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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Podcast by Zazen and the Schmetterling
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The San Antonio Zen Center community offers a haven of peace and harmony in which to engage in the arduous task of self-discovery through Zen practice. Welcoming diversity, the practice of zazen is available to people of every race, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and physical ability.
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Speculative fiction writer, long-term resident of Japan and Bram Stoker Award finalist Thersa Matsuura explores all that is weird from old Japan—strange superstitions, folktales, cultural oddities, and interesting language quirks. These are little treasures she digs up while doing research for her writing.
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Riverside Chan Meditation Group
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Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link... Thank you for listening, Will Rauschenberger, Abbot
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Dharma Talks from the Everyday Zen Foundation
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Dharma talks by Jundo Cohen Roshi & priests from Treeleaf Zendo
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Welcome to MEDITATION SPACE. Meditation focuses the mind and eliminates distractions to improve clarity, calm, and awareness. Mindfulness, stress reduction, and inner serenity are commonly achieved through it. Meditation has been practised for millennia in Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Jainism. Each meditation method has its own goals and practises. Some of the meditations we will practice include: Mindfulness Meditation: Focusing on the present, including thoughts, feelings, and emotions, ...
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The Ordinary Mind Zen School Sydney podcast consists of Dharma talks given by Geoff Dawson.
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Welcome to Tokyo Storytellers. Life straight from Japan. Have your questions answered. Cover art photo provided by Freddy Castro on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@readysetfreddy
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A Zen podcast about life, death, illusion, suffering and liberation; with a sprinkling of Integral theory.
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Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & Practitioners
Rev. Liên Shutt & Rev. Dana Takagi
Welcome to "Opening Dharma Access," a podcast where we hear stories from BIPOC teachers & practitioners about their Dharma experiences and practice, and how those inform the ways they are sharing & practicing the Dharma today. Season 3 description: Hosted by Rev. Liên & Rev. Dana Takagi This season, we will have a new focus: Uplifting and Forwarding Asian American/Asian Diasporic Buddhist Experiences in the West. With our guests and audience, we will explore the specificities of Asian Americ ...
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“Those who are Buddhas are always in samadhi, the state like the ocean.” ~ Dogen Zenji
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Talks, Teishos, and Teachings by Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, Chigan Roshi Roland Jaeckel, Hokuto Daniel Diffin Osho, senior students, and guest teachers of the Zen Studies Society. The Zen Studies Society is a Buddhist community dedicated to realizing and actualizing our true nature. Cultivating an atmosphere of respect, harmony, deep insight, and boundless compassion, we offer the simple yet profound teachings and practice of Zen Buddhism at our mountain monastery and our city temple u ...
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Undivided Activity (Part 2): Liberation and Actualization
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58:00Welcome to Zen Mind! Love the dharma talks and want to hear more? Become a Premium Podcast subscriber. 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://…
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A Kanto Vs Kansai Culinary Journey (Ep. 167)
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17:21Ad-free versions of episodes are available to Patrons. Thank you for your support and helping us pay for rent and recent hospital bills. We couldn't do this without you! --Rich, the sound guy. In this episode of Uncanny Japan, Thersa Matsuura explores the culinary rivalry between Kanto (Tokyo region) and Kansai (Osaka/Kyoto area). Discover the fasc…
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Season 3 Compilation - A Beautiful Web of Asian Heritage Buddhists
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13:10On season 3, we co-created and witnessed an amazing example of how the Net of Indra weaves and connects. We heard from 13 Buddhist practitioners and teachers of Asian American or Asian Diaspora heritage, and in their own words, spoke to what the AA/AD Buddhist experience is for them. Season 3 is officially a wrap! Thank you to everyone who listened…
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Episode 256: Life’s Trauma And Liberation
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13:27Zen is not mental replacement therapy for your self image.
