Dharma talks from monastics at Clear Mountain, an aspiring Buddhist Forest monastery in the greater Seattle area. The Forest Tradition represents a return to the simple way of life taught by the Buddha. Monastics aspire to live as the early disciples did: dwelling in the forest, studying the teachings, and devoting themselves to meditation. To learn more, visit https://www.clearmountainmonastery.org.
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Conversations at the intersection of contemplation and hardcore. This podcast focuses on themes such as Thomas Merton, punk and hardcore, social justice, history, religious studies and more.
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The Order of the Holy Cross is an Anglican Benedictine monastic community of men founded in 1884 by James Otis Sargent Huntington to provide a specifically North American expression of monasticism. Our commitment to worship and prayer has sustained our work since the 19th century. Our primary ministry is welcoming guests on individual and group retreats. Continue Community: https://www.facebook.com/holy.cross.west.park/See What We're Doing: https://www.instagram.com/holycross.westpark/Guest ...
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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 ...
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The show that hotdogs, grandstands, and make general fools of ourselves for at least two hours.
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Modernist Monastery is a podcast about the connection between ancient philosophical or spiritual practices and modern scientific research. More importantly, it’s a show about how to apply that connection to your everyday life.
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A podcast to inspire spiritual growth & cultural healing, hosted by pagan entrepreneur Danica Boyce.
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Spiritual Readings from Holy Cross Monastery
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A Buddhist Serenity Prayer & the MacGyver Mind: 3 Steps Past Your Ego’s Limit | Ajahn Kovilo
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo examines prayer and its potential use in Buddhist practice - exploring such issues as a possible place for prayer in a Buddhist contemplative life, specifics of how one might pray in a Buddhist sense, and offering reflections on the Serenity Prayer: May there be the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The co…
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Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Dharma Holder - 1/23/25 - The dharma song of Shitou describes the simplicity possible in the mind of practice. With this settled awareness we can see how habits are formed and re-formed again and again. Gokan brings alive the ease and gentleness that can become the mind of zazen as we practice letting go of habitual thoughts …
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Br. Ephrem Arcement's Sermon for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January 19, 2025
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The Dustbin of Otherness - 01-19-25 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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A Sacred Rebellion with Ryan Remington
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The conversation with Ryan Remington of A Sacred Rebellion was the best way to start 2025. His new book is available on Amazon, https://a.co/d/7iCDzNi. Ryan's honesty, raw approach to spirituality, and way of processing is refreshing. I hope you enjoy this podcast. The video version is on YouTube. You can support the work of Monastery by following …
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Joy at Last! Dhamma Practice as Alternative Energy Generation | Luang Por Vajiro Q&A
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CHAPTERS 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:21 Welcome 0:00:35 Luang Por Vajiro’s Biography 0:01:45 Luang Por’s Current Practice and Teachings 0:03:42 The Influence of Ajahn Chah and Luang Por Sumedho 0:09:45 Contrasting the Goenka/U Ba Khin and Forest Traditions 0:14:00 “Joy at Last to Know There Is No Happiness in the World” 0:15:55 The Most Sustaining Element f…
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It’s Not About The Dog
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/22/25 - From Master Wu-Men's Gateless Gate - Zhaozhou's "Mu" - Within the realm of words much can be known, but how do we study the realm which is inexpressible in words? The Buddha’s profound realization of true reality is accessible to everyone, but how do we walk that path? How does working with a koan tak…
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Bodhisattva’s Living Legacy
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 1/19/25 - Invoking the life and words of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Shugen Roshi celebrates his "living legacy": the power of love and its manifestation in the Beloved Community to heal a troubled world. He draws from King's speech on the "new phase of the civil rights struggle", given the year before his assassin…
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Intersectional Emptiness: Identity, Privilege, & Beyond | Ajahn Nisabho
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In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho speaks about the two levels of Right View taught by the Buddha, and how holding both allows us to honor the conditioned realm while also looking beyond it, both in terms of personal practice and social identity. Additionally, the Buddha provides us with a different paradigm for what constitutes true privilege in life, co…
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A Foam-Lump, a Bubble, and a Magician Walk Into a Mirage | Ajahns Kovilo & Nisabho
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho answer questions about the five aggregates (khandhas) of form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness, specifically addressing the Pheṇa Sutta (SN 22.95) in which the Buddha says that: 1. form (rūpa) is like a lump of foam 2. feeling (vedana) is like water bubble from a raindrop lan…
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When We Add On - 01-15-25 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Unbounded Love—More Powerful than Anger | Ayya Niyyānika
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In this talk, Ayya Niyyānika, speaks about how to cultivate a sense of care instead of aversion to the circumstances of the world. My mind will not get bent out of shape And no evil speech will I spew With kind care And continued warm heart No anger inside Is the way to go in all situations. Ayyā Niyyānika's Bio: Ayyā Niyyānika is a fully ordained …
