Zen Mind

By Zenki Christian Dillo

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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.


Episode Date
This Mind Here Now is Buddha
Apr 16, 2026
The Mind is Mountains, Rivers, and the Earth
Apr 02, 2026
Resonance - In Touch with the Root of Compassion
Mar 19, 2026
Completing the Past in the Present
Mar 05, 2026
Noticing with Subtlety
Feb 19, 2026
Timelessness, Change, and Everyday Life
Feb 05, 2026
Staying in the Zone of Nourishment
Jan 22, 2026
Receiving and Unfolding (On Right Intention)
Jan 08, 2026
What Can Be Relied On When Everything Changes
Dec 25, 2025
Freedom Within Limitations - Sesshin Day 3
Dec 11, 2025
Best of Zen Mind: Stepping Back (and Back In)
Nov 27, 2025
Best of Zen Mind: No Inside, No Outside
Nov 13, 2025
Best of Zen Mind: Pause for the Pause
Oct 30, 2025
Embodied Presence – Why It Matters!
Oct 19, 2025
Nothing Missing
Oct 02, 2025
Shot through with Space (Part 3)
Sep 18, 2025
Shot through with Space (Part 2)
Sep 04, 2025
Shot through with Space (Part 1)
Aug 21, 2025
Breathing Through the Whole Body
Aug 08, 2025
Being Touched By Life
Jul 24, 2025
The Art of Enough
Jul 10, 2025
On Alienation and Intimacy
Jun 26, 2025
The Wisdom and Compassion of Not-Knowing
Jun 12, 2025
How to Empty the Mind (and Invite Wisdom)
May 29, 2025
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
May 15, 2025
Constancy in Practice: Zazen, Views, Relationships
May 01, 2025
Finding Your Energy Body - Sesshin Day 5
Apr 17, 2025
Unfolding the Path of Practice: Zenki Roshi in Conversation with Nicky Antonellis
Apr 03, 2025
Undivided Activity (Guided Meditation): Life as It Appears Here Now
Mar 20, 2025
Undivided Activity (Part 2): Liberation and Actualization
Mar 06, 2025
Undivided Activity (Part 1): The Buddha Way
Feb 20, 2025
Everything Is Functioning Together to Create This Moment
Feb 06, 2025
Committed to Here (Practice Period Opening Talk)
Jan 23, 2025
Each Moment Is Material for Awakening (Everyday Bodhisattva Practice) - Sesshin Day 7
Jan 09, 2025
Happiness, Contentment, and Attentional Presence
Dec 26, 2024
Our Entanglement with Thinking- Sesshin Day 3
Dec 12, 2024
Stepping Back (and Back In)
Nov 28, 2024
Transforming Habits and the Rewards of Open Awareness
Nov 15, 2024
Welcoming Beginner's Mind–A Conversation with Gaylon Ferguson
Oct 31, 2024
Expressing Buddha Mind through the Precepts
Oct 17, 2024
The Craft of Habit Transformation
Oct 06, 2024
How to Mind Your Problems
Sep 20, 2024
Attention, Openness, and Pace in Daily Life
Sep 05, 2024
Attention to Attention (Part 2)
Aug 22, 2024
Attention to Attention (Part 1)
Aug 08, 2024
What Would A Buddha Do?
Jul 25, 2024
On Community (Part 2)
Jul 11, 2024
Pause for the Pause
Jun 27, 2024
Zen and Focusing as Personal Practice, an interview with Dr. Greg Madison
Jun 13, 2024
On Community (Part 1)
May 29, 2024
Effortless Effort: Republished from 2022
May 16, 2024
What's Love Got to Do With It? (Sesshin Day 1)
May 01, 2024
On Formal and Daily Practice
Apr 19, 2024
Genjo Koan (Part 9): Buddha-Nature in Action
Apr 03, 2024
Genjo Koan (Part 8): Life Is a Bird, Life Is a Fish
Mar 20, 2024
Genjo Koan (Part 2): Flowers Fall, Weeds Spread
Mar 06, 2024
Genjo Koan (Part 1): To Complete That Which Appears
Feb 21, 2024
An Appropriate Way of Life (Everyday Bodhisattva Practice)
Feb 07, 2024
Continuous Opening
Jan 24, 2024
Beginning Anew
Jan 10, 2024
What is Being Authentic?
Dec 27, 2023
Thorough Practice of the Great Way
Dec 13, 2023
On Gratitude
Nov 29, 2023
Zen Ethics
Nov 13, 2023
No Inside, No Outside
Sep 27, 2023
Don't Worry, Stay Present
