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://wwww.clearmountainmonastery.org.
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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 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 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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輪迴中的我們,都是迷路的小孩, 準備這些地圖,願你早日啟程。 迷途中的指南針, 黑暗中的一盞燈, 燥熱中的清涼泉, 寒霜中的溫暖焰。 四念處禪修課程 師資:隆波帕默尊者、阿姜宋彩尊者、阿姜給尊者、阿姜塔努宋尊者、麥琪奧蘭努、阿姜巴山、阿姜蘇納瓦、阿姜納、阿姜妮、阿姜松 靜慮林網站:www.shineling.org 走,修行吧!App:www.godhamma.alicloud1688.com/
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Spiritual Readings from Holy Cross Monastery
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The Art of Discipline: Lay Vinaya & Building a Buddhist Life | Ajahn Nisabho
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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 Morning Meditation, Teaching, & Coffee Social (9:30 - 11 am PT, Online & In-Person) - Sunday Evening “Mission Majjhima!” Sutta Teaching & Discussion (5:00 - 6 pm PT, Onli…
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Order of Immediate Light - 11-17-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 11/17/24 - We often ask ourselves in response to outside conditions: what do we do now? Our typical reactive, worrying state is often laying on extra trouble as we search for ways to act, to respond. While we have intrinsic, perfect buddha nature and can rely on this, we also live in the midst of strong forces of kar…
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Br. Francis Daniel Beckham's sermon for the Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 28 B, November 17, 2024
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Practicing in Accord with the Dharma
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Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic and Dharma Holder - ZMM - 11/17/24 - Continuing with Bodhidharma’s teachings on the "Two Entrances", dharma holder Gokan explores how “all inclusive practice” includes even our struggles, our discomfort. He asks, when does “practicing the dharma” actually happen? And when are habits, views and the tendency to …
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”Times Are Urgent; We Need to Slow Down” | Ayya Santaciitā
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In this talk, Ayya Santacittā speaks about how, in the face of a chaotic world, we can fortify the heart with a sense of patience, equipoise, and the steady intention of the earthworm—making space amidst the pressure of surrounding dark. The talk is followed by a meditation on the body as elements and not-self. Biography Santacitta Bhikkhuni was bo…
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A Lifetime of Alchemy—Fusatsu Talk
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Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - 11/15/24 - Our ordinary life experiences are what we work with in practice; “a lifetime of alchemy” as Shoan Osho notes in this Fusatsu talk. This ancient practice gives us the tools with which to transform karma, in how we can recognize, acknowledge, and atone for our actions. In this way we can heal and live fully in a…
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What’s Your Brahmavihāra? And Locating Your Lineage! | Tuere Sala Q&A
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Tuere Sala, Guiding Teacher at Seattle Insight Meditation Society and the founding teacher of the Capitol Hill Meditation Group. They speak about Tuere's path to the Dhamma, the difficulty People of Color have entering largely white Dhamma groups, the potency of the Thai Forest Tradition, de…
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Invite It In - 11-13-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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https://youtu.be/Y6FEv6ts0fEAv Sokuzan
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Jukai Ceremony at ZMM, November 2024
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - 11/10/24 - Shugen Roshi officiates the November 2024 Ango Jukai ceremony at Zen Mountain Monastery. Today, four students formally receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts, taking up these living teachings, living vows in the company of the sangha with family and friends: Jill Kisho Hamer (Radiant Star), Jonathan Dokan C…
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Br. Ephrem Arcement's sermon for the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 27 B, November 10, 2024
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The Goldsmith’s Guide to Inner Perfection... & the Election | Ajahn Nisabho
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In this talk, Ajahn Nisabho speaks about how we can hold the political upheavals of the world with equanimity, turning towards their challenges as sources of growth rather than suffering. If approached with wisdom, such difficulties can become the flame that purifies the heart's gold, as in AN 3.101 (https://suttacentral.net/an3.101/en/thanissaro?l…
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What You're Taking For Granted - 11-10-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Karaniya Metta Sutta: Chant of Loving Kindness
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei 11/9/24 - Hojin Sensei introduces this chant, an essential means to connect body and mind, to draw out our inherent love and kindness, always needed, especially now. If you don't already have it, you can download the Sutta here: https://zmm.org/teachings-and-training/liturgy/karaniya-metta-sutta/…
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 11/3/24 - Hojin Sensei encourages us to stay focused, remain alert and aware and to not run away from what comes up. To turn towards practice. To remember that we each have good medicine as practitioners to meet our life, to protect and guard the mind of goodness. Then in turn to offer the Bodhi mind of love, wis…