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Living by Vow – Talk 5 – 2025 Series – The Three Refuges Part Two
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38:48Norman gives the fifth talk of the “Living by Vow” 2025 Series on The Three Refuges to the Dharma Seminar as the focus of the Everyday Zen 2025 Practice Period. His lectures reference Shohaku Okumura’s book “Living by Vow; A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts.” Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teac…
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Basic Meditation – Guided Meditation – 2/28/25
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21:09Norman gives a guided mediation on “Basic Meditation.” Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teachings We cannot continue offering teachings online without it. Thank you! https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/edz.assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Guided-meditation-Basic-Meditation-2_28_2025.mp3…
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Living by Vow – Talk 4 – 2025 Series – The Three Refuges
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52:34Norman gives the fourth talk of the “Living by Vow” 2025 Series on The Three Refuges to the Dharma Seminar as the focus of the Everyday Zen 2025 Practice Period. His lectures reference Shohaku Okumura’s book “Living by Vow; A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts.” Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-tea…
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Breath, Perfect Harmony, and a History More Beautiful and More Terrible w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
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12:37Rev Dana follows up on her dharma talk from the last episode dropped on February 18th. She adds to her perspective on the current historical conditions of our time in the United States, talks about breath practice, and offers a chant she's used often for the dying, from Thich Nhat Hanh. Check out the 2011 book Dana discusses in this episode: More B…
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The lion’s roar.
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Living by Vow – Talk 3 – 2025 Series – Shuso Laura Trippi – Vowing Through Forms
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22:33Shuso Laura Trippi gives the third dharma talk of the “Living by Vow” 2025 Series to the Dharma Seminar as the focus of the Everyday Zen 2025 Practice Period. Her talk is on “Vowing Through Forms” referencing Shohaku Okumura’s book “Living by Vow; A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts.” Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.…
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The Golden Pavilion Has Weird Ghosts (Ep. 166)
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13:58* Ad-free versions of episodes are available to Patrons. Thank you for your support and helping us pay for rent and recent hospital bills. We couldn't do this without you! --Rich, the sound guy. Join Terrie on a trip to Kyoto's iconic Golden Pavilion and uncover its lesser-known stories: its real name isn't Kinkaku-ji, it survived multiple lightnin…
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Undivided Activity (Part 1): The Buddha Way
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48:37This talk kicks off the line-by-line commentary on Dogen's fascicle "Shobogenzo Zenki – Undivided Activity," which participants in BZC's Everyday Bodhisattva Practice Period study together over the course of 3 month. The talk discusses the title and the first sentence, which together introduce four central ideas: (1) undivided activity (that everyt…
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Episode 254: Loving Kindness Is Not An Idea
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11:25You cannot think your way into Loving Kindness…
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Widening Our View and The Challenge of Seeing Perfection w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
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30:46Hello, listeners of Opening Dharma Access, for February, we're doing things a little bit different by offering you some meditations and Dharma talks on current conditions as 2025 brings to the United States a whole bunch of difficult circumstances: the L.A. fires; the current administration. This dharma talk is from co-host Rev. Dana Takagi. Dana s…
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Recorded on June, 19 2023 at SAZC ----- The San Antonio Zen Center is supported solely by Dana (the paramita of generosity) so that everyone can participate in our offerings and programs regardless of income. Please consider making a donation to SAZC on our site sanantoniozen.org or by visitingPayPal.me/sanantoniozen…
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Recorded on June, 4 2023 at SAZC ----- The San Antonio Zen Center is supported solely by Dana (the paramita of generosity) so that everyone can participate in our offerings and programs regardless of income. Please consider making a donation to SAZC on our site sanantoniozen.org or by visitingPayPal.me/sanantoniozen…
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Norman gives his second talk of the “Living by Vow” 2025 Series to the Dharma Seminar as the focus of the Everyday Zen 2025 Practice Period. His lectures reference Shohaku Okumura’s book “Living by Vow; A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts.” Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teachings We cannot cont…
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Transmission of the Lamp – Ashvaghosha – Zen Center for Contemplative Care 2/10/25
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38:04Norman gives a talk from the “Transmission of the Lamp” on Ashvaghosa to the Zen Center for Contemplative Care Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teachings We cannot continue offering teachings online without it. Thank you! https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/edz.assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Transmission-of-the-Lamp-Ashvagh…
