shugen Roshi presents the Buddha's teaching on the Five Remembrances (impermanence, aging, illness, death, and karma) and invites his students to offer their own experience, thoughts, questions...
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/30/24 - From the Koans of the Way of Reality - Xinyang's Sweet Melons - Being on the eve of the funeral of the monastery's beloved gardener, Senior monastic Choke Yukon, Abbot Shugen Roshi presents us, fi
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/29/24 - Teisho during the March Fusatsu at ZMM during Spring Ango 2024 - In the context of our practice of the precepts, the 5th grave precept "Proceed Clearly", Shugen Roshi talks about the kleshas - men
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZMM - 3/28/24 - From "The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women" - Hojin Sensei presents a koan of Lingzhao and her father, falling together. How do we fall with someone? How do we accept
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 3/27/24 - From The Record of the Transmission of the Light, Case 1 - Shakyamuni Buddha - Hogen Sensei reminds us that we are all inherently buddhas and have the ability to realize ourselves in our lifetime.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZCNYC - 3/24/24 - Shugen Roshi offers a teaching on how we come into contact with and into relationship with the world. How do we meet each other? And what can make this so difficult?
Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 3/24/24 - Shoan Osho unfurls wide the themes of the Spring Ango -- Right Relationship, Gratitude, Interdependence -- by offering a cornucopia of teachings; from the verses of Mahapajapati, Buddha's aunt who rai
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 3/17/24 - From The True Dharma Eye, Case 148 - Dongshan's 'Teachings of the Insentient" - What does it mean to realize the true nature of mind? If we say that we must "realize it ourselves" then what is it that w
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/17/24 - Hojin Sensei examines a prevalent feature of our lives: distraction. We call it “monkey mind;” in Sanskrit it’s vikshepa, which means “mental wandering”, being drawn to objects that cause us to lose
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/10/24 - From Master Wu-men's Gateless Gate, Case 15 - "Tung-shan's Sixty Blows" - What is there to learn directly from our questions, settling into and being with them, without complicating them, without
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/3/24 - Shugen Roshi introduces the theme of the MRO 90-day Spring Ango training period, "Right Relationship with the World; Expressing Gratitude."
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/3/24 - Hojin Sensei opens this Ango, or Peaceful Dwelling, with a talk about right relationship with the world; expressing gratitude. She shares the Fourth Noble Truth and the Eightfold Path, a path that we
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/2/2024 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 3 - Master Ma is Unwell - For each of us, how do we create and hold ourselves in that place which opens to the middle way, the bodhisattva way? Where does our int
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/2/24 - How do we create suffering, and how do we unmake it? What is skillful? What isn’t? Hojin Sensei speaks about the Fourth Noble Truth and the Eightfold Path.
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei with The Karenji Choir - ZCNYC - 12/17/2023 - As a part of the Sunday Morning Program at ZCNYC, Hojin Sensei's Karenji Choir performed Santideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva, as arranged and directed by Justin Ward Web
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi and Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 02/25/2024 - Shugen Roshi introduces Mn Shoan for the first time as "Osho", and uses the occasion to comment on Master Dogen's fascicle on the three pure precepts, pointing out
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 2/18/24 - Mn Gokan shares his insight about speech; how it manifests, in its various forms, inward and outward, positive, negative, constructive, destructive, truthful, false. Are
Suzanne Taikyo Gilman, Senior Monastic - ZCNYC - 2/18/2024 - Taikyo shares the teachings on the paramitas, focusing on dana paramita - the perfection of giving. She explores the significance of giving selflessly and the myriad ways it manifests
Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 2/11/24 - Inspired by Master Guishan's Admonitions and Encouraging Words, Mn Shoan encourages us to perceive the wealth of opportunity in our own lives to engage in a personal study
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 2/11/24 - Drawing examples from Dogen and contemporary science, Yunen shares insights from the Buddhist teachings on liberation from suffering, and our relationship with our environment. (We apo
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 2/4/24 - Opening with a poem from David Whyte, Hojin Sensei presents a variety of teachings on courage; how we can embrace what we are most terrified of, and stand firm in this constant rebirth. To meet these
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