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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast — 135 episodes
Ch’ien and Her Soul are Separated
Ango Opening Talk at ZMM with Shugen Roshi
Ango Opening Remarks at Fire Lotus Temple
Taking Up Zen Training
Standing in the World
Inspiration, Aspiration
Can you Relate?
Good Qualities
Look! Look!
This Life
Just Walking
Effort And Aliveness
The Five Remembrances – Wise Reaching Outs
Taking Up Mind Training
Avian Traces
Faith In Our Totally Free Nature
In Silence There Is Illumination
In Daytime The Sun, At Night The Moon
Painting the Whole Picture
Every Day Is A Good Day
Actualizing Buddha Ancestors
Impermanence And Ease
Not Really Separate At All
Oh! Really?
Contemplating Buddha
Living in Inquiry
The Inner Wilderness
Dharma Encounter with Shugen Roshi
Does That Person See It, Or Not?
What Can’t Be Fought For
A Rice Cake. Just A Rice Cake.
Mind and Environment
Fusatsu: Right Speech
Dark to the Mind, Radiant to the Heart
Calling and Responding
The Spring’s Knee-Deep Mud
The Sanctuary Is Built Here
Dharma Encounter: Gathering Life Energy
Grass Grows On The Path
Fusatsu: Energy For Awakening
Wonderous Jewel, Never Hidden
Jukai Ceremony at ZMM with Shugen Roshi – April 2026
Fusatsu: Unsurpassable Giving
Do You Know the Self—or Not?
Acupuncture Needle of Zazen
Finding the Monastery in Samsara
Entering the Wilderness
Just Resting, While Freely Going Forth
Spring 2026 Ango Opening Talk – “The Turning Words of Hongzhi”
Ango Opening Talk at Fire Lotus Temple
Aspects of Giving
Come to Rest in Actuality
So Many Hands and Eyes
It’s Right Here
Vimalakirti’s Gate of Non-Duality
Mirror, Mirror ! – Reflecting without Division
Bodhisattva of Great Compassion
Metta Sutra As Practice
Shaping the World of Experience
Metta Sutra As Instructions
Do Not Disappoint Yourself
Circle of the Way Is Never Cut Off
Coming Together – Falling Apart
Meditation and Wisdom, Function and Essence
Pursuing The Buddha Way – Bendowa
What You Ought To Be
Practicing the Path: Right Effort
Missing It, Seeing It
An Auspicious Year
Fusatsu for the New Year
Apparently Effortless
The Wind Or The Flag
Ascending The Mountain Seat
Dana Paramita, Bodhisattva Practice
Novice Ordination for Shindo Kisch
Forget Government, Forget Anarchy
Ordinary Mind is the Way
The Wind That Reaches Everywhere
What’s Ordinary?
The Journey We are On
Faith Verified Extends Our Faith
Shoan Sensei’s Dharma Transmission Vows and a Talk with Shugen Roshi and Shoan Sensei
Jukai Ceremony at ZMM, November 2025
Fusatsu: Pure Heart Pure Mind
Air is Life, Water is Life
Dharma Encounter: Sustaining What is True
Beyond Our View
Fusatsu: Encountering Our Own Completeness
Come Closer
Gaining Enlightenment
Tending the Lamp
Firewood Does Not Become Ash
Genjokoan Dharma Encounter
Not Separate From Yourself
Fusatsu: Make Fresh
The Secret Ingredient
To Study The Self, To Forget The Self
Practicing The Path: Right Action & Right Livelihood
Deepening of Faith, Doubt & Determination
Reclaiming Royal Ease
Invoking A Vast Love
Being Still
Practicing the Path: Right Intention
Practicing the Path: Right Understanding
Compassionate Interdependence
Entering the Gate of Wonder
Relaxing Completely
Being One With: Fusatsu
Fusatsu: Skillful Means In the Forms of Practice
Practicing With Intention
Practice Instructions
Hogen Sensei: Dharma Encounter on Non-Deception
Gently Working With Distraction
Sincerity in Practice
Lesson from a Goddess
The Power Of Stillness
The Bodhisattva’s World
Space Beyond Knowing
Everything is in the Heart
Do I Die, Or Do I Live?
A Lifetime of Alchemy—Fusatsu Talk
Dharma Encounter with Hogen Sensei
Heartbreak and Wholeness
Having Power on the Road
Living Dharma In Ease And Joy
Your Relationship With Mt Tremper
Dharma Encounter: On the Courage to Listen
Doing Wrong on the Road to Blessedness
Leading the People
The Lion’s Roar: Your Roar
Living An Appropriate Life
Our Practice of Awakening: Endless Pivot Points
In one, there is many. In many, only one.
Jukai Ceremony at Fire Lotus Temple, August 2023
The World is not Conclusion