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At the Heart Of Your Path
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 1/12/25 - Gateless Gate, Case 16: The Bell's Sound and the Priest's Robe - We have these forms in Zen for meditation, for liturgy, for taking a meal and for practicing the dharma together. But what use is a form? How can we use forms without getting caught up in the form itself? To benefit from Zen practice as …
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Br. Robert Sevensky's Sermon for the First Sunday after the Epiphany/the Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ, January 12, 2025
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Mountains & Rivers XXXIX - 01-12-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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The Practice of True Reality
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Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Dharma Holder - 1/11/25 - Freeing ourselves of the suffering born of strong emotions, how do we keep the heart open and able to feel without overwhelm or shutting down? And how do we establish concentration and find the vast capacity of our minds? Gokan brings forth the grounded, supported way of being awake to all that is un…
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Coming Back! Different Dialects, Same Dhamma | Bhante Rāhula
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Bhante Rāhula of Paññābhūmi Monastery, Guadalajara, Mexico. To learn more about Bhante Rāhula and support Paññābhūmi Monastery: - email: bh.rahula@gmail.com - join Bhante's WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JEQSFwwuKwl83yQcUT1Bkw (Dhamma sharing in Spanish) - join Bhante's every Sund…
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The Illusion of Choosing - 01-08-25 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Br. Bruno Santana's Sermon for the Feast of the Epiphany of our Lord Jesus Christ, January 6, 2025
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How to Buddhist Habits: Gaming the Habit Loops of Dependent Origination | Ajahn Kovilo
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In this session, recorded on New Year's Eve 2024 as part of the Clear Mountain New Year's Vigil, Ajahn Kovilo reflects on insights gained from the book "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones" by James Clear and how they can support our practice of generosity, ethics, and wisdom. Ajahn Kovilo introduces the "habit…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 1/5/25 - From the Blue Cliff Record, Case 52 - Entering the new year, we can reflect on how we are holding our practice, how it supports our connection with others, and whether we are clear on our aspiration to practice well. To take up the practice of selflessness means we let go of high and low, better than and les…
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Path of Enlightenment: Stage 1 – Searching for the Ox
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 1/5/2025 - What are we seeking? The spiritual journey is a path of discovering our true nature. The Ten Ox Herding pictures are a pictorial depiction of the Zen training path of enlightenment. Hojin begins this talk with a live painting of the first oxherding picture: Searching for the Ox, followed by a talk on t…
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Merton & Methodist Awakening (2021 Version)
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This podcast is a talk given in 2021 for a class for Methodist studies with Dr. Charles Brockwell. The themes involve placing Thomas Merton's three awakenings (Red doors in NYC, Fourth and Walnut in Louisville, and barefoot facing the Buddha in Asia) with the three forms of grace (prevenient, justifying, and sanctifying) in Methodism. I hope this f…
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Tudong or Not Tudong: Transforming the World One Step at a Time | Tan Jāgaro
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In this talk, Tan Jāgaro speaks about how our individual Dhamma practice ripples out into the world around us, in particular referencing his experience wandering monastic "tudong" and walking for alms these past several years. Tune in with fellow practitioners for Clear Mountain’s weekly online and hybrid events! - Wednesday Evening Teaching & Disc…
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The Intention to Help - 01-05-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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This episode is a one off of sorts. It started as a project for a class on Care and Counseling with an artistic focus. It is my hope that it translates well for those wanting to seek ways that healing is not something quiet and safe in every experience. Let's chat about it. Email me at monasterypod@gmail.com or find me on social media.…
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Rage Ritual (or How RATM led me to seminary)
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This episode explores the impact that Rage Against the Machine has had on my becoming focused on liberation, justice, and solidarity. I credit their work as one of the main reasons I ended up in Louisville, reading Thomas Merton and more.Harley Dean Mathews
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Hear some of the thoughts around why I started Monastery Podcast.Harley Dean Mathews
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Relational Intelligence: The Individual-Relational Paradox & Insight Dialogue | Gregory Kramer
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Gregory Kramer, founder of the Insight Dialogue Community. To learn more about Gregory, visit: https://gregorykramer.org/ Brief Bio of Gregory: Gregory Kramer is the Founder and Guiding Teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community, and has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1980. He develop…
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Tracing Back to Love: Forgiveness & Understanding Conditionality | Ajahn Nisabho
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In this talk given during Clear Mountain's New Year's All-Night Vigil, Ajahn Nisabho speaks about how we can use an understanding of conditionality to help us forgive. Tune in with fellow practitioners for Clear Mountain’s weekly online and hybrid events! - Wednesday Evening Teaching & Discussion (6:00 – 7:30 pm PT, YouTube then Zoom) - Saturday Mo…
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Br. Josep Martinez-Cubero's Sermon for the Holy Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, January 1, 2025
