
Zen Mountain Monastery
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Spring 2026 Ango Opening Talk – “The Turning Words of Hongzhi”
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/22/26 - Shugen Roshi introduces the theme of the MRO Spring Ango 2026 training period, "The Turning Words of Hongzhi"....
Ango Opening Talk at Fire Lotus Temple
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/22/26 - Join Hojin Sensei for her Spring Ango opening remarks at the Temple. Auspicious Beginning of Spring! Homage to the buddha, dharma, san...
Aspects of Giving
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/15/26 - As the first of the Paramitas, or perfections, generosity is a virtue that leads to releasing the suffering we all experience, which...
Come to Rest in Actuality
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei and Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/15/26 - Buddha and Mara are figurative ways of portraying a fundamental seeming opposition within our human na...
It’s Right Here
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/8/26 - From The Hidden Lamp, Case #1: The Old Woman of Mt. Wutai - What is this desire to have a defined path in life and might the pointing i...
So Many Hands and Eyes
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/8/26 - When we are complete within ourselves, nothing is left aside as unimportant. All of it is important. We can look to the great bodhisa...
Vimalakirti’s Gate of Non-Duality
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/1/26 - What did Vimalakirti say when Manjushri asked him to speak? In our own lives, how do we find freedom amid the dualities we encounter—...
Mirror, Mirror ! – Reflecting without Division
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 3/1/26 - Listen to this invitation from a small convent in medieval Japan—Tōkeiji—where generations of nuns practiced zazen before a mirror, con...
Bodhisattva of Great Compassion
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 2/22/26 - Known by many different names throughout the Buddhist world—Avalokitesvara, Kwan Yin, Kannon—they are the hearer of the cries of the...
Metta Sutra As Practice
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 2/21/26 - Our unified being—seeing body and mind as one reality—is profoundly affected by outside circumstances. Zazen practice turns us inwar...
Shaping the World of Experience
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 2/19/26 - Coming into the experience of our emotions and thoughts, we can find the way our minds shape our experience from one moment to the nex...
Metta Sutra As Instructions
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 2/18/26 - This early sutra of the Buddha describes the practice of metta, offered as a beneficial aid to settle the mind and body and ease fea...
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