Zen Mind

Zenki Christian Dillo

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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Zen Mind

Episodes (153)

Apr 30th Make Your Whole Life the Garden
Apr 16th This Mind Here Now is Buddha
Apr 2nd The Mind is Mountains, Rivers, and the Earth

Zen Mind

Apr 30, 2026
46 minutes
32 MB

This talk is about how aliveness wants to unfold through our life process. It opens with the question of what it means to find an activity that expresses one's aliveness (for example gardening), and how to widen it so it can inform all of life's activities. The talk names five unfoldings of a "realizational life": aliveness, order, expression, form, and Way. Each requires the practitioner's awake participation; none can be skipped or forced. The talk also names three ways aliveness can be displaced rather than expressed in the present: deferral into the future, nostalgia, and longing for an imagined...

Zen Mind

Make Your Whole Life the Garden

Zenki Christian Dillo

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