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Jody Hojin Kimmel

Zen Mountain Monastery

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00:33:34

Stillness Within the Pulses of the Pattern

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2026/01/04

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 1/4/26 - In this talk Hojin draws on the teachings of Zen Master Bankei and the importance of allowing the still point to find us. All so very relevant. His teachings point to something very simple and very radical: before thought, before preference, before judgment—seeing happens, hearing happens, smelling, tasting, touching happens. And none of that needs a self to make it happen. How curious!

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00:36:42

Fusatsu: Renewal of Stillness

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2025/12/31

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 12/31/2025 - Here, in a Fusatsu ceremony—a renewal of vows and an atoning for our transgressions—the foundation is stillness. Zazen is the activity through which we continually return to that stillness. Hojin Sensei encourages us to listen deeply, so that morality is not imposed but received, and our true nature can be discovered. From this place, grace naturally infuses our everyday actions.

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00:43:06

Bodhi Day: The Source of Milk at the Shake Shack

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2025/12/07

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 12/07/25 - Celebrating Buddha’s Enlightenment, enjoy this talk of Hojin Sensei’s in looking at Buddha’s most important teaching —the story of his own journey to enlightenment. It is worth repeating as an essential guide for our own spiritual journey. In order to do this well we have to learn how to lean in. Rumi writes: You are the source of milk. Don’t milk others! We have a channel into the ocean, Beg for that love expansion. Meditate on this” If we are willing,

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00:38:45

Let’s Become Enlightened Together

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2025/11/30

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 11/30/25 - Into this season of gatherings with family, friends, communities, Hojin Sensei illuminates ways we might practice relationships on this noble path in taking up this koan and Dogen’s guiding practices on embracing the ways as a Bodhisattva. This practice of choosing the larger heart. - From The Hidden Lamp: Stories of Awakened Women - Case 99 - Let’s Become Enlightened Together.

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00:30:33

Fusatsu: Make Fresh

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2025/09/26

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZMM - 9/26/25 - Taking responsibility allows us to make fresh and new karma, to heal what needs to be healed. The vows of atonement or repentance are at the center of this ceremony of Fusatsu. Hojin Sensei explores what the words of our vows in this context mean, and how our intentions can turn the tides of harmful karma -- born of greed, anger and ignorance -- and allow us to heal. (Dharma Talk during the Mountains and Rivers Sesshin Fusatsu Ceremony)

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00:37:28

What’s Opening?

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2025/07/12

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 7/12/25 - The Bright, Boundless Field is a practice instruction of Chan Master Hongzhi, found in the text Cultivating the Empty Field. Join Hojin in an exploration of this teaching of the great way to closely observe delusions using these ‘habits or seeming obstructions’ themselves to clarify and illuminate the field of awakening—opening to the truth body, the truth of our embodiment.

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00:28:16

A Question of Practice

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2025/04/19

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 4/19/25 - Being a practitioner of the Buddha dharma, how do you know practice works? Without commenting or evaluating; without looking for progress, look at how it operates -- how you operate -- right here and now.

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00:36:29

Fusatsu: The Three Pure Precepts

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2025/04/06

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 4/6/25 - Hojin Sensei explores the heart of the three pure precepts; the simple path of clarity, kindness and love; this perennial wisdom that flows through all of us. (We apologise for the audio/mic glitches in some parts of the recording.)

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00:13:25

Karaniya Metta Sutta: Chant of Loving Kindness

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2024/11/09

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei 11/9/24 - Hojin Sensei introduces this chant, an essential means to connect body and mind, to draw out our inherent love and kindness, always needed, especially now. If you don't already have it, you can download the Sutta here: https://zmm.org/teachings-and-training/liturgy/karaniya-metta-sutta/

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00:41:26

Buddha’s Great Love

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2024/11/07

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 11/3/24 - Hojin Sensei encourages us to stay focused, remain alert and aware and to not run away from what comes up. To turn towards practice. To remember that we each have good medicine as practitioners to meet our life, to protect and guard the mind of goodness. Then in turn to offer the Bodhi mind of love, wisdom and transformation.

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00:40:32

Protecting This Wonderful World

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2024/10/11

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - 10/6/24 - Hojin Sensei explores the question of: What is true protection in our practice and for the world? Buddha once said to King Pasenadi, “your good karma, your good thought, words and good deeds; these are your protections, protection against yourself and your own unskillful habits, and protection against the unskillful habits of others.”

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00:48:14

Lonely—Alone—No Reference Point

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2024/08/18

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 8/18/24 - A Hidden Lamp Story: "The Old Woman's Relatives" - Hojin Sensei looks into loneliness... How do we understand it, respond to it? What's at the root of it? Can we experience the richness of it?

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00:45:04

Feeding Not Fighting: Meeting Machig Labdrön

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2024/08/03

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 8/3/24 - Hojin Sensei offers the wisdom of Machig Labdrön, a Tibetan teacher who lived between the eleventh and twelfth centuries. From an adept at a very young age, to motherhood, to teacher, to establishing the practice of Chöd, her life and teachings have been a great source of inspiration, as Hojin enthusiastically shares with the sangha.

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01:08:13

Tokudo: Monastic Ordination for Sekku Harrison

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2024/07/28

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - 7/28/24 - In this morning ceremony, Hojin Sensei offers teachings on the Monastic Vows and the Moral & Ethical Precepts of Zen Buddhism, on the occasion of the full Monastic ordination of Simon Daiō Sekku Harrison, one of Hojin Sensei’s long-time students.

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00:06:36

Karenji Choir, “The Way of the Bodhisattva”

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2024/02/26

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 Weber. We wanted to share this performance with you. We hope you enjoy it!

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00:40:48

Courage: The Great Thing

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2024/02/09

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 moments with a "thank you." Now what's true?

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00:38:58

Fusatsu: Making Fresh

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2023/12/31

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei ZCNYC - 12/31/23 - Fusatsu offers us the opportunity to make fresh again our vows in the world. To recognize and renew the deepest way that we are; our virtuous life, the life of a Buddha that we each are.

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00:45:01

Lingzhao’s Helping

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2023/12/03

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 12/3/23 - 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 somebody’s support? And do we ever know that we are helping?

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00:48:15

Senjo & Her Soul Are Separated. Which Is the Real One?

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2023/11/30

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 11/26/23 - Hojin presents a koan based on a Chinese folk tale that takes on the question of identity, and speaks about its relevance for us today.

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00:36:09

Soma Rebukes Mara

Jody Hojin Kimmel ·

2023/11/26

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 11/12/23 - From "The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women" - Hojin Sensei examines the nature of Mara, the "lord of delusion," who comes to Soma and to all of us in many forms. What are the particular ways in which Mara hooks us? How can we bring awareness to Mara's revelations about our delusion, while not giving those voices more power?

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