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- 🇺🇸US · Buddhism#18300K to 1M
- 🇬🇧GB · Buddhism#44100K to 300K
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608K to 2.0M🇺🇸50%🇬🇧15%🇦🇺5%+20 more - Active Followers
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Not Really Separate At All
Jun 21, 2026
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Oh! Really?
Jun 14, 2026
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Contemplating Buddha
Jun 14, 2026
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Living in Inquiry
Jun 13, 2026
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The Inner Wilderness
Jun 7, 2026
39m 52s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/21/26 | ![]() Not Really Separate At All | Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 6/21/26 - The sense of separation — from life, from happiness, from anything we feel apart from — lies at the root of what brings many of us to a spiritual path. The Buddha taught that suffering arises from the duality created by conceptual thinking. To truly end our troubles, and the troubles we create in the world, we must see into this directly. Shugen Sensei explores how we can deepen the practice of seeing the mind and experiencing our true nature. Through mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion, we can discover that we are not separate; we were never separate at all. | — | ||||||
| 6/14/26 | ![]() Oh! Really? | Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 6/14/26 - The Buddha said, “All things are ultimately liberated; they have no abiding place.” In this koan, the teenage Satsujo, completely devoted to practicing the Dharma, was sitting in her room when her father peeked in and saw her seated on a copy of the Lotus Sutra. Shocked, he shouted, “What are you doing sitting on this precious scripture?” Satsujo replied, “How is this wonderful sutra different from my ass? Quickly! What is this body-heart-mind before thoughts of sacred and profane arise?” Hojin Sensei uses this encounter to invite us to question the familiar divisions and fixed ideas in which we can become stuck—those habits of mind that separate sacred from ordinary and can become a source of confusion and suffering. (From Hidden Lamp: Stories from Awakened Women #72 – “Satsujo Sits on the Lotus Sutra”. Japan, 18th century.) | — | ||||||
| 6/14/26 | ![]() Contemplating Buddha | Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho - ZMM - 6/14/26 - What is already present is the authentic form of Buddha, not different than your own body and mind. We may think there is something broken that needs to be fixed about ourselves, or that we’re lacking in some way. Zazen is the authentic form of Buddha, and returning to yourself again and again is the contemplation of our own true self. Gokan Osho takes up this teaching and encourages us to see ourselves “without distractions and without duality, going beyond conceptualizing,” to contemplate Buddha. | — | ||||||
| 6/13/26 | ![]() Living in Inquiry | Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZCNYC - 6/13/26 - When inquiry is alive within us, every thought we think can end with a question mark — perhaps even an exclamation mark — rather than a period. There is freedom in this openness, in loosening our fixed certainty and allowing experience to remain alive and fresh. Hojin Sensei explores a passage from the Diamond Sutra: “Develop a mind that abides nowhere.” | — | ||||||
| 6/7/26 | ![]() The Inner Wilderness✨ | attachmentsBuddhism+4 | Geoffrey Shugen Arnold | The Gateless Gate | — | Buddhismattachments+6 | — | 39m 52s | |
| 5/31/26 | ![]() Dharma Encounter with Shugen Roshi✨ | Dharma Encountersuffering+4 | Geoffrey Shugen Arnold | Hongzhi | — | Dharma Encountersuffering+6 | — | 1h 16m 41s | |
| 5/30/26 | ![]() Does That Person See It, Or Not?✨ | koan storiesperception+3 | Geoffrey Shugen Arnold | Book of SerenityCase 51 - Fayan's 'Boat or Land' | — | Zenkoan+5 | — | 48m 17s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() What Can’t Be Fought For✨ | true selfZen practice+3 | Danica Shoan Ankele | Gateless Gate | — | true selfZen+5 | — | 43m 27s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() A Rice Cake. Just A Rice Cake.✨ | dharmaultimate truth+3 | Ron Hogen Green | Book of EquanimityCase 78 - Ummon's Rice-Cake | — | dharmaultimate truth+5 | — | 38m 09s | |
| 5/24/26 | ![]() Mind and Environment✨ | bodhicittamindfulness+4 | — | Book of Serenity | — | bodhicittamind+5 | — | 43m 23s | |
