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Ron Hogen Green

Zen Mountain Monastery

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01:21:33

Genjokoan Dharma Encounter

Ron Hogen Green ·

2025/09/28

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 9/28/25 - Manifesting absolute reality—awakened reality—in everyday life is Genjokoan. In this lively Dharma Encounter with Hogen Sensei, the awakened reality of everyday life is explored as our fundamental practice. Sensei says “true realization manifests as compassionate action in the world; that’s the bottom line,” and asks that we each consider how we enter this ordinary, everyday actualization of compassion. (Dharma Encounter at the September 2025 Mountains and

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00:48:59

Do I Die, Or Do I Live?

Ron Hogen Green ·

2024/11/21

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 11/21/24 - From The Book of Equanimity, Case 30 - Daizui's Fire at the End of the Kalpa - Practice offers a way for cutting through dualities within which we tend to get lost, as all of our lives are based on these dualities. Hogen Sensei challenges us to see from a larger perspective, a way which inherently challenges dualistic ways of being in the world. Within this practice, how do we understand the permanence of Buddha Nature which is not a “thing”?

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00:45:39

Having Power on the Road

Ron Hogen Green ·

2024/09/26

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 09/26/2024 - What is it to be empowered on the path? What is your potential? Realizing our true nature, personally, requires trust, an intuitive trust that must be developed over time. In this exploration of dharma practice, Hogen Sensei brings forward the virtues of selflessness and compassion that can empower us on the path.

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00:38:53

Doing Wrong on the Road to Blessedness

Ron Hogen Green ·

2024/04/27

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 4/27/24 - From the Book of Equanimity, Case 67 - The Wisdom of the Flower Garland Sutra - The base of our practice is to realize our own true nature. Hogen Sensei exhorts us to not defile it by clinging to our deluded opinions; we are all fundamentally endowed with the virtues of the Buddha.

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00:57:56

Leading the People

Ron Hogen Green ·

2024/04/21

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 4/21/24 - Inspired by Master Dogen’s poem “Snow”, Hogen Sensei asks us what makes us whole? What can we rely on to face what is before us with clear intention?

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00:40:17

The Lion’s Roar: Your Roar

Ron Hogen Green ·

2024/03/27

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.

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00:43:14

Living An Appropriate Life

Ron Hogen Green ·

2023/11/16

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 11/16/23 - From the Blue Cliff Record, Case 14 - "Yunmen's Appropriate Statement" - With this pithy koan by Yunmen, in light of Atisha's slogan #55, "Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing", Hogen Sensei encourages us to clarify, on an ongoing basis, why we're practicing and to trust our direct experience as a "way in", a "journey of no distance."

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01:24:31

Our Practice of Awakening: Endless Pivot Points

Ron Hogen Green ·

2023/10/29

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 10/29/23 - How do you understand "Intimate Speech"? How and when does it occur? What happens, inside and outside, when it does? Hogen Sensei takes up these questions and others with Ango participants in a heartfelt discussion.

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00:43:03

In one, there is many. In many, only one.

Ron Hogen Green ·

2023/09/27

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 9/27/23 - From the Book of Equanimity, Case 17 - Fayan's "Hairsbreadth" - What's the difference between conveying knowledge and conveying the non-dual dharma? How do we directly experience the distinctiveness and the oneness of things, and convey this to each other, in the activity of our everyday lives? Is that "Intimate Language"?

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01:24:19

Jukai Ceremony at Fire Lotus Temple, August 2023

Ron Hogen Green ·

2023/08/06

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZCNYC 8/6/2023 - Hogen Sensei officiates a Jukai Ceremony for three MRO students. Amidst a full zendo at Fire Lotus Temple, these students received the 16 Bodhisattva precepts and the following dharma names: Gale Onjan ("Peaceful Faith") Delaney, Beverly Kyokei ("Offering Kindness") Corbett, and Ravi Baike ("Cultivating Prajna") Mishra.

