Chobo-Ji's Zen Podcast

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the June 2020 half-day sit (zazenkai) at Chobo-Ji. It is not enough to be color-blind; this is only the start of clear seeing. We must see the shadow if injustice and the dust of inequity and be antiracist.

Sam (Koû) Tullman gave this Follower of the Way Dharma talk Sunday evening, June 7, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines the need for engaged Buddhism in these trying times.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, May 31, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines the Three Tenets put forth by Roshi Bernie Glassman and the Zen Peacemaker Order and how these tenets can serve us in these troubled times.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, May 24, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines the ingredients needed for a strong practice

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, May 17, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines this matter of life and death. Where do we go after death? What is the Great Death? Picture is of Conner Dassa-Holland, 18.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, May 10, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines the Hakuin Zenji's, The Song of Zazen and the phrase, "Sentient beings are primarily all Buddhas."

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, May 3, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This examines the Three Prostrations - Sanpai - and their meaning – Diving into and merging with the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, April 26, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the key koan: Who is sitting here? Who are we really?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, April 19, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to be unchained to our preferences, opinions and desires, and how to flow more like water as we respond to the circumstances we find in this moment.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, April 12, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores opening to Blue Sky or Oceanic Mind which helps us deal with our trials and tribulations.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, April 5, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance of fostering the basics of Zen practice during this pandemic.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this informal Dharma talk Sunday evening, March 22, 2020, after zazen at Chobo-Ji. This talk, and the dialogue that follows, explores how to respond to the pandemic from a Zen practice perspective. Do you appreciate these podcasts? If so please consider a $1 contrabution to Chobo-Ji's Paypal account, rating this program (follow link to your Apple Podcast App) or writting a positive review. Thank you.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the March 2020 half-day sit (zazenkai) at Chobo-Ji. We must not remain neutral, we must advance from the top of a 100-foot pole, and get our feet muddy working to live life fully in the care of all beings. Do you appreciate these podcasts? If so please consider a $1 contrabution to Chobo-Ji's Paypal account, rating this program (follow link to your Apple Podcast App) or writting a positive review. Thank you.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the February 2020 half-day sit (zazenkai) at Chobo-Ji. This case examines the use of esoteric symbols, their importance, their limitations and their misuse. Do you appreciate these podcasts? If so please consider a $1 contrabution to Chobo-Ji's Paypal account, rating this program (follow link to your Apple Podcast App) or writting a positive review. Thank you.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the January 2020 half-day sit (zazenkai) at Chobo-Ji. This case examines the three phases of spiritual practice leading to maturity. Do you appreciate these podcasts? If so please consider a $1 contrabution to Chobo-Ji's Paypal account, rating this program (follow link to your Apple Podcast App) or writting a positive review. Thank you.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the December 2019 half-day sit (zazenkai) at No Rank Zendo in Portland, OR. When we feel the Permanent Principle, we are "alive and frisky!" Where does this vitality go after we die? Do you appreciate these podcasts? If so please consider a $1 contrabution to Chobo-Ji's Paypal account, rating this program (follow link to your Apple Podcast App) or writting a positive review. Thank you.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the seventh day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2019. This talk explores what to bring from sesshin to daily life. We work to combust or digest our stuck places so that we might bring the love of Maitreya into the world.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the sixth day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2019. This talk explores how we requite our filial piety for our parents and teachers, and also explores how to process our loss, pain, sorrow, and primitive craziness.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the fifth day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2019. This talk explores the simile of how our ego is a lot like a monkey looking out at the world and examines the journey of the Ten Zen Ox Pictures.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the middle day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2019. This talk explores how to accept things as they are while going forward with what needs to be done.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the November 2019 half-day sit (zazenkai) at Chobo-Ji. Why is it that cats, dogs, cows and many other animals often know more about love than we do? In this case the five kinds of spiritual blindness are examined.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the October 2019 half-day sit (zazenkai) at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines two kinds of basic instruction (expedients and principles) on how to deal with impediments in zazen.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the sixth day of Autumn Sesshin 2019. This talk explores our ability to see with the same eye and hear with the same ear as Buddha. And examines what keeps us from seeing this way more frequently.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the fifth day of Autumn Sesshin 2019. This talk explores what's needed and expected in koan study. It also examines the Head and Tail of Zen practice - deep perception blended with deep samadhi.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the third day of Autumn Sesshin 2019. This talk explores the downside of Buddhist practice, learning how to sit in the midst of the deepest, fear, regret, doubt, anger, pain, fatigue and not move.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the September Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance of mentors and spiritual companions in our life. The heart of Zen has no dependence on words or formulas and everything to do with original insight expressed in daily life with a caring heart.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the August 2019 half-day sit (zazenkai) at Chobo-Ji. Only through maturity does so called "enlightenment" become "no enlightenment."

