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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast, 100 episodes.

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Dharma Encounter: The Yes and No of Buddha Nature

2

Pushing Down, Lifting Up

3

Fusatsu: Using Our Delusions To Awaken

4

It Exists from the Very Beginning

5

The Nature of Experience

6

Jukai Ceremony with Shugen Roshi at ZMM – October 2026

7

You Have “No Buddha” Nature

8

Fusatsu: Be Still and Heal

9

Dharma Encounter: Bringing Our True Nature to Life

10

Beyond Yes and No

11

Fusatsu: Renewing Our Humanity

12

Living Beings Are Buddha Nature

13

Offering This Buddha Nature

14

Transform A Vow Into Action

15

The Form of Buddha Nature

16

Jukai at Fire Lotus Temple with Hojin Sensei

17

Ch’ien and Her Soul are Separated

18

When the Word ‘Should’ Begins to Shine

19

Ango Opening Talk at ZMM with Shugen Roshi

20

Ango Opening Remarks at Fire Lotus Temple

21

Taking Up Zen Training

22

Standing in the World

23

Inspiration, Aspiration

24

Can you Relate?

25

Good Qualities

26

Look! Look!

27

This Life

28

Just Walking

29

Effort And Aliveness

30

The Five Remembrances – Wise Reaching Outs

31

Taking Up Mind Training

32

Avian Traces

33

Faith In Our Totally Free Nature

34

In Silence There Is Illumination

35

In Daytime The Sun, At Night The Moon

36

Painting the Whole Picture

37

Every Day Is A Good Day

38

Actualizing Buddha Ancestors

39

Impermanence And Ease

40

Not Really Separate At All

41

Oh! Really?

42

Contemplating Buddha

43

Living in Inquiry

44

The Inner Wilderness

45

Dharma Encounter with Shugen Roshi

46

Does That Person See It, Or Not?

47

What Can’t Be Fought For

48

A Rice Cake. Just A Rice Cake.

49

Mind and Environment

50

Fusatsu: Right Speech

51

Dark to the Mind, Radiant to the Heart

52

Calling and Responding

53

The Spring’s Knee-Deep Mud

54

The Sanctuary Is Built Here

55

Dharma Encounter: Gathering Life Energy

56

Grass Grows On The Path

57

Fusatsu: Energy For Awakening

58

Wonderous Jewel, Never Hidden

59

Not To Be Hindered

60

Jukai Ceremony at ZMM with Shugen Roshi – April 2026

61

Fusatsu: Unsurpassable Giving

62

Do You Know the Self—or Not?

63

Dharma Encounter: Wisdom and Compassion

64

Acupuncture Needle of Zazen

65

Finding the Monastery in Samsara

66

Entering the Wilderness

67

Just Resting, While Freely Going Forth

68

Spring 2026 Ango Opening Talk – “The Turning Words of Hongzhi”

69

Ango Opening Talk at Fire Lotus Temple

70

Aspects of Giving

71

Come to Rest in Actuality

72

So Many Hands and Eyes

73

It’s Right Here

74

Vimalakirti’s Gate of Non-Duality

75

Mirror, Mirror ! – Reflecting without Division

76

Bodhisattva of Great Compassion

77

Metta Sutra As Practice

78

Shaping the World of Experience

79

Metta Sutra As Instructions

80

Do Not Disappoint Yourself

81

Circle of the Way Is Never Cut Off

82

Coming Together – Falling Apart

83

Meditation and Wisdom, Function and Essence

84

Pursuing The Buddha Way – Bendowa

85

What You Ought To Be

86

Practicing the Path: Right Effort

87

Missing It, Seeing It

88

An Auspicious Year

89

Fusatsu for the New Year

90

Apparently Effortless

91

The Wind Or The Flag

92

Ascending The Mountain Seat

93

Dana Paramita, Bodhisattva Practice

94

Novice Ordination for Shindo Kisch

95

Forget Government, Forget Anarchy

96

Ordinary Mind is the Way

97

The Wind That Reaches Everywhere

98

What’s Ordinary?

99

The Journey We are On

100

Faith Verified Extends Our Faith