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2020/01/20
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2026/01/22
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Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the Guiding Teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the Center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom, and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within Western cultural horizons while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodied practice.
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Staying in the Zone of Nourishment
2026/01/22
This talk was given at the opening of the 7th 90-day Everyday Bodhisattva Practice Period at the Boulder Zen Center, as participants were clarifying guiding intentions for the months ahead. Zen practice—and life more broadly—organize themselves around what we commit to. Rather than emphasizing goals, intention is presented as direction: the way attention is shaped and sustained. From this view, positive change does not come from forcibly fixing or cutting away what is unwholesome. Practice is instead to nourish what is already wholesome, allowing what is unwholesome to wither from lack of attention. Nourishment becomes a guiding orientation: staying in the zone of nourishment, investigating what truly supports life, and trusting one’s own sense of it—while recognizing that personal nourishment and true wholesomeness is inseparable from the well-being of others and the living world.
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Our annual Everyday Bodhisattva Practice Period is now underway! This three-month period offers an opportunity for Sangha members to come together and deepen their practice through individually designed schedules, supported by Dharma teachings and peer-to-peer Sangha dialogue. Practice Periods are guided by Zenki Roshi together with members of the Practice Council. The 2026 Practice Period emphasizes the study of Dōgen’s fascicle Being Time (Uji). Learn more here: https://www.boulderzen.org/practice-period-2026
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Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Receiving and Unfolding (On Right Intention)
2026/01/08
At the turn of the year, we often pause to reflect, set intentions, and imagine a better version of ourselves ahead. Yet often we experience a stubborn gap between those ideals and the lived texture of daily life. This talk questions whether that gap can be closed through effort and control, or whether something else is being asked of us. After reflecting on traditional Buddhist teachings on right intention and critiquing them from a Zen perspective as dualistic (a self trying to improve itself over time), attention turns toward the present moment itself. What if liberation is not postponed to the future, but available now? Through zazen and beginner’s mind—allowing experience to be exactly as it is—intention becomes less about fixing ourselves and more about a continued pulse of receiving the texture of this situation here now and trusting its unfolding.
Welcome to Zen Mind!
Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Become a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
Our annual 'Everyday Bodhisattva Practice Period' is now open for registration! The 3-month Practice Period is an opportunity to come together with other members and deepen your practice with an individually designed schedule supported by a variety of Dharma teachings and peer-to-peer Sangha dialogue. Practice Periods are led by Zenki Roshi, BZC’s Guiding Teacher, together with members of the Practice Council. The 2026 Practice Period will emphasize the study of Dogen's fascicle 'Being Time' (Uji). Learn more and register here: https://www.boulderzen.org/practice-period-2026
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
What Can Be Relied On When Everything Changes
2025/12/25
This talk explores impermanence as an intimate fact of lived experience, in contrast to our desire for permanence and stability. Along with conditionality and no-self, impermanence is a core principle of Buddhist wisdom teachings. Yet these principles only matter when they are felt directly-in this breathing body, in sickness, aging, loss, and vulnerability. This is why we meditate: practice allows impermanence to be known not as an idea, but as an existential fact of our life. What we call "self" can then be understood as a defensive posture against fragility. The talk reframes Zen practice as two inseparable movements: zazen, receiving experience as it is, and action, responding to conditions as they arise. What can be relied on, even as everything changes, is this receptive awareness and responsive activity.
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Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Become a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
Our annual 'Everyday Bodhisattva Practice Period' is now open for registration! The 3-month Practice Period is an opportunity to come together with other members and deepen your practice with an individually designed schedule supported by a variety of Dharma teachings and peer-to-peer Sangha dialogue. Practice Periods are led by Zenki Roshi, BZC’s Guiding Teacher, together with members of the Practice Council. The 2026 Practice Period will emphasize the study of Dogen's fascicle 'Being Time' (Uji). Learn more and register here: https://www.boulderzen.org/practice-period-2026
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Freedom Within Limitations - Sesshin Day 3
2025/12/11
This talk was given on day 3 of a 7-day sesshin at the Boulder Zen Center. It continues an exploration of three modes of attention: focus, field, and full function. Attention is the most foundational way the world comes into being for us. This talk explores what this means for our sense of self and our sense of freedom. It uses a chapter called "Finding Yourself" from a recently published book with talks by Suzuki Roshi. You can find the reference in the show notes as well as ways for how to access the other talks in the sesshin series.
