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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Zen Mountain Monastery

Shugen Roshi has been in full time monastic training since the mid-1980"s. He received dharma transmission from Daido Roshi in 1996. He has been the Head of the Mountains and Rivers Order since Daido Roshi"s passing in 2009 and is the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery.

religion & spirituality buddhism

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00:56:31

Dharma Encounter: The Five Remembrances

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2024/03/31

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.... How do we act on and connect to these, both inside ourselves and in our relationships?

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00:34:53

Fusatsu: Getting to Know the Kleshas

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2024/03/30

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 - mental states that cloud the mind- and how we can work with them. (We apologize; the first several minutes of this talk were not recorded.)

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01:04:10

Mondo: Coming Into Contact

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2024/03/24

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?

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00:43:54

A Simple Question

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2024/03/10

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 hastily hunting for, or picking and choosing and clinging to, answers?

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00:39:46

“Right Relationship” – Spring Ango Opening Talk

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2024/03/03

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."

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00:32:40

A Place To Enter

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2024/03/02

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 intention come from and what does it take to stay with our practice?

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00:37:25

Don’t Look Elsewhere

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/05/27

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM 5/27/2023 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 6 - Yunmen's "Every Day is a Good Day" - How is that possible? From what perspective is that so? Can we free the idea of good from our idea of good? And from Master Dogen's teaching "The Great Way of all Buddhas, thoroughly practiced is emancipation and realization." What does it mean to thoroughly practice?

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00:41:33

What Changes?

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/05/21

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM 05/21/2023 - From Master Dogen's Treasury Of The True Dharma Eye, Case 289, Daowu's "Alive or Dead" - Shugen Roshi reflects on our understanding of birth-and-death in the context of the Buddha's profound teaching of dependent co-origination.

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00:45:12

Fusatsu: Right in the Midst of Liturgy

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/05/14

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, ZMM 05/14/2023 - Shugen Roshi speaks about Liturgy and in particular how Oryoki and the Meal Gatha illustrate its beauty, its purpose, and the reality and challenges of our practice in these times.

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00:42:18

A Path Of No Separation

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/05/07

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM 05/07/2023 - From the Transmission of the Light, Case 7 - The 6th Indian Ancestor, Mishaka - There are strong karmic currents that keep showing up in our lives: loneliness, insecurity, anger, confusion, amongst many. We can think of them as intractable burdens or we can think of them as the ways each of us are going to work certain things out in this lifetime. Can we keep these close and not separate, and really use them to clarify, to free ourselves and to

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01:11:14

Dharma Encounter: A Refuge Unto Whom?

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/04/30

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM, 04/30/2023 - Dharma Encounter at the conclusion of the 2023 Apple Blossom Sesshin - A teaching in the Maha-Parinirvana Sutra uses the metaphor of an island. The Buddha says: "... You should all live with yourselves as your island, yourselves as your refuge, with no other as your refuge, ... with the Dharma as your island..." This may seem to us to be affirming a "me-oriented" culture, reinforcing individualism, etc. On the contrary, Shugen Roshi asks the sangha:

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00:44:55

Wonderful Medicine

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/04/29

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM, 04/29/2023 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 83 - Daowu Tends The Sick - Shugen reflects on this beautifully poetic koan, about seeing clearly into our suffering, into birth-and-death; the wonderful medicine that can be.

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00:33:32

Fusatsu: Ever-Present Intimacy

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/04/28

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery - 04/27/2023 - Teisho during the Fusatsu of ZMM's Apple Blossom Sesshin - Shugen Roshi reflects on the ever-present intimacy in our lives and the continuous practice of atonement.

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01:08:48

Jukai Ceremony, Spring Ango 2023

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/04/23

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery - 4/23/2023 - Shugen Roshi officiates the Spring 2023 Ango Jukai ceremony at Zen Mountain Monastery. Today, five students - Gashin, Chosei, Juyu, Kyoshin, & Jokai - formally receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts, taking up these living teachings, living vows in the company of the sangha with family and friends. Michael Kaup - Gashin - "Authentic Self"; Malcolm Barrett - Chosei - "Morning Spirit"; Mary Bosakowsky - Juyu - "Gentle Fearlesness";

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00:42:07

Unbinding Life and Death

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/04/16

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZCNYC, Fire Lotus Temple, 04/16/2023 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 41 - Zhaozhou's Person Who's Died the Great Death - Shugen Roshi invites us to confront the simple truths of our lives and to honestly and compassionately study them. How do you care very deeply but without entanglement? He says, "One of the greatest expressions of love is to see something as it is."

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00:42:18

The Enlightening Path

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/04/09

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 04/09/2023 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 62 - Mi Hu's "Enlightenment Or Not?" - From this koan, and quoting Daido Roshi "The way to heaven is heaven itself," and from Thomas Merton's writing on the monastic life which can just as well be applied to lay life, Shugen Roshi encourages us to be mindful, pay attention and see enlightenment here and now in our everyday activities. And be careful, what stuff are we using to put our life together

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01:09:29

Dharma Encounter: Dwelling in Refuge

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/04/02

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 04/02/2023 - Dharma Encounter at the conclusion of the 2023 Founding Sesshin; On passages from Dogen's Fascicle "Undivided Activity" and from the Buddha's teaching in the "Maha-Parinirvana Sutra." - Dogen teaches: "Birth is just like riding a boat, although you control the boat you could not ride without the boat..." And the Buddha teaches: "you are your refuge, unto yourself... there is no other refuge..."; "take yourself as your island..."

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00:39:50

Every Blessed Moment

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/04/01

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 04/01/2023 - From Master Dogen's Treasury Of The True Dharma Eye, "Undivided Activity" - "The great way of all buddhas, thoroughly practiced, is emancipation and realization." What is it about this activity that makes it emancipation and realization? What does it look like? Where and when is it happening?

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00:54:46

Fusatsu: Vows Reaching Out

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/03/31

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 03/30/2023 - Fusatsu Ceremony and Teisho from ZMM's Annual Founding Sesshin - Shugen Roshi reflects on the vows of his teacher when founding the monastery; how they've been alive and thriving, reaching out to us, and inviting us in, as is their nature, to the present day. (Shugen Roshi's talk begins 15 minutes into the ceremony.)

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00:45:48

Bringing Forth Our Beloved Community

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold ·

2023/03/26

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, 03/26/2023 - From Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo (The True Dharma Eye), Case 288 - Zhaozhou's "Indestructible Nature" - Shugen Roshi talks about the MRO's newly formed Sangha Harmony Advisory Council; how and why it came about.

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