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EARLY PREMIER! A Behind-the-Huts Tour of a Monastery’s Private Book Collection | Ajahn Sona Q&A
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In this special session recorded in late October 2024, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho take a tour of Birken Forest Monastery's "Forbidden Library" and interview Ajahn Sona about a selection of books from its shelves, including: - The Republic by Plato - The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy - The Seven Storey Mountain by Merton - Walden by Thoreau - A…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 11/03/24 - Koans often come from literary sources, and MRO founder Daido Roshi brought us this dialogue from Alice’s adventures in "Through the Looking Glass" to offer a path of well-being as dharma practice. Even in the midst of conflict, extreme differences of opinion or sudden changes, Shugen Roshi says, we …
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Avatamsava Sutra (The Flower Garlard Sutra) - 11-06-24 with Chiezan - sokukoji.org
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Br. Robert Leo Sevensky's sermon for the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 26 B, November 3, 2024
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We Want Our Way - 11-03-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Voting for Sanity Amongst Voting Calamity | Ajahn Kovilo
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In this session, given just a few days before Election Day 2024, Ajahn Kovilo encourages spaciousness of heart, tranquility in abandoning unhelpful doubt, noticing and curbing the "fault-finding mind", and learning how not attach to views. Tune in with fellow practitioners for Clear Mountain’s weekly online and hybrid events! - Wednesday Evening Te…
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Br. Josep Martinez-Cubero's sermon for All Saint's Day, November 1, 2024
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Outrageous Teaching - 10/30/24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Dharma Encounter with Hogen Sensei
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Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 10/27/24 - Bodhicitta is simply the aspiration to save all others from suffering. Along the way, how do we go forward on an ever shifting and bumpy path? This lively dharma encounter with Hogen Sensei and the sangha is tender and encouraging of all our aspirations to be of benefit in an ever changing world.…
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The Dhamma of Body, Speech, & Mind | Ayya Suvijjānā & Ayya Niyyānika
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In this talk, Ayya Suvijjānā & Ayya Niyyānika of Passaddhi Vihara join Clear Mountain, teaching on how to align bodily, verbal, & mental formations (kāyasaṅkhārā, vacīsaṅkhārā, & cittasaṅkhārā) to move the mind towards calm. A canonical description of the three forms of activity may be found in the MN 44, Cūḷavedalla Sutta (https://suttacentral.net…
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Mountains & Rivers XXXVII - 10-27-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 10/26/24 - Gateless Gate, Case 37 - Selflessness is what makes a paramita a “perfection.” To explore the wisdom paramita, Shugen Roshi takes up Shantideva’s description of the two truths of the relative and absolute. The two truths describe a reality in the mind of one who does not grasp on to appearances as re…
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZMM - 10/25/24 - Who are these guardian beings we encounter on altars and at doorways throughout the temple and monastery? And what is true protection of oneself and others? Hojin Sensei explores how in taking refuge in the dharma we also enter the protective spirit realm, the protective realm of practicing together.…
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Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 10/24/24 - Within a poem by the monastic Ryōkan, senior lay student Yunen finds encouragement to practice for the benefit of others, with heartfelt reverence. He explores dharma teachings on how we construct our sense of a separate self, and the simple and wholly human tendency to benefit others befor…
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Vowing and Bowing: From the Sensual to the Potential | Ajahn Achalo Q&A
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho interview Ajahn Achalo, founder of Anandagiri Monastery! Biography of Ajahn Achalo: Ajahn Achalo was born in Brisbane Australia in 1972. He developed a keen interest in meditation at the age of twenty and a year later left for Thailand to study Buddhism more intently. After a two year period practisin…
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 10/23/24 - Gateless Gate, Case 8 - Xiangyan Makes Carts - The concentration of a master craftsperson can be a samadhi-like experience. But this type of concentration does not always carry forward to our activities of living, or help in facing the challenges there. In this sesshin talk Shugen Roshi describes how…
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Danica Shoan Ankele, Osho - ZMM - 10/20/24 - Exploring vow, presence, and contact with the sacred mystery of our precious human lives, Shoan Osho encourages us to see the medicine in how we encounter the world and what can feel like relentless suffering. Rather than shutting down or feeling hopeless when your heart breaks, she encourages, you can l…
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Theravāda Themes in Translation PART 2 | Bhikkhu Bodhi Q&A
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In this session - Part 2 of 2 - Ajahn Kovilo interviews Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi on the topic of Theravāda Themes in Translation. Through chronologically surveying the main corpus of his translations, Bhikkhu Bodhi discusses various themes found throughout Theravāda Buddhism and suggests how they can be more fully understood as they move from Southe…
