{"title": "Beginning Instruction on Wednesday Evenings at Zen Mountain Monastery", "start": "2026-11-11T19:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "price": "Suggested donation – $5.00 - $20.00", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/buddhist", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "Beginning instruction in zazen, the seated meditation practice of Zen Buddhism, together with an orientation to the Monastery. It is offered by Zen Mountain Monastery for new visitors, and includes a walking meditation and a final period of zazen ending with the Four Bodhisattva Vows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beginning-instruction-on-wednesday-evenings-at-zen-mountain-66480/", "official_url": "https://zcnyc.org/programs/4917/beginning-instruction-on-wednesday-evenings-at-zen-mountain-monastery-30", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6251169eb38864cfa0c17419a55d201b78cc6ee99b7659fdf4a51404fe4702a8-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T19:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-09T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-01-20T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-02-10T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-03-10T19:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-04-14T19:15:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery", "start": "2026-11-01T09:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "price": "Suggested donation – $5.00 - $20.00", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "Sunday Mornings at Zen Mountain Monastery is a morning of Zen practice beginning with a liturgy chanting service at 9am, followed by zazen, walking meditation (kinhin) and a talk by a teacher or senior student, concluding around 12:00pm, with a community lunch at the end. It is for returning visitors who have already received beginning instruction in meditation at the Monastery or at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn. First-time visitors are instead asked to register for Beginning Instruction/Orientation to the Monastery, offered every other Sunday morning and on the 2nd Wednesday evening of each month. Participants should arrive by 8:45 am, enter through the front door and check in with the greeter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sunday-mornings-at-zen-mountain-monastery-71214/", "official_url": "https://zcnyc.org/programs/4803/sunday-mornings-at-zen-mountain-monastery-copy-70", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71d25af7718b3540ee0c8ddfbdcbfd29598cac4c9285f89ca9c15ebedc649a13-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Introduction to Zen Training Weekend", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "price": "$300.00 – Program Price", "price_from": "300.00", "price_to": "300.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "Introduction to Zen Training Weekend is an immersive introductory retreat in Zen Buddhism, held Friday through Sunday, October 30 to November 1, 2026. It is led by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, Danica Shoan Ankele, Sensei and Gokan Bonebakker, Osho of the Mountains and Rivers Order at Zen Mountain Monastery. Over the weekend, participants receive instruction in zazen (seated meditation) and experience liturgy, work as sacred activity, art and body practice, and the teachings of wisdom and compassion, with guidance on establishing a home practice and bringing mindfulness into work, family and relationships, including a private interview with a teacher. The retreat takes place within the Monastery cloister in the heart of the Catskill Mountains, and is a prerequisite for attending a sesshin or becoming a formal MRO student.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/introduction-to-zen-training-weekend-66479/", "official_url": "https://zcnyc.org/programs/4577/introduction-to-zen-training-weekend-copy-8", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6251169eb38864cfa0c17419a55d201b78cc6ee99b7659fdf4a51404fe4702a8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NYZ: Introduction to Meditation", "start": "2026-10-29T18:45:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T21:00:00-04:00", "place": "", "address": "", "price": "$10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/meditation"], "description": "NYZ: Introduction to Meditation is a Thursday-evening class that teaches the basics of zazen, the seated meditation of Rinzai Zen Buddhism, covering posture, breathing, and concentration. It is offered by New York Zendo Shobo-ji, which invites city dwellers to experience traditional Zen practice and find an oasis of deep stillness in the heart of Manhattan. Beginners also learn the forms used at the zendo, including bowing, chanting, and kinhin (walking meditation), and no prior experience is necessary. The class is a prerequisite for attending zazen at New York Zendo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nyz-introduction-to-meditation-57616/", "official_url": "https://zenstudies.org/event/nyz-introduction-to-meditation/2026-10-29/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7041cdbb16f6dcaecc1ce79dcfc1b7540079f27d8b79ed94bbc92dc3c455ceb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "FREE Zen Meditation 9-10:30 AM", "start": "2026-10-31T09:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T10:30:00-04:00", "place": "All Souls Bethehem Church", "address": "East 7th Street 566, 11218 Brooklyn", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/meditation"], "description": "Free Zen meditation is offered at All Souls Bethlehem Church. It is taught by Rev. Dr. Boon, the church's pastor, who has practiced Zen meditation for ten years and was trained by Robert Kennedy Roshi, a student of the famous Zen masters Yamada Roshi in Japan, Taizan Maezumi Roshi in Los Angeles, and Bernard Glassman Roshi in New York City.