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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast — 110 episodes

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Title
1

Contemplating Buddha

2

The Inner Wilderness

3

Dharma Encounter with Shugen Roshi

4

Does That Person See It, Or Not?

5

What Can’t Be Fought For

6

A Rice Cake. Just A Rice Cake.

7

Mind and Environment

8

Fusatsu: Right Speech

9

Dark to the Mind, Radiant to the Heart

10

Calling and Responding

11

The Spring’s Knee-Deep Mud

12

The Sanctuary Is Built Here

13

Dharma Encounter: Gathering Life Energy

14

Grass Grows On The Path

15

Fusatsu: Energy For Awakening

16

Wonderous Jewel, Never Hidden

17

Jukai Ceremony at ZMM with Shugen Roshi – April 2026

18

Fusatsu: Unsurpassable Giving

19

Do You Know the Self—or Not?

20

Acupuncture Needle of Zazen

21

Finding the Monastery in Samsara

22

Entering the Wilderness

23

Just Resting, While Freely Going Forth

24

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

25

Ango Opening Talk at Fire Lotus Temple

26

Aspects of Giving

27

Come to Rest in Actuality

28

So Many Hands and Eyes

29

It’s Right Here

30

Vimalakirti’s Gate of Non-Duality

31

Mirror, Mirror ! – Reflecting without Division

32

Bodhisattva of Great Compassion

33

Metta Sutra As Practice

34

Shaping the World of Experience

35

Metta Sutra As Instructions

36

Do Not Disappoint Yourself

37

Circle of the Way Is Never Cut Off

38

Coming Together – Falling Apart

39

Meditation and Wisdom, Function and Essence

40

Pursuing The Buddha Way – Bendowa

41

What You Ought To Be

42

Practicing the Path: Right Effort

43

Missing It, Seeing It

44

An Auspicious Year

45

Fusatsu for the New Year

46

Apparently Effortless

47

The Wind Or The Flag

48

Ascending The Mountain Seat

49

Dana Paramita, Bodhisattva Practice

50

Novice Ordination for Shindo Kisch

51

Forget Government, Forget Anarchy

52

Ordinary Mind is the Way

53

The Wind That Reaches Everywhere

54

What’s Ordinary?

55

The Journey We are On

56

Faith Verified Extends Our Faith

57

Shoan Sensei’s Dharma Transmission Vows and a Talk with Shugen Roshi and Shoan Sensei

58

Jukai Ceremony at ZMM, November 2025

59

Fusatsu: Pure Heart Pure Mind

60

Air is Life, Water is Life

61

Dharma Encounter: Sustaining What is True

62

Beyond Our View

63

Fusatsu: Encountering Our Own Completeness

64

Come Closer

65

Gaining Enlightenment

66

Tending the Lamp

67

Firewood Does Not Become Ash

68

Genjokoan Dharma Encounter

69

Not Separate From Yourself

70

Fusatsu: Make Fresh

71

The Secret Ingredient

72

To Study The Self, To Forget The Self

73

Practicing The Path: Right Action & Right Livelihood

74

Deepening of Faith, Doubt & Determination

75

Reclaiming Royal Ease

76

Invoking A Vast Love

77

Being Still

78

Practicing the Path: Right Intention

79

Practicing the Path: Right Understanding

80

Compassionate Interdependence

81

Entering the Gate of Wonder

82

Relaxing Completely

83

Being One With: Fusatsu

84

Fusatsu: Skillful Means In the Forms of Practice

85

Practicing With Intention

86

Practice Instructions

87

Hogen Sensei: Dharma Encounter on Non-Deception

88

Gently Working With Distraction

89

Sincerity in Practice

90

Lesson from a Goddess

91

The Power Of Stillness

92

The Bodhisattva’s World

93

Space Beyond Knowing

94

Everything is in the Heart

95

Do I Die, Or Do I Live?

96

A Lifetime of Alchemy—Fusatsu Talk

97

Dharma Encounter with Hogen Sensei

98

Heartbreak and Wholeness

99

Having Power on the Road

100

Living Dharma In Ease And Joy

101

Your Relationship With Mt Tremper

102

Dharma Encounter: On the Courage to Listen

103

Doing Wrong on the Road to Blessedness

104

Leading the People

105

The Lion’s Roar: Your Roar

106

Living An Appropriate Life

107

Our Practice of Awakening: Endless Pivot Points

108

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

109

Jukai Ceremony at Fire Lotus Temple, August 2023

110

The World is not Conclusion