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Zen Mind

by Zenki Christian Dillo

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The Buddha's First Teaching

October 22, 2026 · 41 min

Given at the Boulder Zen Center as the opening talk of the course Enacting the Four Noble Truths, this talk begins with the formula in which the teaching was handed down: there is suffering, there is a cause, because there is a cause there…
Steady Without Solid Ground

October 15, 2026 · 49 min

This talk was given at a Boulder Zen Center One-Day Sitting for young adults in collaboration with Dharma Gates. It starts with the gap between what we expect of meditation and what we actually experience: aches and pains, and thoughts…
Let It Come, Not Go

October 1, 2026 · 42 min

This talk starts from the common wish for a peaceful place in ourselves that protects us permanently from difficulty. The talk invokes the koan "Dongshan's No Cold or Heat" and reads it as a teaching about our relationship to impermanence…
Sitting With Your Karma

September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

Given at a One-Day Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center, this talk picks up a question left open in the previous episode, "Sitting Like a Buddha." If zazen is not a means to awakening but its enactment, what about karma? Thoughts, fragments…
Sitting Like a Buddha

September 3, 2026 · 56 min

Where are you located in your body? Most of us, without ever having chosen it, sense ourselves somewhere behind the eyes. Zazen instructions typically bundle two separable practices: disidentifying from thinking, and relocating the self in…

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Studying the Mind Through the Senses (Part 3)

August 20, 2026 · 50 min

One week after the Open Sky weekend, this talk was given at the Boulder Zen Center and turns that earlier study of the senses toward a question asked after morning meditation: How do we live well? Two answers our culture commonly offers…
Studying the Mind Through the Senses (Part 2)

August 6, 2026 · 44 min

Given outdoors during our recent Open Sky Practice, this talk takes up the Yogācāra teaching of the eight consciousnesses, which splits mind into three to address self, continuity, and karma. (1) Mano, the conceptual consciousness, binds…
Studying the Mind Through the Senses (Part 1)

July 23, 2026 · 41 min

Given outdoors during our recent Open Sky Practice, this talk takes up the Buddhist approach to the senses. Where we usually count five, Buddhism counts six, treating mind as a sense alongside seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touch…
Is Zen Buddhist Daoism?

July 9, 2026 · 58 min

Zen is an amalgamation of Buddhism and Daoism. But which way around: is it a Buddhism with a Daoist inflection, or a Daoism reinventing itself through a Buddhist lens? The question is practical. Zen can be sparse on how zazen translates…
Even This Belongs

June 25, 2026 · 47 min

To be alive is to have problems. While having problems is unpleasant, the deeper difficulty, this talk proposes, is not the problems themselves but the resistance we bring to them. Suffering is not one thing; it is pain multiplied by…
What You Already Want (On the Precepts)

June 11, 2026 · 38 min

This talk was given the day before a Bodhisattva Precepts Ceremony (Jukai) for five members of the Boulder Zen Center sangha. After describing the ceremony's lineage papers and the intentional family one joins by receiving the precepts…
Just Now is Enough

May 28, 2026 · 42 min

This talk was given at a One-Day Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center in partnership with Dharma Gates, an organization dedicated to opening pathways into formal meditation practice for young adults. The talk's central concern, however…

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About the show

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.