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