​Interview with Head of Mountains and Rivers Order, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi. Shugen Roshi discusses what Zen practice has to offer us, how it can help us to live more freely, how meditation can help us to become less caught by our emotions or pain, and speaks about our tendency to try to control and how our practice can transform this. He also shares shifts that he has experienced through his 30+ years of Zen practice and what is happening in New Zealand in the Mountains and Rivers Order affiliate groups throughout the year.  
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Shugen Roshi visits NZ yearly to run Buddhist retreats, weeklong meditation intensives (sesshin) and to offer Zen training to both newcomers and experienced practitioners.

Teachings Library

Zen Mountain Monastery and the Zen Center of New York City provide a rich array of audio that is updated weekly. This is a great opportunity for practitioners in New Zealand to connect with the dharma and teachers in the Mountains and Rivers Order, helping us to keep our practice fresh and vibrant. By subscribing to this podcast you will receive dharma talks, instructor interviews and slices of life from Zen Mountain Monastery, Zen Center of New York City, Mountain Record quarterly journal, and The Monastery Store.  (The below audio is a small sample of what's available on the ZMM podcast and isn't as regularly updated.)
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Talks from July Sesshin, NZ 2017

Talk on the Faith Mind Poem

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
Rotoiti Lodge, New Zealand, 19/07/2017

Daitsu Chisho Buddha

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
Rotoiti Lodge, New Zealand, 20/07/2017

Talks from the Temple / Monastery

Sympathetic Joy

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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Dharma Holder
Zen Mountain Monastery, 12/28/2016

On Mindfulness

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
​Zen Mountain Monastery, 12/18/2016

Mondo: Lineage and Transmission

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
Informal discussion with students on lineage, transmission and different forms of Zen practice within the MRO
Zen Center of New York City, 12/14/16

​Not to Disregard a Single Being

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
This talk includes information about Ron Hogen Green Sensei’s dharma transmission
Zen Mountain Monastery, 12/11/2016
From the Record of Master Dongshan

​Equanimity

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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Dharma Holder
Zen Center of New York City, 11/13/2016

​Walking the Path of Peace

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 11/13/2016

​Who… Are… You?

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​Jody Hojin Kimmel, Osho
Zen Mountain Monastery 11/6/2016
From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 5, “Advice of the Caterpillar”

I Arise Today

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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Dharma Holder
Zen Mountain Monastery, 11/4/2016
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Zuisei offered this talk during Wild Grasses Sesshin: A Meditation Intensive for Women.

A Letter From Our Friend

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Ron Hogen Green, Dharma Holder
Zen Center of New York City, 11/2/2016
From Master Dogen’s Genjokoan

Take Care of Today

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
The Gateless Gate, Case 23: “Think Neither Good Nor Evil”

“I encourage all of us to take care of today—and realize how large today is and how much it includes. There’s nothing left out of it.”

​Changsha Advancing a Step

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery 10/22/2016
Book of Serenity, Case 79

Compassion

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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Dharma Holder
​Zen Center of New York City, 10/16/2016

The Bell Sound and the Priest’s Robe

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Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei
Zen Mountain Monastery, 10/2/2016
The Gateless Gate, Case 16