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Fusatsu: New Years’ Good News
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/31/24 - All conditioned things are dukkha, but we are not bound by them nor are we limited by them. The Noble Path, which has come to us through others, works in any and every situation. We have Buddha Mind; we have pure undefiled nature. This is the way to offer the world some goodness through our aspiratio…
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Fusatsu: Wholehearted Bodhisattva Vows
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - 12/30/24 - This Fusatsu talk was given on the evening before New Years Eve to the sangha at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn on how practice is not linear and moves in a circle or spiral pattern. The Bodhisattva Vows behold the direction.Zen Mountain Monastery
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The Buddha Said (II)... - 01-01-25 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Langye’s Mountains and Rivers
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 12/30/24 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 100 - How does the purity of Buddha Nature still give rise to all the havoc, confusion, and suffering in our human lives? In this talk given during the Rohatsu sesshin, Shugen Roshi takes up this fundamental question: if all is emptiness and impermanence, what is it that nee…
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Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 12/29/24 - On a liberative path, we know we want to feel better but the enormity of the task, and the continuous “undoing” that it promises, can give pause. Shoan Osho explores the conditions of the Buddha’s enlightenment experience, and brings to the center Sujata’s role as the nourisher of life, as well as the co…
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Noble Path Talk – Kien Martin
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Kien Martin, MRO Monastic - ZCNYC - 12/29/24 - A Path of Faith, Doubt and Determination.Zen Mountain Monastery
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Br. Adam McCoy's Sermon for the First Sunday after Christmas Day, December 29, 2024
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The Buddha Said... - 12-29-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Losing All; Loving All: Rejoicing for the Sake of Liberation | Tan Tejadhammo
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In this talk, Tan Tejadhammo, visiting from Wat Marp Jan, speaks about the body as not-self, and how to cultivate the brahmavihāra of muditā, or sympathetic joy, even towards those we have aversion to. Tune in with fellow practitioners for Clear Mountain’s weekly online and hybrid events! - Wednesday Evening Teaching & Discussion (6:00 – 7:30 pm PT…
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How Are We Doing Right Now?
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Prabu Gikon Vasan, Senior Lay Practitioner - ZMM - 12/28/24 - In the Buddha’s early sutras there are teachings which encourage an honest assessment of our state of being, no matter what the circumstances, as the very stuff of our liberation. Senior lay student Gikon explores how dharma practice supports this sometimes difficult but deeply freeing i…
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”The Supreme Conduct is Disharmony with the World”: Lojong Mind-Training | Jetsuma Tenzin Palmo Q&A
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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:22 Welcome 00:40 Biography of Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 01:58 The Background of Atisha’s Lojong 03:58 Atisha’s First Verse and Jetsunma’s Dream of the Prison of Samsara 09:50 Viewing Atisha’s Lojong Training as “Precepts” 11:55 The Glimpse of the Mind and the Divine Resonance of the First Verse – Is this equivalent to Theravada…
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Mountains & Rivers XXXVIII - 12-25-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 12/22/24 - How do we practice ideals such as “morality” and “equality” and bring them to life? Invoking Wendell Berry’s text The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice, Shugen Roshi explores how words are too often used without clarity about their function in real life events, and how this is…
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Patched bucket, Bottomless bucket?
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 12/22/24 - Hojin Sensei introduces us to Ancestor Mugai Nyodai, the first woman Rinzai Abbot in the Zen tradition from 13th century, Japan. Referring to a story from The Hidden Lamp: Chiyono’s “No Water, No Moon”, Hojin brings up this ability to exercise our freedom to keep things together or let things come apar…
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Br. Robert James Magliula's sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 22, 2024
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Conversations No-one Wants to Have - 12-22-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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“Mom, I’m Becoming a Monk!” & Other Christmas Conversation-Killers | CMM Community
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In this "Q&A and Community Stories" session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho are joined by Tan Budhisaro from Thailand, answering questions about balancing worldly obligations and Dhamma, the practice of "Buddho" as samatha and vipassanā practice, and following one's calling to the Path. In the "Community Stories" section, Clear Mountain community m…
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Opening The Eye Mind - 12-18-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Sokuzan leads us through "Opening The Eye Mind" Awareness practice, using as the artwork, "Cornered" by Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) .Guston was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. In a career of constant struggle and evolution, Philip Guston emerged first in the 1930s as a social…
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Angels, Bodhisattvas, and Spontaneously Reborn Beings | Tan Tejadhammo Convo
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho speak with their friend Tan Tejadhammo of Wat Marp Jan about the existence of celestial beings (deva) and the utility of such a belief, as they each share stories of uncanny light. The link to the 6:45-7:30 pm Zoom session following the livestream may be found on the event listing at https://www.clear…
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