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[edit] Mountains and Rivers Order

[edit] Training

At Zen Mountain Monastery, a jukai ceremony is only held for practitioners that have shown a maturity in their practice. They accept sixteen precepts, which are:[1]

  • Three Pure Precepts
  1. Do no evil.
  2. Do good.
  3. Do good for others.
  • Ten Grave Precepts
  1. Do not kill.
  2. Do not steal.
  3. Do not engage in sexual misconduct.
  4. Do not lie.
  5. Not not become intoxicated.
  6. Do not speak of others' faults.
  7. Do not elevate yourself while demeaning others.
  8. Be generous to others.
  9. Do not be angry.
  10. Do not slander the Buddha.

[edit] Zen Mountain Monastery

[edit] Zen Center of NYC

[edit] Zen Environmental Studies Institute

[edit] Dharma Communications

Loor is founder and CEO of Dharma Communications (DC)—a non-profit corporation run by the members of Zen Mountain Monastery—that publishes various forms of media and Dharma supplies, as well as the monastery's Mountain Journal.

[edit] Mountain Record

[edit] Affiliates

[edit] Prison outreach

In the mid-1980s John Daido Loori received a letter from an inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility asking for help in meditation instruction, so he visited the prison and eventually Zen Mountain Monastery began holding sesshins at the facility regularly—the group is called The Lotus Flower Sangha. After his initial visit the monastery began receiving letters from prisoners from all over the United States, individuals searching for more information on Zen Buddhism. Today Zen Mountain Monastery has a computer database of more than 1,000 prisoners with whom volunteers correspond with, providing encouragement and advice; they have created instructional pamphlets for them as well.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ McDannell, Colleen; Seager, Richard Hughes (2001). Religions of the United States in Practice. Princeton University Press, p. 208. ISBN 0691009996. 
  2. ^ Niebuhr, Gustav (2001-05-30). Zen on the Prison Grapevine; Support Network Grows for Inmates' Buddhist Practice. New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-01-12.