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00:37:50

The World is not Conclusion

Ron Hogen Green ·

2023/06/25

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 6/25/2023 - The Bodhisattva Path calls for the kind of understanding/view at the outset which will support/inspire/guide our activity on that path. Hogen Sensei comments on Emily Dickinson's poem "This World is not Conclusion" to help us to see the deep aspects of this understanding.

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00:33:30

Living and Dying as Your Life

Ron Hogen Green ·

2023/05/25

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM 05/25/2023 - From Dogen's Extensive Record, # 391: "Life and Death Without Abode" - Hogen Sensei asks... Can we directly look at our life? Which is what we mean when we say "Strive to Awaken"....

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00:45:18

Who Is The Other?

Ron Hogen Green ·

2022/11/17

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 11/17/22 - Mumonkan (Gateless Gate) Case 45 - Wu-tsu: "Who Is That Other?" - "Who am I?" and "Who is the Other?" These questions continuously show up in our lives. How do we live them, live with them? Hogen Sensei encourages us to keep them present and open, and alive.

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00:34:11

Dancing with the Moon

Ron Hogen Green ·

2022/10/28

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday 10/28/2022 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 74 - Chin Niu's Rice Pail - Hogen Sensei begins with the dancing, laughing Master Chin Niu. There are routines in and throughout our lives, as it is in the life of the monastery. How do we understand these routines? How do we practice them? And what is it that's reflected in our actions? Is there receiving? Is there offering? Within each of our unique karmic lives, we bring forth our true

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00:42:18

How to Lose Momentum

Ron Hogen Green ·

2022/05/27

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday 05/27/2022 - Dharma Talk during the Ocean Gathering Sesshin - Drawing on the lyrics of the song 'Momentum' by Aimee Mann, Hogen Sensei illuminates how much our lives are driven by fear. What is the alternative to fear? When we are fearful, what is it that we do not want to feel? Instead of a strategy of numbness, how do we turn towards and disrupt the momentum of our fearful karmic patterns?

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00:49:34

The Sisters of Mercy

Ron Hogen Green ·

2022/05/22

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 05/22/2022 - What is true compassion and how do we develop it? If Buddhist teachings say a compassionate heart is our birthright, what must we do to reveal it? With Leonard Cohen's song Sisters of Mercy as a muse, Hogen Sensei explores the nature of compassion, its relationship to wisdom and loving-kindness, and the vital role our own suffering plays.

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00:51:34

Lotus in the Fire

Ron Hogen Green ·

2022/04/28

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 04/28/2022 - The Buddha pointed to our desires as the origin of our suffering. But how do we understand desire? Does having wants guarantee us pain? In this talk, Hogen Sensei discusses the nature of desire and investigates the difference between having attachments and liking certain things. How can we determine if we are bound by desire? And how do we hold the things in life we do like?

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01:00:05

Dharma Encounter: Taking Refuge in the Buddha

Ron Hogen Green ·

2022/04/03

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 04/03/2022 - This Dharma Encounter with Hogen Sensei took place at the conclusion of the March Founding Sesshin. What does it mean to take refuge in the Buddha? What does it mean to take refuge and what exactly are we taking refuge in? Hogen Sensei takes this question up with Ango participants in a lively discussion.

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00:17:17

Fusatsu: Experience the Intimacy of Things

Ron Hogen Green ·

2022/04/01

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday Evening 04/01/2022 - Dharma Talk during the Founder's Sesshin 2022 Fusatsu Ceremony - The tenth Buddhist Precept is to "Experience the intimacy of things; Do not defile the Three Treasures." How do we understand and apply this Precept? In this talk, Hogen Sensei takes up this profound teaching, imploring us to look closely at our practice and our lives.

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00:47:32

What Am I Missing? The Fire God Comes Looking For Fire

Ron Hogen Green ·

2022/03/30

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday 03/30/2022 - From Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo (True Dharma Eye), Case 122 - Fayan's Fire God - As practitioners of the Dharma, are we truly on the edge of our practice? Is peace and calm an indicator that we can rest in our accomplishment? Or is this just a transitory experience and there is more to be seen? When we reside firmly in our knowledge and don't step forth to continue inquiring more deeply, what could we be

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