Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 4/7/24 - From The Hidden Lamp: Collection of Stories of Twenty Five Centuries of Awakened Women - What is grief? Can we respect it? Not fear it? Really let it work us in and through our embodiment allowing its raw ingredients to scour our beautiful hearts into release into the impermanence that is the Buddha Way. Hojin reflects on her own relationship to ‘Good Grief’ and her love for Satsujo’s appropriate response, maybe not quite what we would expect from a Dharma story and our ideas of how to let go of attachment ..read more

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 4/6/24 - Awakening From Illusion... Is that what we call the practice of the way? For awakening is not a one-time thing, a one-time event. But a continual awareness that needs to be continually maintained. Such maintenance as we well know may be difficult. It’s what we call practice. What supports do we have in our practice ..read more

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/30/24 - From the Koans of the Way of Reality - Xinyang's Sweet Melons - Being on the eve of the funeral of the monastery's beloved gardener, Senior monastic Choke Yukon, Abbot Shugen Roshi presents us, fittingly, with this koan from a collection compiled by the late John Daido Loori the founder of Zen Mountain Monastery ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 3/24/24 - Shoan Osho unfurls wide the themes of the Spring Ango -- Right Relationship, Gratitude, Interdependence -- by offering a cornucopia of teachings; from the verses of Mahapajapati, Buddha's aunt who raised him, to the 9th century Chinese master Xuefeng, bringing in her own teachers' words, along with Ross Gay's "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude ..read more

Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 2/11/24 - Drawing examples from Dogen and contemporary science, Yunen shares insights from the Buddhist teachings on liberation from suffering, and our relationship with our environment. (We apologize for our malfunctioning microphone during the first few minutes of this talk ..read more

Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 01/21/2024 - In this talk Yosha takes up the Five Strengths, which come down to us from the Lojong Mind Training of Atisha. These strengths are associated with the virtue or paramita of exertion; also translated as vigor, effort zeal, and diligence. So what does this mean to exert ourselves on this path of awakening ..read more

Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 1/14/24 - Drawing from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 1967 speech, titled, "Where Do We Go From Here?,” Shinji invokes his legacy and commitment to nonviolence and love, and his vision of the beloved community. She shares the importance of our Sangha taking on this work, and how we can do so grounded in the Buddhist teachings ..read more

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 3/17/24 - From The True Dharma Eye, Case 148 - Dongshan's 'Teachings of the Insentient" - What does it mean to realize the true nature of mind? If we say that we must "realize it ourselves" then what is it that we can share and communicate with each other? And what's the difference between us and the insentient when it comes to communicating this ..read more