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We recently started our annual year-end fundraising effort! Please consider making a one-time contribution or starting or upgrading your membership to make this next phase of BZC possible: https://www.boulderzen.org/fundraiser
See all events, programs, and how to become a member at www.boulderzen.org. Reach out and email us at [email protected].
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Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Best of Zen Mind: Stepping Back (and Back In)
2025/11/27
While Zenki Roshi is teaching the Fall Practice Course 'Developing Embodiment' at the Boulder Zen Center, we are re-airing three dharma talks that address fundamental topics and practices related to embodiment.
The third one is "Stepping Back (and Back In)" which was originally published on November 28, 2024. This talk asks what it means to be identified with thoughts, opinions, emotions, personal characteristics, roles, and positions. And then, what it means to dis-identify from those aspects. It explores Dogen's practice instruction "to take the backward step that turns the light around and inward." Dogen's stepping back is to first discover and then establish oneself in the 'field of mind' that is always present "behind" the many 'contents of mind' that are coming and going from moment to moment. This is the realization of non-attachment and freedom. However, there remains a dualism between field and content, self and other, subject and object. So after taking the backward step, what does it take to "step back in" and release one's self and this dualism?
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See all events, programs, and how to become a member at www.boulderzen.org. Reach out and email us at [email protected].
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Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Best of Zen Mind: No Inside, No Outside
2025/11/13
While Zenki Roshi is teaching the Fall Practice Course 'Developing Embodiment' at the Boulder Zen Center, we are re-airing three dharma talks that address fundamental topics and practices related to embodiment.
The second one is "No Inside, No Outside" which was originally published on September 27, 2023. This talk explores how to make use of the turning phrase "No inside, no outside." A turning phrase is a verbal expression that can transform our sense of self and being in the world. The phrase is held in mind as an antidote to culturally or personally ingrained views. When we investigate common sense distinctions such as internal/external and self/other, we come face to face with our tendency to objectify what is perceived to be outside and the resulting sense of alienation. The talk provides embodied practices for entering a space of intimacy so that sight and sounds as well as thoughts and feelings can be perceived as appearing in the same undivided space.
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See all events, programs, and how to become a member at www.boulderzen.org. Reach out and email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Best of Zen Mind: Pause for the Pause
2025/10/30
While Zenki Roshi is teaching the Fall Practice Course 'Developing Embodiment' at the Boulder Zen Center, we are re-airing three dharma talks that address fundamental topics and practices related to embodiment.
The first one is "Pause for the Pause" which was originally published on June 27, 2024. This talk was given as part of a Weekend Sitting. It highlights the distinction between the contents of mind and the field of mind. Dogen encouraged his students "to be continuously intimate with the field of mind." The talk presents two attentional practices to discover and establish oneself in the field of mind: (1) "To pause for the particular," a version of mindfulness practice that emphasizes the creation of a dharmic pulse within one's perceptual process, and (2) "to pause for the pause," which invites the stillness of the field to come to the foreground. Perceiving sensorial contents within the context of the field trains the mind in non-attachment and non-identification. Based on these practices, the talk suggests to view Zen rituals as a succession of still points and action, ultimately fostering an embodied integration of stillness and activity.
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Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Become a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Embodied Presence – Why It Matters!
2025/10/19
This talk kicked off the new live Practice Course ‘Developing Embodiment’ that just began at the Boulder Zen Center. The talk first defines the ultimate fruition of the Zen path as ‘embodying buddha.’ It’s not enough to understand what liberation from suffering as well as wisdom and compassion mean, our intention needs to be to demonstrate these qualities in each unique situation with our embodied presence, our whole being. The talk then presents the general unfolding of the Zen path, the role of embodiment on that path, and the interaction between the yogic and psychological dimensions of embodiment. It ends with an overview of the curriculum of the live Practice Course, which is open for enrollment until October 24th and which will be available as a self-paced course after the live teachings end on November 22, 2025.