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| 5/21/26 | ![]() Fusatsu: Right Speech✨ | right speechBuddha's guidelines+3 | Geoffrey Shugen Arnold | Zen Mountain Monastery | — | right speechBuddhism+5 | — | 23m 46s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Dark to the Mind, Radiant to the Heart✨ | mysterious pivotDharma teaching+3 | Jody Hojin Kimmel | ZCNYCHongzhi | — | mysterious pivotDharma+3 | — | 31m 55s | |
| 5/17/26 | ![]() Calling and Responding✨ | Buddha Mindkoan+4 | Danica Shoan Ankele | Zen Mountain MonasteryThe Gateless Gate | — | Buddha Mindkoan+4 | — | 41m 35s | |
| 5/10/26 | ![]() The Spring’s Knee-Deep Mud✨ | dharmamindfulness+4 | — | The Book of SerenityCase 79 - Changsha Advancing a Step | — | dharmamindfulness+6 | — | 43m 18s | |
| 5/3/26 | ![]() The Sanctuary Is Built Here | Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 5/3/26 - The middle way between indulgence and denial is not obvious for any of us beginning on our practice path. How could we know where the “middle” might be? We need to stumble and make mistakes to learn how to embrace a wholesome and sustainable balance, through practice. Building a sanctuary, a monastery, or a livable life takes effort, reflection, atonement and renewal. Our own enlightened nature is ready at any time to support what can be of benefit to all beings. (From the Book of Serenity, Case 4: The World Honored One Points to the Ground) | — | ||||||
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Fusatsu: Unsurpassable Giving✨ | generosityBuddhism+4 | Jody Hojin Kimmel | ZCNYCBuddha | — | generosityBuddhism+4 | — | 31m 24s | |
| 4/26/26 | ![]() Dharma Encounter: Gathering Life Energy | Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - ZMM - 4/26/26 - The energy of our lives is something that we tend to take for granted, but in spiritual practice it is understood that we can deliberately cultivate the energy of clarity through zazen. We can study the ways that energy can “leak out” and diminish our clarity and focus. How do we practice those things that seem to limit us, which might dull or diminish our aspiration? How do we cultivate the “empty field” of Hongzhi’s teachings? In this lively encounter with the sangha, Hogen Sensei and the sangha explore how to gather and nourish our life energy on the path of liberation. (Dharma Encounter at the conclusion of the April 2026 Apple Blossom Sesshin.) | — | ||||||
| 4/25/26 | ![]() Grass Grows On The Path✨ | koanoriginal mind+5 | — | Book of SerenityDongshan's 'No Grass' | — | koanoriginal mind+5 | — | 42m 55s | |
| 4/25/26 | ![]() Energy For Awakening✨ | resonanceenergy+4 | Jody Hojin Kimmel | Zen Mountain Monastery | — | resonanceenergy+5 | — | 28m 06s | |
| 4/25/26 | ![]() Fusatsu: Energy For Awakening | Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - ZMM - 4/24/26 - Resonance is a living reality, and when we turn toward resonance we can experience the energy and aliveness to help us be grounded in our practice. When we let go of grasping and really turn on our attention inward, we stop making a separation between our “self” and everything else. When we don’t let all our attention seep outward, we can find the energy for awakening which help dispel the doubts and distortions that create suffering. | — | ||||||
| 4/22/26 | ![]() Wonderous Jewel, Never Hidden✨ | trustclarity+4 | — | Book of Serenity | — | trustclarity+5 | — | 39m 29s | |
| 4/19/26 | ![]() Not To Be Hindered✨ | BuddhismSimplicity+3 | Geoffrey Shugen Arnold | Zen Mountain MonasteryMaster Hongzhi | — | Buddhismsimplicity+4 | — | 41m 03s | |
| 4/12/26 | ![]() Jukai Ceremony at ZMM with Shugen Roshi – April 2026✨ | Jukai ceremonyBuddhist precepts+3 | Jerry Kyosei CalvilloPaul Yugen Burns+1 | Zen Mountain Monastery | — | Jukai ceremonyBuddhist precepts+3 | — | 1h 03m 14s | |
| 4/5/26 | ![]() Do You Know the Self—or Not?✨ | self-awarenessresponsibility+3 | Geoffrey Shugen Arnold | Book of SerenityCase 37 - Guishan's 'Active Consciousness' | — | selfmind+5 | — | 43m 24s | |
| 3/29/26 | ![]() Dharma Encounter: Wisdom and Compassion✨ | wisdomcompassion+3 | — | Zen Mountain MonasteryPrajna Paramita | — | Dharma Encounterwisdom+5 | — | 1h 04m 46s | |
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Chart Positions
23 placements across 23 markets.
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23 placements across 23 markets.