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the July Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines the fact that we cannot escape our mortality, nor can we escape our deep transcendent nature.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the fifth day of Summer Sesshin 2019. This talk explores Zen Master Joshu's instruction to his disciple Genyo about the necessity of throwing away one's own "enlightenment", so that we can better live a life of simplicity, kindness and doing what needs doing.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the middle day of Summer Sesshin 2019. This talk explores the wide and quick moving expanse of the human condition. This Teisho is very personal and includes explicit language.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the third day of Summer Sesshin 2019. This talk explores Zen Master Ungan's metaphor for The Great Compassionate One - It's like reaching for your pillow.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the June Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the realization of Dharmakaya and what we do with this realization. How do we love all beings, even Donald Trump?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the June Zazenkai at No Rank Zendo in Portland, OR. This talk explores simple, clear, direct, innocent speech, and also examines our desire for ease of mind.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the May 2019 half-day sit (zazenkai) at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines how we try to point at the ineffable. What does it mean to experience "Just This?"

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the April Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the fact that we have always been complete and that we are never completed. This realization marks the "completion of study."

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Seattle University Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores Shikantaza - the core practice of "Just Sitting" listening gently and attentively to the symphony of now. Shikantaza is a prerequisite to koan study and central to both Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen practice.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the 6th day of Spring Sesshin 2019. This talk explores why many "Zen Masters" and gurus of all kinds fail in the West and also explores how to move beyond realization to maturity.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the 5th day of Spring Sesshin 2019. This talk explores how we are all pushed around by the surface waves of arising and vanishing, coming and going, life and death. The Zen solution is to cultivate a deep keel.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the middle day of Spring Sesshin 2019. This talk explores the four artificial walls that separate us from "enlightenment" and how to dismantle them by listening to our bodies and observing mind.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during Chobo-Ji's, March 2019, zazenkai. This talk explores how Zen masters point and prod us towards finding our own way in this matter of life and death.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on during Chobo-Ji's, Feb. 2019, zazenkai. This talk explores the playfulness of two Zen masters, Ummon and Kempo. Oh that we all could be this sharp and intimate.

This "Follower of the Way" Dharma Talk was given by Peter Shinke Ilgenfritz on January 20, 2019 at Chobo-Ji. Shinke reviews how Zen practice has influenced his life since his first sesshin in 2002 by going over three koans that have most informed his journey.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during Chobo-Ji's, Jan. 2019, zazenkai. This talk explores how to find the path of flowering and individuation beyond ego inflation and deflation. How do we face rejection? What comes after "enlightenment?"

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the No Rank Zendo zazenkai in Dec. 2018. This talk explores the intimacy an open heart-mind and how our discriminating mind gets in our way prior to a breakthrough and then becomes more refined afterwards. This talk also explores the use of koans as can opener to our deep heart-mind, where the "teacher" asks the question and the "student" investigates with the only instruction to do zazen.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the seventh day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2018. This talk explores the shame of attaching to our clarity or awakening. It also explores our deep family relations in or out of sesshin.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the sixth day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2018. This talk explores the use of affirmation and negation in Zen training and the importance of not relying on clarity for everyday openheartedness.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the fifth day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2018. This talk explores the core teaching of the Zen tradition as demonstrated by Zen Master Roso Houn (Luzu Baoyun), a Dharma Heir of Baso Doitsu and Dharma Brother to Nansen and Hyakujo. It also explores how to enter samadhi when exhausted, dull or full of doubt.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the third day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2018. This talk explores the importance of association with a mature teacher to learn how to transcend our haughtiness and how to better give and receive criticism.

In this talk, given during Rohatsu Sesshin, Dec. 3rd 2018, Rinzan Pechovnik Osho examines Hekigonroku (Blue Cliff Record) Case #100, "Haryo's Sword Against Which a Hair is Blown." When asked "What is the sword against which a hair is blown?" Haryo answered, "Each branch of coral embraces the bright moon." Given this, how do we accept and embrace each and every aspect of our life? How do we allow ourselves to see beauty in all things?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the November, 2018, Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores Case 21 of the Book of Equanimity. This case examines pointing at the moon, eating at the same table, Auschwitz Birkenau, the passing of Tetsugen Bernie Glassman and just sweeping.