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Zenki Roshi's new practice course, "Developing Embodiment," is live! Over the course of six weeks, he will give practice instructions on how to develop an embodied presence in the Zendo and in daily life. Learn more and register here: https://www.boulderzen.org/developing-embodiment
Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Become a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Nothing Missing
2025/10/02
This talk was given as part of a One-Day Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center. It reflects on embodiment practice as the gate to the present and the present as the gate to our true nature. The talk begins with the question, "What is missing in your life?" Happiness, money, love, security? Where does our mind go with this question? Usually to some thought pattern. What happens if, instead, we go to the embodied presence of this moment - allowing our experience to be exactly what it is? What happens if, in addition, we realize that each here-now moment requires our participation - a wholehearted yes to our experience becoming what it needs to become? We might realize that nothing is missing and that the unfolding present is our true home.
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We are excited to announce that Zenki Roshi's live practice course, "Developing Embodiment", will begin on October 18th! This live course will explore the importance of embodiment on the path of practice and awakening. We will go over practices that allow us to develop and deepen embodied presence, and we will examine how embodiment supports our journey toward a life of freedom from suffering, wisdom, and compassion. Learn more and register here: https://www.boulderzen.org/developing-embodiment
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If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Shot through with Space (Part 3)
2025/09/18
This talk continues and concludes the mini-series on exploring space and spaciousness. This time the emphasis is on mental space. While the two previous talks emphasized practices with visual objects, body, and breath, this talk makes suggestions for how to investigate and work with thoughts. (1) What is there between thoughts; what kind of space do you find there? (2) Where do thoughts come from, and where do they go? Do thoughts have a source? (3) Are thoughts fundamentally different from the space in which they appear? As a result of these investigations, we might find that it is more helpful to view the mind as a space that ‘allows thoughts’ rather than a self-agency that ‘does thinking.’ Suzuki Roshi spoke of Big Mind and small mind. The narrow setting of the small, self-centered mind can be understood as an expression of the wide, spacious setting of Big Mind, in which no self can be found. So even that dualism can be accommodated by space.
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Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Consider becoming a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Shot through with Space (Part 2)
2025/09/04
This talk continues the mini-series on exploring space and spaciousness. It presents a variety of practices with gaze, body, and breath that can help us verify in our own experience that the separation of mind from object and self from other is only an afterthought that distorts the original undividedness of space. The experience of undivided spaciousness can help soften conflict, ease trauma, and increase the freedom with which we respond to changing circumstances. We can even relax our sense of self-directed agency. We might then take the view that we are not located in space but that we are what space is doing in this location. Space appears to be the agent. But rather than turning this into a notion of God, we can simply rest in the realization that moment by moment, spaciousness resolves into function. Life unfolds without clinging.
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Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Consider becoming a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Shot through with Space (Part 1)
2025/08/21
This is the first talk in a mini-series on practicing with the experience of space and spaciousness. The exploration starts with a fundamental shift in view… from “space separates” to “space connects.” We are culturally trained to see space as being between things and separating our self from the world, thus reinforcing opposition and alienation. But what if space is connecting and bonding—and beyond that enveloping, penetrating, and accommodating everything as it is? Such a shift can have profound implications for how we live—with less opposition and judgment and more acceptance and intimacy. To embody this, we need to make our minds spacious, open, and accommodating, thus freeing others and ourselves to be as we are. This can serve as a foundation for liberation from suffering, wisdom, and compassion.
Welcome to Zen Mind!
Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Consider becoming a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Breathing Through the Whole Body
2025/08/08
This talk was given as an opening talk to a workshop on “Breath Practice.” It explores breath as our most vital form of nourishment. Breath practice has two intertwined dimensions: supporting health and well-being, and serving as a path of spiritual awakening. The first part of the talk looks at the foundations of healthy breathing, drawing on both science and direct experience. From there, it turns to the Buddhist tradition, highlighting four core principles found in key mindfulness sutras: 1) Go to a quiet place—not just externally but inwardly, 2) Invite the spine into uprightness, 3) Notice the sensations of breathing at the front of the body (nostrils and abdomen), and 4) Breathe through the whole body. As part of a spiritual path, the aim of breath practice isn’t to perfect the breath, but to discover—through the subtle, whole-body experience of breathing—a deeper sense of who we are.
The talk draws from these three books:
Will Johnson; Breathing through the Whole Body: The Buddha's Instructions on Integrating Mind, Body, and Breath
James Nestor; Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Patrick McKeown; The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster and Fitter―Improve Your Health and Fitness with Efficient Breathing TechniquesWelcome to Zen Mind!
Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Consider becoming a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
Being Touched By Life
2025/07/24
This talk was given as part of a One-Day Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center. It reflects on moments when we are touched by life. Nothing special, just ordinary moments -- washing the dishes, looking at your child, seeing the grasses outside your window swayed by the wind. To be touched by life is maybe our deepest longing. However, the human mind has the tendency to replace the intimacy of direct experience with concepts, stories, and identities, thus alienating itself from what is most fulfilling. Our practice is not to stop all our thinking and make some special experience called awakening happen. It is to free attention from being captured by the narrowness of thought, and instead shift it to breath, body, and phenomena. Breathing, feeling, and sensing are doors to the present, and the present is the door to a spacious and timeless field of awareness. Experiencing our human form located within this wider field then functions as a continuous invitation to be touched by life.
Welcome to Zen Mind!
Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Become a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
See all events and join our mailing list at www.boulderzen.org. Email us at [email protected].
If you're enjoying these talks, please subscribe and leave us a rating or review!
Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
The Art of Enough
2025/07/10
We human beings tend to generate stress—and sometimes even burnout— by perceiving situations and ourselves as not enough. This talk starts out with the question "When is there enough?" and tries on the view that "Just now is already enough." By recognizing that we are always already significantly supported by breath, food, shelter, and our society (however crazy it might appear), we can learn to rest in a basic satisfaction and inner peace. From a Buddhist point of view, this depends on letting go of grasping and resisting, releasing ourselves into the field of "undivided activity," and realizing that we are an expression of that field. The talk elucidates how we can use the classic understanding of the middle path between self-indulgence and self-mortification as a way to develop an "Art of Enough." This art doesn't deny the need for improvement and doesn't shut down engagement with personal and societal problems. However, it does emphasize that a basic sense of enoughness needs to come first if we want to avoid being captured by a race to more and more that can easily lead to emotional and energetic burnouts.
Welcome to Zen Mind!
Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Become a Premium Podcast subscriber for only $9/month. Dive deeper into the topics through Q&A sessions related to each of the talks. You can even ask questions of your own through the 'Ask Me Anything' platform and gain access to previously unpublished talks from intensives. Learn more here: https://zenmind.supercast.com/
We have a NEW, self-paced course, "Undivided Activity", now available! In this course, Zenki Roshi offers a complete commentary and experiential translation in a series of talks on Dogen's essay 'Undivided Activity'. Learn more and purchase the course here: https://www.boulderzen.org/undivided-activity
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Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi is the the guiding teacher at the Boulder Zen Center in Colorado, USA. This podcast shares the regular dharma talks given at the center. Zenki Roshi approaches Zen practice as a craft of transformation, liberation, wisdom and compassionate action. His interest is to bring Buddhism alive within the Western cultural context, while staying committed to the traditional emphasis on embodiment.
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Hbashh 2025/01/03
Absolute gem
To me this podcast is the vanguard of contemporary American Zen Buddhism, it respects tradition but speaks from a place of lived wisdom and experience...
Dr Franco 2024/06/29
Life changing
Not cheesy. Thank you so much for posting.
Copper Commuter 2024/06/22
Enlightening and Educational
A wonderful guide on my journey into buddhist practices. Zenki Dillo is sparkling on all sides.
Why do I have 2 have Facebook 2023/10/05
The path of aliveness is my Bible
The approach is extremely normalized and ready for the realities of modern life. Dillo is really helpful with how to integreat meditation and mindfuln...
funky-button 2022/07/25
Focus on daily life
I listen to a lot of Zen talks. This teacher focuses less on Zen “canon” (e.g. koan practice) and more on integrating Zen practice into daily life.
xijdflkjebsiman 2021/08/22
Zenki Dillon Roshi
Excellent talks! I just listened to the first of the study series and it really resonated as do all of his talks. Thank you very much for putting th...
LVerdon 2021/08/13
Zen Buddhism
These podcasts from Zenki Roshi are clear, insightful and transformative. I look forward to them as they are released.
80 Cooper 2021/07/28
Tremendously helpful.
The topics that Zenki Roshi addresses are simple but profound & belong to “real life”. I have found his insights to be “durable” & lasting; observati...
JflowD 2021/07/26
Helpful, poignant, approachable
These talks are positive and address many topics under larger umbrellas which encourage my Self to look at my life/issues from a different point of vi...
Neil_Shah 2021/07/09
Excellent
Excellent talks with deep insight and practical advise. A must listen.
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