Chobo-Ji's Zen Podcast

Rinzai Zen Dharma Talks given at the Seattle Zen Temple Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji or other locations associated with Chobo-Ji.

Spiritual Root 06/20/2025

Spiritual Root Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Summer Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the root of all spiritual practice and how accessing this root is essential to navigating pain and suffering. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/37220660

Hekiganroku - Case 90 06/08/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 90 Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the June 8, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the essence of Prajna. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/36924090

Hekiganroku - Case 89 05/04/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 89 Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the May 4, 2025 Zazenkai, held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how we are all the very hands and eyes of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/36440230

Hekiganroku - Case 88 04/13/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 88 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during April Zazenkai, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what it is to really realize our seamlessness with the intimate infinite. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/36326615

Four Noble Truths 04/06/2025

Four Noble Truths Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Dharma Talk Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. This talk explores The Four Noble Truths and offers a deep dive into the Noble Eight-Fold Path. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/36052665

Hekiganroku - Case 87 03/27/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 87 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the sixth day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how too much medicine becomes poisonous, and how to transcend both medicines and poisons. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/36323310

Hekiganroku - Case 86 03/26/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 86 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what we see when we look in the mirror collectively and personally. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/36235785

LinJi Meets Old Woman 03/25/2025

LinJi Meets Old Woman Anne Sendo Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance of recognizing our own inner sage. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/36139965

Hekiganroku - Case 85 03/24/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 85 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the qualities one should find in a senior Zen monk and the fact that none of us will always be in the groove of excellence. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/35950245

Hekiganroku - Case 84 03/23/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 84 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to find the path to the "One and Only" in the midst of our collective suffering. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/35925700

Reality Prior to Heaven and Earth 03/22/2025

Reality Prior to Heaven and Earth Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores THIS reality prior to heaven and earth; it has no form, let alone a name. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/35918770

Hekiganroku - Case 83 03/09/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 83 Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the March 9, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk delves into a crucial path that can assist us in transcending our troubled selves and fostering a profound connection with the essence of our being. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/35599715

Hekiganroku - Case 82 02/09/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 82 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Feb. 9, 2025 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores impermanence and the indestructible Dharma body, the reality before and beneath space and time, creation and destruction. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/35214390

Hekiganroku - Case 81 01/26/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 81 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the final day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the difference between breakthroughs and maturity. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/35121725

Hekiganroku - Case 80 01/25/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 80 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how we can ride the rough waters we are facing, like a ball floating on rapids. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/35119665

No Knowing 01/24/2025

No Knowing Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores: "Who are we really?" /episode/index/show/genjo/id/35049920

Hekiganroku - Case 79 01/12/2025

Hekiganroku - Case 79 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Jan. 12, 2025 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to care for different aspects of ourselves, so that our inner sage has a better chance of being heard. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/34828075

Hekiganroku - Case 78 12/07/2024

Hekiganroku - Case 78 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the seventh day of Rohatsu 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores our need to breakthrough repeatedly to gain confidence it what is real and transcendent. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/34722870

Hekiganroku - Case 77 12/05/2024

Hekiganroku - Case 77 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Rohatsu 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores direct demonstrations of the transcendent (combination of ordinary and absolute perspectives). /episode/index/show/genjo/id/34698410

Patacara - Rohatsu 2024 12/04/2024

Patacara - Rohatsu 2024 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Rohatsu 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how we can't avoid tears and loss, and how to face impermanence. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/34647120

Hekiganroku - Case 76 12/03/2024

Hekiganroku - Case 76 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Rohatsu 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how many questions in Zen have a double meaning, and how we are all worthy to be cared for, even if we are blind in one way another. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/34566725

Ummon's _Particle After Particle Samadhi 12/02/2024

Ummon's _Particle After Particle Samadhi Teisho, given on December 2, 2024, the second full day of Chobo-ji's Rohatsu Sesshin, by Rinzan Osho. When we see beyond concepts, we can be open, free and responsive to the great reality, a place where words meet words and spirit meets spirit. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/34647190

Who Are We Really? 12/01/2024

Who Are We Really? Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2024, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the kanji Mu (No, Not, Nothing), in the context of who are we really? /episode/index/show/genjo/id/34458250

Hekiganroku - Case 75 11/10/2024

Hekiganroku - Case 75 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Nov. 10, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to cross swords in Zen, and thoughts about how to investigate and respond to election results. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/33871407

Hekiganroku - Case 74 10/20/2024

Hekiganroku - Case 74 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Oct.20, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to delightfully meet every person as a flowering bodhisattva. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/33631502

Case 19 Autumn 2024 09/27/2024

Case 19 Autumn 2024 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the final day of Autumn Sesshin, 2024, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the pinnacle of Zen practice, how to bring our depth into daily life. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/33561427

Hekiganroku - Case 72 09/25/2024

Hekiganroku - Case 72 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Autumn 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to "see" beyond three dimensions. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/33442312

Middle Day Teisho Autumn Sesshin 24 09/24/2024

Middle Day Teisho Autumn Sesshin 24 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Autumn 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what is the sap of the tree of Dharma. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/33386637

Hekiganroku - Case 71 09/23/2024

Hekiganroku - Case 71 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Autumn 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how do we say what cannot be said and how to draw on our stem or deep self-nature. /episode/index/show/genjo/id/33348752

Hekiganroku - Case 70 09/22/2024

Hekiganroku - Case 70 Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Autumn 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how do you say what cannot be said and do we all flow like water? /episode/index/show/genjo/id/33250547

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