Best Genjo Podcasts (2024)

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Genjo Koan (Part 9): Buddha-Nature in Action 1:01:20

16d ago1:01:20

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This talk concludes the line-by-line commentary on the Genjo Koan. Dogen has given us a clear (and maybe disappointing) vision of practice. We are never done with our practice. It's not like we are practicing in order to reach enlightenment, and once we have realized it, we're good. Instead, we are challenged to express enlightenment through our pr…

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On Formal and Daily Practice 45:35

3h ago45:35

45:35

This talk was given as part of the closing ceremony of the 3-month Everyday Zen Practice Period. At the end of retreats and periods of intensified practice, many practitioners wonder how they can carry the renewed and invigorated sense of practice into their everyday lives. The answer is simple but not easy to implement: continue to stay fully pres…

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Hekiganroku - Case 56 25:20

4d ago25:20

25:20

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.

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Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Keizan Zenji's Zazen-Yojinki (2) 44:30

12d ago44:30

44:30

We continue our series on Master Keizan's 'Zazen-Yōjinki'or 'Notes to Keep in Heart for Zazen' Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: HERE»By Treeleaf Zendo

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Hekiganroku - Case 55 32:51

24d ago32:51

32:51

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?

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Hekiganroku - Case 54 26:57

27d ago26:57

26:57

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

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Hekiganroku - Case 53 28:34

1M ago28:34

28:34

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.

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Let Go Let Be 29:13

29d ago29:13

29:13

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.

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Genjo Koan (Part 8): Life Is a Bird, Life Is a Fish 56:40

1M ago56:40

56:40

This talk is the eighth in the series on Dogen's Genjo Koan. Dogen views realization not as an experience of oneness or a discovery of the ground of being but as an endless and groundless path of engaging the mystery and challenge of the present moment. In comparing our human life on this earth to the life of a bird in the sky and a fish in the oce…

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Genjo Koan (Part 2): Flowers Fall, Weeds Spread 58:19

2M ago58:19

58:19

This talk is the second in the series on Dogen's Genjo Koan. It is a close reading of the first four sentences. First, it provides an understanding of dharmas as momentary experiential units. Then it discusses Dogen's seemingly contradictory presentation of the dharma (the teaching of liberation) in light of the classic path of awakening, the teach…

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Chiyono's No Water, No Moon 22:18

2M ago22:18

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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.

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Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Keizan Zenji's Zazen-Yojinki (1) 45:38

2M ago45:38

45:38

Master Keizan, considered with Master Dogen one of the two "Founders" of Soto Zen in Japan, lived from 1264 to 1325. His essay “Zazen-Yōjinki” might be considered an expansion and further exploration of Dogen's explanation of Zazen, the 'Fukanzazengi'. The advice is often very practical, covering such topics as how to sit, breathe, what to wear, ea…

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Hekiganroku - Case 52 29:28

2M ago29:28

29:28

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)

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Hekiganroku - Case 51 36:54

2M ago36:54

36:54

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.

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Hekianroku - Caase 50 31:26

2M ago31:26

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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.

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Genjo Koan (Part 1): To Complete That Which Appears 46:07

2M ago46:07

46:07

This talk kicks off a lecture series on Dogen's most celebrated writing, the Genjo Koan. It explores the meaning of the title phrase, which informs the entire text. GEN means to appear, JO means to complete. KO can be understood as the universal, while AN points to what is particular and unique. So GENJO KOAN means: to complete what appears as simu…

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Hekiganroku - Case 49 22:09

2M ago22:09

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

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Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Dedication of Merit 35:33

2M ago35:33

35:33

Today's Talk will reflect on our "Dedication of Merit", which we recite each time, but maybe without looking closely Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Dedication of Merit»By Treeleaf Zendo

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An Appropriate Way of Life (Everyday Bodhisattva Practice) 44:32

3M ago44:32

44:32

This talk was given as an opening talk for the 2024 Boulder Zen Center - Everyday Zen Practice Period (Jan 20 - April 13). It discusses the concept and tradition of 'Three-Month Practice Periods' and explores how to go beyond the value judgments implicit in the Lay/Monastic distinction. At the root of all transformative practice is the sincere, com…

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Continuous Opening 46:36

3M ago46:36

46:36

This talk explores how in times of crisis we can feel shaken by an experiences of groundlessness, and how we try to maintain and hold onto a sense of self as a defense against such groundlessness. We also employ language and understanding for that purpose of illusory grounding. Zen is not about perfecting our sense of self or our conceptual underst…

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Hekiganroku - Case 48 27:35

3M ago27:35

27:35

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.

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Beginning Anew 51:12

3M ago51:12

51:12

The philosopher Hannah Arendt considered the "capacity to begin anew" the essence of being human. This talk, given on the day before New Year's Eve, weaves our longing for new beginnings together with Buddhist notions of continuous birth and beginner's mind, and with practices of forgetting and forgiving. The talk ends with a reflection of how rene…

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Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Genjokoan Series (6) 33:08

4M ago33:08

33:08

This is the sixth (and last) in our monthly series based on the modernized translation of the Genjo Koan, from Jundo's book "The Zen Master's Dance" A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe. Today a message very appropriate for a good life in this New Year and every day ... Further reading and discussion for this talk are avai…

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What is Being Authentic? 1:06:42

4M ago1:06:42

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This talk is a wide-ranging exploration of seemingly disparate topics such as 'a life lived authentically," subjectivity vs. objectivity, truth, spiritual awakening, transcendence, and the postmodern condition. It starts with a statement by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, "When you become you, Zen becomes Zen. When you are you, you see things as they are, an…

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Thorough Practice of the Great Way 47:32

4M ago47:32

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This talk was given as part of a weekend zazen intensive. Based on the opening paragraphs of Dogen's fascicle 'Zenki' (Undivided Activity), the talk explores the Buddhist views of interdependence and field of mind and gives pointers for how to verify them in one's own experience. Welcome to Zen Mind! Please consider donating to our annual fundraise…

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Hekiganroku - Case 47 21:56

5M ago21:56

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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.

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The Sound of One Hand 23:54

5M ago23:54

23:54

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?"

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Hekiganroku - Case 46 31:33

5M ago31:33

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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.

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Hekiganroku - Case 45 25:15

5M ago25:15

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Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2023, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the one fabric that has no form let alone a name.

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Heikiganroku - Case 44 25:27

5M ago25:27

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Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2023, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the deep samadhi of True Passing.

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On Gratitude 47:15

5M ago47:15

47:15

Given during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, this talk explores the experience and practice of gratitude. Gratitude is the appreciation of that which nourishes and sustains us. Bowing is an expression of such gratitude. We can practice bowing to our parents and ancestors acknowledging the gift of life that has come to us through them. As we bow t…

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Episode 9: Suffering and Stoicism 20:12

5M ago20:12

20:12

Life is full of suffering. Happiness is fleeting. But even with all our modern problems, the Ancients can teach us how to stand firm against the storm. No one in history has understood this more deeply than the Stoics of Greece and Rome. Strength and Wisdom is offered from the hands of Emperors and Commoners alike. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dean…

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Zen Ethics 53:17

5M ago53:17

53:17

This talk introduces the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts ahead of an annual Precepts Initiation Ceremony at Boulder Zen Center. It presents the precepts as a pragmatic approach to practicing an ethical life that avoids the extremes of universalism and relativism. The precepts can be understood and practiced on three levels: (1) guarding against self-center…

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Hekiganroku - Case 43 28:17

5M ago28:17

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Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Nov. 12, 2023, Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines how to face personal and world traumas without becoming overwhelmed.

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