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Meditation on Safety with Rev. Liên Shutt
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20:25Meditation to find stability in the midst of current threats in our world: nationally, world-wide, and with climate justice. -- Given at EBMC BIPOC Sangha REV. LIÊN SHUTT (she/they) is a recognized leader in the movement that breaks through the wall of American white-centered convert Buddhism to welcome people of all backgrounds into a contemporary…
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Recorded on May 27, 2023 at SAZC ----- The San Antonio Zen Center is supported solely by Dana (the paramita of generosity) so that everyone can participate in our offerings and programs regardless of income. Please consider making a donation to SAZC on our site sanantoniozen.org or by visitingPayPal.me/sanantoniozen…
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Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Dogen, Fullness and Sacred Ordinary Life
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49:01Today we dance with an insightful scholar's paper on Dogen Zenji's unique and profound ideas regarding fullness, universal liberation, the sacred as "immanent in space and time", Buddhahood in the "fundamental activity of the world," practice-realization as "liberating activity", Zen practice as the "practice of Buddhahood," and the fullness and sa…
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Sanko Enrique Valdivia - Beyond The Last Thought
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20:44Recorded on May 20, 2023 at SAZC ----- The San Antonio Zen Center is supported solely by Dana (the paramita of generosity) so that everyone can participate in our offerings and programs regardless of income. Please consider making a donation to SAZC on our site sanantoniozen.org or by visitingPayPal.me/sanantoniozen…
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Recorded on May 13, 2023 at SAZC ----- The San Antonio Zen Center is supported solely by Dana (the paramita of generosity) so that everyone can participate in our offerings and programs regardless of income. Please consider making a donation to SAZC on our site sanantoniozen.org or by visitingPayPal.me/sanantoniozen…
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Recorded on May 1, 2023 at SAZC ----- The San Antonio Zen Center is supported solely by Dana (the paramita of generosity) so that everyone can participate in our offerings and programs regardless of income. Please consider making a donation to SAZC on our site sanantoniozen.org or by visitingPayPal.me/sanantoniozen…
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Norman gives his first talk of the “Living by Vow” 2025 Series to the Dharma Seminar as the focus of the Everyday Zen 2025 Practice Period. His lectures reference Shohaku Okumura’s book “Living by Vow; A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts.” Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teachings We cannot conti…
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Episode 253: The Primordial Darkness of Ignorance
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11:38Did Buddha pierce right through the primordial darkness of ignorance?
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Everything Is Functioning Together to Create This Moment
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48:43This talk was given during a Boulder Zen Center Weekend Sitting. It contemplates the phrase "Everything is functioning together to create this moment." It suggests to understand "this moment" not as a time unit but as the infinite experiential space that presents itself here-now. We can approach the experience of "everything" by letting go of the f…
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Take a journey through the historical walking routes of old Edo Japan, focusing on the Gokaido (Five Edo Routes). Learn about the political significance of these routes and their role in maintaining peace during the Tokugawa shogunate's 250-year reign. Click here for Adventure Travel inspiration from our friends at Explore Worldwide. Don’t Just Tra…
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Talk: Healing in Time & Space with Rev. Liên Shutt
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34:17Hello, listeners of Opening Dharma Access, for February, we're doing things a little bit different by offering you some meditations and Dharma talks on current conditions as 2025 brings to the United States a whole bunch of difficult circumstances: the L.A. fires; the inauguration. NOTE: This talk was given at a BIPOC group, addressing specific fea…
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Practice Period Opening 2025 – All Day Sitting – Norman Fischer and Shuso Laura Trippi
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55:26Norman opens the 2025 Everyday Zen Practice Period with a talk on Dogen’s practice period instructions followed by Shuso Laura Trippi’s readings of selected practice period intentions from submissions of some of the participants .Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teachings We cannot continue offering teachings online without i…
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Dogen’s Continuous Practice – 2024/5 Series – On Language (Painting a Rice Cake)
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49:07Norman gives the seventeenth talk to the Dharma Seminar on Dogen’s Continuous Practice from Kaz Tanahashi”s translation of the Shobogenzo Fasciles 31a and 31b. In this talk Norman speaks On Language (Painting of a Rice Cake). .Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teachings We cannot continue offering teachings online without it. …
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What does it mean to be fearless?
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