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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast — 118 episodes

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1

In Daytime The Sun, At Night The Moon

2

Painting the Whole Picture

3

Every Day Is A Good Day

4

Actualizing Buddha Ancestors

5

Impermanence And Ease

6

Not Really Separate At All

7

Oh! Really?

8

Contemplating Buddha

9

Living in Inquiry

10

The Inner Wilderness

11

Dharma Encounter with Shugen Roshi

12

Does That Person See It, Or Not?

13

What Can’t Be Fought For

14

A Rice Cake. Just A Rice Cake.

15

Mind and Environment

16

Fusatsu: Right Speech

17

Dark to the Mind, Radiant to the Heart

18

Calling and Responding

19

The Spring’s Knee-Deep Mud

20

The Sanctuary Is Built Here

21

Dharma Encounter: Gathering Life Energy

22

Grass Grows On The Path

23

Fusatsu: Energy For Awakening

24

Wonderous Jewel, Never Hidden

25

Jukai Ceremony at ZMM with Shugen Roshi – April 2026

26

Fusatsu: Unsurpassable Giving

27

Do You Know the Self—or Not?

28

Acupuncture Needle of Zazen

29

Finding the Monastery in Samsara

30

Entering the Wilderness

31

Just Resting, While Freely Going Forth

32

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

33

Ango Opening Talk at Fire Lotus Temple

34

Aspects of Giving

35

Come to Rest in Actuality

36

So Many Hands and Eyes

37

It’s Right Here

38

Vimalakirti’s Gate of Non-Duality

39

Mirror, Mirror ! – Reflecting without Division

40

Bodhisattva of Great Compassion

41

Metta Sutra As Practice

42

Shaping the World of Experience

43

Metta Sutra As Instructions

44

Do Not Disappoint Yourself

45

Circle of the Way Is Never Cut Off

46

Coming Together – Falling Apart

47

Meditation and Wisdom, Function and Essence

48

Pursuing The Buddha Way – Bendowa

49

What You Ought To Be

50

Practicing the Path: Right Effort

51

Missing It, Seeing It

52

An Auspicious Year

53

Fusatsu for the New Year

54

Apparently Effortless

55

The Wind Or The Flag

56

Ascending The Mountain Seat

57

Dana Paramita, Bodhisattva Practice

58

Novice Ordination for Shindo Kisch

59

Forget Government, Forget Anarchy

60

Ordinary Mind is the Way

61

The Wind That Reaches Everywhere

62

What’s Ordinary?

63

The Journey We are On

64

Faith Verified Extends Our Faith

65

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

66

Jukai Ceremony at ZMM, November 2025

67

Fusatsu: Pure Heart Pure Mind

68

Air is Life, Water is Life

69

Dharma Encounter: Sustaining What is True

70

Beyond Our View

71

Fusatsu: Encountering Our Own Completeness

72

Come Closer

73

Gaining Enlightenment

74

Tending the Lamp

75

Firewood Does Not Become Ash

76

Genjokoan Dharma Encounter

77

Not Separate From Yourself

78

Fusatsu: Make Fresh

79

The Secret Ingredient

80

To Study The Self, To Forget The Self

81

Practicing The Path: Right Action & Right Livelihood

82

Deepening of Faith, Doubt & Determination

83

Reclaiming Royal Ease

84

Invoking A Vast Love

85

Being Still

86

Practicing the Path: Right Intention

87

Practicing the Path: Right Understanding

88

Compassionate Interdependence

89

Entering the Gate of Wonder

90

Relaxing Completely

91

Being One With: Fusatsu

92

Fusatsu: Skillful Means In the Forms of Practice

93

Practicing With Intention

94

Practice Instructions

95

Hogen Sensei: Dharma Encounter on Non-Deception

96

Gently Working With Distraction

97

Sincerity in Practice

98

Lesson from a Goddess

99

The Power Of Stillness

100

The Bodhisattva’s World

101

Space Beyond Knowing

102

Everything is in the Heart

103

Do I Die, Or Do I Live?

104

A Lifetime of Alchemy—Fusatsu Talk

105

Dharma Encounter with Hogen Sensei

106

Heartbreak and Wholeness

107

Having Power on the Road

108

Living Dharma In Ease And Joy

109

Your Relationship With Mt Tremper

110

Dharma Encounter: On the Courage to Listen

111

Doing Wrong on the Road to Blessedness

112

Leading the People

113

The Lion’s Roar: Your Roar

114

Living An Appropriate Life

115

Our Practice of Awakening: Endless Pivot Points

116

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

117

Jukai Ceremony at Fire Lotus Temple, August 2023

118

The World is not Conclusion