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Zen Mountain Monastery

These talks were given at either Zen Mountain Monastery or Zen Center of New York City by visiting teachers, dharma holders, and senior students. These talks are given from the speaker"s personal experience of practice and the dharma and are offered in the spirit of encouragement and support.

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00:28:46

Practicing Samadhi

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2023/12/28

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Dharma Holder - ZMM - 12/28/2023 - From The Eight Awarenesses of the Enlightened Person - Gokan talks about Samadhi and how it manifests continuously in our lives.

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00:46:00

Encountering Buddha Ancestors

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2023/12/17

Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 12/17/2023 - Mn Shoan recounts some of her encounters and experiences during her recent pilgrimage to Japan.

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00:29:05

Not Forgetting Right Thought

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2023/12/16

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 12/16/2023 - From The Eight Awarenesses of the Enlightened Person: Not Forgetting Right Thought - Mn Gokan encourages us to get to know our own deep patterns of remembering and forgetting.

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00:48:25

Working with Shame

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2023/11/17

Maureen Jisho Ford, Senior Lay Student - ZMM, Friday 11/17/23 - "We mistake the story for who we are." Senior lay student Jisho gives a very personal talk about her experience with shame.

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00:26:47

Taking Refuge in Humility, Taking Refuge in the Earth

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2023/10/29

Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 10/29/23 - Yunen discusses the virtue of humility and its relationship to taking refuge in the earth. What is true humility? How is it different from self-denial or self-disparagement? And how does the capacity to step out of the way and hold the self lightly bring forth compassion?

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00:38:42

The Three Poisons, Compounding the Medicine

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2023/10/26

Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 10/26/23 - The 59 Slogans of the Lojong mind training provide guidelines for practice and aspiration on the Buddhist path. Yosha explores how this specific slogan helps loosen up the tangled strands of our habitual, unskillful reactivity and patterns in our behavior, bringing in loving-kindness and compassionate activity.

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00:32:01

Exerting Meticulous Effort

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2023/10/22

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 10/22/23 - From The Eight Awarenesses of the Enlightened Person. - Gokan reminds us, in the Buddha's words that: "If you practice meticulous effort, nothing will be difficult to accomplish."

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00:44:26

Everything Changes

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2023/09/20

Prabu Gikon Vasan, Senior Lay Practitioner - ZMM - 6/10/23 -Gikon speaks on the liberating effects of settling oneself within the reality of impermanence, bringing this core buddhist teaching to life through referencing excerpts from the Lotus Sutra, the Fire Sermon, and his own life experiences.

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00:35:32

Having Few Desires

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2023/08/27

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZCNYC - 8/27/2023 - Having few desires is the first of the "Eight Awarenesses". In this talk Gokan invites us to explore the nature of desire; all of its aspects and our relationship with it.

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00:40:39

Desire, Pleasure and the Path

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2023/08/25

Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - 8/25/2023 - What is desire? What is pleasure? Where's the problem? How do we work with desire that is liberative, which doesn't lead to greed or violence?

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00:36:08

Taking Refuge

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2023/08/23

Chris Yudo Abraham - ZMM - 8/23/2023 - Yudo speaks about the practice of taking refuge, or "throwing ourselves unreservedly" into something, using examples from his own life. What do we take refuge in? And are the things we take refuge in worthy of our precious human life?

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00:35:27

A Conversation with an Apple Tree

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2023/07/28

Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 07/28/2023 - How do we understand suffering in the relationships with those we love? Shinji reflects on three relationships, with the sangha of ZMM, with her life partner, and with her apple orchard: all in the context of the 1st Noble Truth of suffering and her dharma practice.

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00:27:21

Enjoying Serenity and Tranquility

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2023/07/27

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 7/27/2023 - What is this quiet place in our heart-mind where we can enjoy serenity and tranquility? Do we have to reach for it? Or is it right here? Gokan examines the third of "The Eight Awarenesses of the Bodhisattva".

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00:43:51

The Best Season of Your Life

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2023/07/23

Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZCNYC - 7/23/2023 - Zen Master Wumen Huikai wrote, "Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." In this talk, Shoan explores this teaching, which profoundly points to the heart of Zen practice.

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00:30:26

Knowing How to be Satisfied

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2023/07/16

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 7/16/2023 - What is it to be satisfied? How much is enough? Can we be satisfied with the way we are right here, right now? Gokan delves into these questions of desire and satisfaction, and brings it back to our zazen, asking: how does our zazen practice help us to understand knowing how to be satisfied? Gokan shares from "The Eight Awarenesses of the Bodhisattva", a succinct teaching the Buddha gave during the last days of his life

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00:36:36

Coming Home

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2023/07/15

Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 7/15/2023 - Shoan shares a poem by 14th Century Kashmiri mystic Lalleshwari about "coming home" and asks where do you find yourself in relation to "seeking", "home leaving", "longing"? These activities may seem to imply the need to find, to get somewhere, to be finally satisfied. Yet the non-dual wisdom of Lalleshwari tells us that she's at home when "the truthful one finds me". Lalleshwari seems to say the same thing as Master Dogen:

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00:43:53

Ordinary Miracle

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2023/07/09

Danica Shoan Ankele, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 7/09/2023 - Shoan looks in wonderment at the image of "two arrows meeting in mid-air"... Our seemingly ordinary experience and activity in everyday life is none other than the great universal self, Buddha Mind. Reflecting on a poem from the medieval Buddhist nun Fayuan, Red Pine's commentary on the Diamond Sutra, Master Dogen's Jinzu (Miracles) and Genjokoan (Actualizing the Fundamental Point), the teachings of Kosho Uchiyama, and an

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00:46:22

Waves of the Ocean

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2023/06/23

Michelle Seigei Spark, Lay Senior MRO Student - ZMM - 6/23/2023 - Senior lay student Seigei talks about the challenges and opportunities of working with the conditions in which we find ourselves.

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00:24:59

Stayin’ Alive

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2023/06/21

Robert Rakusan Ricci, Senior Monastic - ZMM 6/21/2023 - What is it in me that wants to persist? Is that what being "me" is? Throughout our lives so much in our culture is teaching us to desire; reinforcing our desires... to continue being "me", to have a "full life"; stayin' alive as the song goes. Where is freedom and liberation in this? Rakusan examines this quandary. What if instead, we STOP and rest from all this activity of Stayin' Alive?

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00:33:55

This Is Where The Work Is

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2023/06/18

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM 6/18/2023 - Where and when do I get the opportunity to see into my true nature, the true nature of things? What hinders my being at peace in the Way? Gokan shares his insight in light of the Sixth century Faith Mind Poem and the teachings of the modern master Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche.

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