The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast
Zen Mountain Monastery
4.6from 375 ratings
- 424
- Episodes
- 71
- Transcribed
- 375
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2003
- First episode
About The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast
The Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) is a Western Zen Buddhist lineage established by the late John Daido Loori Roshi and dedicated to sharing the dharma as it has been passed down, generation to generation, since the time of Shakyamuni Buddha. Zen Mountain Monastery, the main house of the Mountains and Rivers Order, is one of the West’s most respected Zen Buddhist monasteries and training centers. Nestled in New York’s beautiful Catskill Mountains, the Monastery draws its strength from the ancient tradition of Buddhist monasticism. Since 1980, the Monastery has offered spiritual practitioners traditional and innovative ways to engage the dharma through a wide range of retreats and residential programs that unfold within the context of authentic, full-time Zen monastic training. The Zen Center of New York City: Fire Lotus Temple is the city branch of Zen Mountain Monastery. Supporting home practitioners in the metropolitan area, ZCNYC offers varied practice opportunities within the Eight Gates training matrix.
- Publisher
- Zen Mountain Monastery
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Sept 2003
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
71 of 424 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
You Have “No Buddha” Nature
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dharma Encounter: Bringing Our True Nature to Life
26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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You Have “No Buddha” Nature
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What is important and what is less important? So in the Platform Sutra, it says, after Huanong made arrangements for his mother's welfare, he left. He traveled to the East Mountain where Hongren was teaching. They had this encounter. People from Lingnan have no Buddha nature. How can you become a Buddha? And Huynhung said, although there are people from the north and people from the south, there is ultimately no north or south in the Buddha nature. The body of the outsider himself and that of the high master, Hongren, are not the same. But what distinction is there in Buddha nature? So Buddha nature points to our fundamental nature, which has the fundamental capacity to awaken. to free ourselves of all that binds us, all that causes us and others harm, that helps us to see things as they really are and live in accord with reality, to be free of suffering and to alleviate others' suffering. […]
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- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
- Ron Hogen Green
- Danica Shoan Ankele
- Jody Hojin Kimmel
- Shugen Roshi
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 318 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 57 ratings
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