Zen Meditation Center Mountain Monastery

Welcome to Zen Mountain Monastery Since 1980, we’ve offered people traditional and innovative ways to engage the Buddhadharma through our programs. The Monastery is an environment uniquely conducive to spiritual practice that can help you discover how to bring your spiritual path to life in your everyday activities. Whether you come for a Sunday Morning Program, a weekend retreat, or a period of residency, you’ll have a chance to experience the Monastery’s cloister—a dynamic spiritual community and a place to encounter your own inner silence and stillness, wisdom and compassion. Zen Center of New York City: Fire Lotus Temple is a refuge for spiritual practitioners in New York City. With a regular schedule of morning and evening zazen, Saturday workshops and meditation intensives, a Sunday Morning Program, and residential opportunities, you’ll find support and inspiration for practicing at home and at work in one of the most dynamic cities in the world. Newcomers are invited to attend beginning instruction in zazen meditation during the Sunday Morning Program each week. About Us 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. Although the MRO is distinctly American, much of the training, liturgy, and practice forms used in the Order come from the tradition of Zen as it evolved in ancient China and Japan. Daido Roshi trained with Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi at the Zen Center of Los Angeles and received dharma transmission from him. Because Maezumi Roshi was a lineage holder within the Soto school of Zen, and had received Inka (seal of approval) from two Rinzai teachers, training and practice in the MRO draws from both these traditions. The MRO takes its name from Zen Master Eihei Dogen’s “Mountains and Rivers Sutra,” a favorite teaching of Daido Roshi’s–one that he returned to again and again. With Zen Mountain Monastery (ZMM), the seat of the Order, based at the foot of a mountain and the junction of two rivers, the name Mountains and Rivers Order takes on added significance.