Sep 20, 2023
An Appropriate Response
Sep 06, 2023
Ask Me Anything with Zenki Roshi
Aug 31, 2023
The Every Day Dance of Form and Emptiness (Meaning and Meaninglessness)
Aug 23, 2023
The Everyday Dance of Form and Emptiness (Birth and Death)
Aug 09, 2023
The Everyday Dance of Form and Emptiness (Order and Chaos)
Jul 26, 2023
The Everyday Dance of Form and Emptiness (Introduction)
Jul 12, 2023
Doing No Harm
Jun 28, 2023
A Culture of Transformation (in the Age of Ecological Crisis)
Jun 14, 2023
Every Day Is a Good Day
May 31, 2023
Giving Aliveness to Life
May 17, 2023
Why Bodyfulness?
May 03, 2023
Present, Spacious, Alive
Apr 19, 2023
Open to Complexity
Apr 05, 2023
The Moment-to-Moment Path to Being Present
Mar 22, 2023
Empty of a Separate Self
Mar 08, 2023
Continuous Practice
Feb 22, 2023
Good For Nothing
Feb 08, 2023
What Am I?
Jan 25, 2023
On Intent and Hope
Jan 11, 2023
Longing for Resonance
Dec 28, 2022
Don't Try to Control
Dec 14, 2022
Liberation and Aliveness
Nov 30, 2022
The Inmost Request
Nov 16, 2022
Participating in the Great Mystery
Nov 04, 2022
What is Wisdom?
Oct 18, 2022
The Practice of Bodyfulness
Sep 30, 2022
The Four Gates of Mindfulness
Sep 16, 2022
Existential Darkness and Everyday Practice
Aug 24, 2022
The Dharma Gate of Ease and Joy
Aug 18, 2022
Enlightenment, Practice, Aliveness
Aug 05, 2022
Taking Your Seat in Emptiness
Jul 14, 2022
The Body and Mind of the Precepts
Jun 05, 2022
Big Mind and the Real Purpose of Buddhism
May 22, 2022
What is Buddha?
Apr 10, 2022
Acknowledging All Your Concerns (incl. the War)
Mar 17, 2022
The Physical, Energetic, and Mental Posture of Zazen
Feb 26, 2022
Effortless Effort
Feb 11, 2022
“Your Problem Will Practice Zazen”
Jan 28, 2022
Setting Intentions
Jan 16, 2022
Studying the Way (Part 5)
Sep 30, 2021
Studying the Way (Part 4)
Sep 10, 2021
Studying the Way (Part 3)
Aug 27, 2021
Studying the Way (Part 2)
Aug 13, 2021
Instructions for Zazen
Aug 05, 2021
Studying the Way (Part 1)
Jul 21, 2021
Awareness is the Ultimate Fact
Jul 08, 2021
Conducting the Orchestra of Mind
Jun 23, 2021
Modalities of Mind
Jun 11, 2021
Daily Zazen
May 19, 2021
A Fresh Look at Discipline
May 13, 2021
The Path of Nourishment
Jan 22, 2021
Working with Habits/Karma (Part 4)
Jan 14, 2021
Working with Habits/Karma (Part 3)
Dec 25, 2020
Working with Habits/Karma (Part 2)
Dec 10, 2020
Working with Habits/Karma (Part 1)
Nov 24, 2020
Compassion in Disagreement
Nov 07, 2020
The Precepts and the Three Poisons
Oct 17, 2020
Focus and Field
Oct 03, 2020
Just Sitting
Sep 19, 2020
More Real Than Reality
Sep 05, 2020
Homeless Home
Aug 29, 2020
Momentariness, Bodyfulness, Kindness
Jul 30, 2020
Emotional Freedom
Jul 16, 2020
Doing Something About Suffering
Jul 02, 2020
Groundlessness and Vow
Jun 25, 2020
Not Transcending Our Humanness
Jun 18, 2020
Racism and the Resonant Body
Jun 04, 2020
Noticing Without Thinking About
May 28, 2020
The 10,000 Things and I Share the Same Body
May 21, 2020
Momentary and Insubstantial
May 14, 2020
Practicing Impermanence
May 10, 2020
Modalities of Mind (Dealing with the Pandemic)
Apr 19, 2020
The Two Truths
Oct 23, 2019
The Five Dharmas
Oct 16, 2019
Three Bodies of Buddha
Sep 25, 2019
Non-Self – Inter|Independence
Sep 11, 2019
Non-Self – Dis|Identity
Sep 04, 2019
Non-Self – Dis|Continuity
Sep 04, 2019
Non-Self – Forgetting The Self
Aug 28, 2019
The Five Skandhas
Aug 21, 2019
Zazen – Four Gates of Breath Practice
Aug 14, 2019
Zazen – Uncorrected Mind
Aug 01, 2019
The Four Noble Truths
Jul 24, 2019
The Bodhisattva Ideal
Jul 18, 2019
How Things (Don’t) Exist
May 22, 2019
Harmony With Nature?
May 01, 2019