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Theravāda Themes in Translation PART 1 | Bhikkhu Bodhi Q&A
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In this session - Part 1 of 2 - Ajahn Kovilo interviews Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi on the topic of Theravāda Themes in Translation. Through chronologically surveying the main corpus of his translations, Bhikkhu Bodhi discusses various themes found throughout Theravāda Buddhism and suggests how they can be more fully understood as they move from Southe…
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The Thirteenth Daughter Steps Forward
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 10/13/24 - Stepping forward is essential to be truly alive. It’s also the only way to learn, both where we are being genuine and true, and where we are stuck. It takes courage to give everything and risk failure, but the only way to get past relying on success or failure is in taking the next step, freeing ours…
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Br. Bernard Delcourt's sermon for the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 24 B October 20, 2024
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The Body is Nature; the Mind is Free | Ayya Ānandabodhī
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In this session, Ayya Ānandabodhī, founder of Pārāyana Vihara, speaks about the mind's tendency to lose itself in thoughts of the past and future, and our need to purify the heart so that the present moment becomes a place of deep abiding, regardless of external circumstances. Ayya Anandabodhī's Bio: Ayya Ānandabodhī was born and raised in Wales, U…
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Protect The Mirror - 10-20-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 10/6/24 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 39 - Zhaozhou's "Wash Your Bowl"- One of the hallmarks of Zen teaching is that the deepest truth is indivisible from the most ordinary moment. When we release our habitual, grasping mind, then the whole universe can come alive, and we can awaken to our boundless nature …
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See What This Is - 10-16-24 with SOkuzan - sokukoji.org
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Br. Randy Greve's sermon for the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 23 B October 13, 2024
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Monastics for Skeptics & Space for Faith | Clear Mountain Communty
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In this Community Stories session, different Clear Mountaineers share how they came to the Dhamma and what it's meant to their lives. Those who so generously shared include Betsy, Matthew Riggins, Matt Warning, James, Yanett, Tyler, Roya, Andrew, and Axel. Sadhu! Tune in with fellow practitioners for Clear Mountain’s weekly online and hybrid events…
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SokukoJi Community Mindfulness Center
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Testimonials from eight Sangha members of SokukoJi Buddhist Community, reflecting on their personal journeys into SokukoJi Buddhist practices, and the benefits of a fully accessible, public Community Mindfulness Center for Battle Creek, MI.Av Sokuzan
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Help Others - 10-13-24 with Sokuzan - sokukoji.org
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Grief, Love, & Chocolate Potatoes (early premier at 5:40 pm Wed. Oct. 16) | Sharon Salzberg Q&A
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In this interview, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho speak with renowned teacher Sharon Salzberg about her path to faith (and India!), her experience with renowned spiritual teachers including Dipa Ma, navigating deep grief, politics, and the more religious elements of Buddhism the West. Bio Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teac…
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Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - 10/6/24 - Hojin Sensei explores the question of: What is true protection in our practice and for the world? Buddha once said to King Pasenadi, “your good karma, your good thought, words and good deeds; these are your protections, protection against yourself and your own unskillful habits, and protection against the unski…
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Generosity -10-14-24 - Basic Buddhist Teachings with Chiezan - sokukoji.org
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The Bitter Pills of Buddhism: Hard but Healthy Truths | Ajahn Kovilo & Ajahn Nisabho
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In this session, Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho discuss the "teeth" of Theravāda, that is, teachings of the Buddha which might be hard for some people to hear, including: - talk on renunciation - talk on ethics - talk about saṃsāra and more! Tune in with fellow practitioners for Clear Mountain’s weekly online and hybrid events! - Wednesday Evening …
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What It Means To Receive - 10-09-24 with Chiezan - sokukoji.org
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Compassion & Emptiness Weekend Retreat (Full) | Ajahn Kovilo & Ajahn Nisabho
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A series of talks from Ajahn Nisabho and Ajahn Kovilo's recent retreat in Twisp, WA, on "Compassion & Emptiness". The retreat drew heavily on materials from Bhante Analayo's "Brahmavihāras & Emptiness": https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/resources/compassion-audio/ Chapters (Talks) 00:00 - Talk 1: Ascent into Emptiness | Ajahn Nisabho 39:22 - Talk 2: …
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