Chobo-Ji's Zen Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Autumn 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the leaf, tree and root perspectives.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Sept. 8, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the Zen enso and its meaning. How do we sit in the middle of the circle of form and non-form?

This talk was given at this year's annual gathering of the American Zen Teachers Association held at the Great Vow Monastery in Oregon. This talk explores what Genjo Osho sees as the essence of Zen practice and the Four Great Bodhisattva Vows.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the final day of Summer Odayaka Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the treasures of a brier patch and how to use the transcendent to play with the relative and absolute.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Summer Odayaka Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how the riger and ritual of our Zen practice drops us off at several different locations that have no path.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Summer Odayaka Sesshin, 2024, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the place of affirmation and negation in Zen training.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Aug. 11, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to cultivate deep mindfulness, presence and gravitas, which leads to more care and compassion for ourselves and this world.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the July 21, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how precious and rare this life is, and the importance of not getting trapped in our own right and wrong thinking.

Sendo Osho gave this Dharma Talk on the fifth day of Summer Sesshin 2024 at Chobo-Ji. She examines why did Bodhidharma come from the West.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Summer Sesshin 2024 at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what is needed to reverse our madness towards each other and our planet: mindfulness, deeply seeing things as they are, and loving action.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Summer Sesshin 2024 at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how our bodies sitting in the zendo, become a mountain form seamless with the planet, seamless with the Dharma.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Summer Sesshin 2024 at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how our universe awakened and the role of our flowering in it.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Summer Sesshin 2024 at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores our ability die to our ego identity and find the deep truth of our existence.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the June 9, 2024, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how everything is mortal including the planet, the sun, the galaxy and the universe. Is this depressing or freeing?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the June 2, 2024 Seattle University Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores Verses on The Faith Mind by the Third Chinese Zen Ancestor. The talk also explores possibilities for Dark matter and Dark energy.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the May 26, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to transcend being chained to our preferences.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the April 14, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines what it would take to end all wars and prejudice.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the sixth day of Spring Sesshin, 2024. This talk examines the Zen perspective on this matter of Life and Death. What is life? What is eternal?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Spring Sesshin, 2024. Holding out arm stretched hands, what does that mean?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Spring Sesshin, 2024. Zen koans are usually much simpler than we ever imagined. This talk examines how our discriminating mind often separates us from light and love.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the first day of Spring Sesshin, 2024. This talk examines how to pass through the gateless barrier of Zen using the mantra: let go, let be. It also explores Genjo's relationship to Dr. Glenn Kangan Webb.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the March 10, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines how we might lose our life to find our life.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the final day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2024. This talk examines the most important use of Zen practice. It is not to achieve enlightenment, but to combust our personal and generational karmic dung. (Note: explicit content)

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the second day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2024. This talk examines what is like to breakthrough to the positive absolute perspective of reality, which is often the start of one's deep journey towards maturity.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the Feb. 23, 2024 during the first day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin. This talk examines cancel culture and the problems associated with stringent and fixed dualistic thinking. Instead, it is important to nurture particle after particle samadhi.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Feb. 11, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines what real maturity looks like.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Jan. 14, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines how to meet criticisms and mistakes or well or poorly.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the last full day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2023, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the gravity well that holds the universe and may be thought of as the Dharmakaya or the Beyond the Beyond.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the sixth day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2023, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores one of the core koans of Rinzai Zen training, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fourth day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2023, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the art of juggling the three lenses for relating to reality, the relative, the absolute and the transcendent.