MC Podcasts – Mountain Cloud Zen Center

Oct 29 2024 30 ep. 43 mins 41

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Zen Podcast series based on Mountain Cloud Zen Center’s Thursday evening dharma talks that explore classical koans of Zen. The podcasts help us in our mission of offering core Zen training in the lineage of Sanbo Zen to create healthier and kinder lives for all, while also supporting our Three Treasures Prison Project in which we work with inmates in a maximum security prison, as well as serving the immediate community of Santa Fe, New Mexico, our international sangha, and the broader world community of all beings.

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Kali Basman: Cultivating Wonder

Oct 29 2024 33 mins

Kali invites us to examine the wide array of features that comprise “The Practice Field,” the many aspects of our path of practice. She states that as a species we

Spring Retreat Talk 4, Gathering the Heart Mind with Valerie Forstman

May 16 2023 56 mins

Dwelling no-where, mind comes forth~ from the Diamond Sutra Heart mind directs us to the fundamental point of who and what we are. In Chinese there is one term for

Spring Retreat Talk 3, The Boat is on the River with Valerie Forstman

May 09 2023 41 mins

Valerie explores the clarity and simplicity of Master Hogen who came to be known as the dharma eye of deep clarity. Focusing on Case 51 from Book of Equanimity, Valerie

Spring Retreat Talk 2, The Stone Bridge: Crossing Over with Valerie Forstman

May 02 2023 44 mins

Something puts our feet on this path, starting from the ordinary dualistic world. Gradually, as we practice and practice, in some unguarded moment, everything falls away, and it’s just this.

Spring Retreat Talk 1, Joshu’s Dog: Crossing Over, Fully Arrived with Valerie Forstman

Apr 25 2023 39 mins

Crossing over to the other shore is the heart of our practice and the heart of Buddha’s teaching. Eventually we realize that we were always on the shore, here and

Dharmatalk: Diamond Sutra and Living Beings with Maria Habito

Mar 17 2023 51 mins

“Abiding no-where mind comes forth.” Maria Habito returns to Mountain Cloud’s zoom zendo and talks about the Diamond Sutra. When we enter deep silence, the diamond cuts through every notion

Rohatsu 2022: Day 6, Vibes, Awakening and What then? with Henry Shukman

Mar 07 2023 45 mins

For this final Rohatsu talk, Henry looks at three questions. What are we doing here, just sitting with each other? What is awakening? and What then? We are living “it”

Rohatsu 2022: Day 5, Cannot Get Wet, Cannot Get Dry with Valerie Forstman

Feb 28 2023 53 mins

In this talk from day 5 of the Rohatsu sesshin, Valerie picks up on the previous day’s talk by Henry where he presents the title and first line of the

Rohatsu 2022: Day 4, Prajnaparamitra, The Heart Sutra with Henry Shukman

Feb 07 2023 39 mins

What is this practice? Why do it? Essentially, it’s all about slowing down and things falling away. Our very existence, our being gets simpler. Henry looks at the title and

Rohatsu 2022: Day 3, All-Inclusive Awakening with Valerie Forstman

Jan 17 2023 40 mins

In celebration of Shakyamuni Buddha’s awakening, Valerie takes up the Head Chapter of the Denkoroku or Transmission of Light. “I and the great earth and all beings simultaneously attain the