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/free-zen-meditation-9-1030-am-50930/", "official_url": "https://www.allsoulsbethlehem.org/events-1/free-zen-meditation-9-10-30-am-2026-10-31-09-00", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f2a7e2f57573c3ec57e88fdc73363f6de15f223a31bb08cdc47ef92f6a9120c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nuts & Bolts of Zen Practice (November)", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "price": "Suggested donation – $10.00 - $100.00", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen"], "description": "An online seminar on the essentials of Zen practice, with time set aside for questions and discussion. It is led by Ron Hogen Green, Sensei, a lay teacher in the Mountains and Rivers Order and retired podiatrist who began practicing Zen in 1978. The seminar was designed with Practicing Members in mind, but suits newcomers and anyone wishing to explore more deeply. It is offered by donation so everyone can participate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nuts-bolts-of-zen-practice-november-71217/", "official_url": "https://zcnyc.org/programs/4669/nuts-bolts-of-zen-practice-november-4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cfaaf2b6013c47715c6342c788b23b5d6ae897c975239b38a30ae8cf218df4cf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "True Refuge Week: Self-Directed Intensive Practice for MRO Students", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "price": "$300.00", "price_from": "300.00", "price_to": "300.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen"], "description": "True Refuge Week: Self-Directed Intensive Practice for MRO Students is a week of intensive Zen practice limited to formal training students of the Mountains and Rivers Order. Led by MRO Teachers and Senior Staff, it gathers a cohort of no more than nine students whose personal aspirations shape the week, with oryoki meals, morning caretaking, a meal crew, and daily zazen and liturgy. Beyond that the field is open: participants may study a sutra, sit intensive zazen outside of sesshin, take up art practice, keep silence or converse, forming their intentions together. It is offered as an alternative to sesshin and fulfills the student and ango sesshin requirements.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/true-refuge-week-self-directed-intensive-practice-for-mro-st-71218/", "official_url": "https://zcnyc.org/programs/4600/true-refuge-week-self-directed-intensive-practice-for-mro-students-26", "image": ""}, {"title": "Fall Ango 2026", "start": "2026-08-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "price": "Suggested donation – $45.00 - $100.00", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen"], "description": "Fall Ango 2026 is a three-month fall training intensive that begins with an Ango Entering Ceremony, offered via live stream with opening remarks by Shugen Roshi. Ango is open to those with experience of Zen practice within the MRO, an ongoing daily meditation practice and sesshin attendance, and this season's theme is Buddha Nature, explored through readings, talks and mondos as well as personal and group study. Participants take up the interplay of training gates including zazen, liturgy, moral and ethical teachings, creative expression, the body's aliveness and study of the Dharma, and receive Zoom access for Buddhist study, teachings and art practice along with regular email updates.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-ango-2026-66475/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Ango Intensive – Buddha Nature: Revealing the Jewel Within", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "price": "$400.00 – Thursday Arrival; $365.00 – Practicing Member—Thursday Arrival; $300.00 – MRO Student—Thur", "price_from": "400.00", "price_to": "400.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen"], "description": "A multi-day Buddhist retreat intensive titled 'Ango Intensive – Buddha Nature: Revealing the Jewel Within', combining study and daily training such as meditation, mindfulness and liturgy. It is led by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi, Head of the Mountains and Rivers Order and Abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery. Participants study two texts on buddha nature, the teaching that all living beings carry the essential mind of an enlightened being: the opening of Master Dogen's Buddha Nature fascicle from the Shobogenzo and the first chapter of the 4th-century Indian Uttaratantra. Through discussion and practice, the intensive aims to move beyond talk and enter into a direct experience of one's true self.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ango-intensive-buddha-nature-revealing-the-jewel-within-71215/", "official_url": "https://zcnyc.org/programs/4685/ango-intensive-fall", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7df35b2a25eabf74c95492bc207007a965f6a5960b4719dbbc07081d654a52a5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fall Art Practice Series – Returning to the Elements", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Fire Lotus Temple", "address": "State Street 500, 11217", "price": "$25.00 - $150.00 (Suggested Donation $25 per class, $150 for the series)", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "150.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen", "art"], "description": "Fall Art Practice Series – Returning to the Elements is an online art practice series held on Friday mornings, in which participants work in any medium from their home studios over Zoom. It is led by Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei, Abbot of the Zen Center of NYC-Fire Lotus Temple, and takes the traditional elements of Earth, Water, Fire and Air, sometimes expanded to include Space and Consciousness, as its theme. The sessions explore expressing the energetic qualities of the elements rather than their appearance, alongside a Meditation on the Six Elements from the Mahārāhulovāda Sutta, with Dharma words and prompts offered to spark creativity. Newcomers are welcome and no likeness-making is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-art-practice-series-returning-to-the-elements-71212/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}