Episodes 149
Avg. Duration 47m
Activity Highly Active
Since May 2019
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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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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Completing the Past in the Present

Mar 05, 2026 47m

Zazen reveals how much of our mental struggle is bound up with time. The future presses in as plans, goals, and ideals of what we or the world should become. The past returns as memory,…

Noticing with Subtlety

Feb 19, 2026 49m

This talk was given as a practice encouragement before entering the silence of a Weekend Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center. It highlights aspects of zazen relevant for any practitioner. It begins…

Timelessness, Change, and Everyday Life

Feb 05, 2026 46m

This talk was given as an introduction to a multi-week study of Dogen’s essay Being-Time (Uji) during the Boulder Zen Center Everyday Bodhisattva Practice Period. It doesn’t go into the details of…

Staying in the Zone of Nourishment

Jan 22, 2026 49m

This talk was given at the opening of the 7th 90-day Everyday Bodhisattva Practice Period at the Boulder Zen Center, as participants were clarifying guiding intentions for the months ahead. Zen…

Receiving and Unfolding (On Right Intention)

Jan 08, 2026 40m

At the turn of the year, we often pause to reflect, set intentions, and imagine a better version of ourselves ahead. Yet often we experience a stubborn gap between those ideals and the lived texture…

What Can Be Relied On When Everything Changes

Dec 25, 2025 48m

This talk explores impermanence as an intimate fact of lived experience, in contrast to our desire for permanence and stability. Along with conditionality and no-self, impermanence is a core…

Freedom Within Limitations - Sesshin Day 3

Dec 11, 2025 42m

This talk was given on day 3 of a 7-day sesshin at the Boulder Zen Center. It continues an exploration of three modes of attention: focus, field, and full function. Attention is the most foundational…

Best of Zen Mind: Stepping Back (and Back In)

Nov 27, 2025 42m

While Zenki Roshi is teaching the Fall Practice Course 'Developing Embodiment' at the Boulder Zen Center, we are re-airing three dharma talks that address fundamental topics and practices related to…

Best of Zen Mind: No Inside, No Outside

Nov 13, 2025 44m

While Zenki Roshi is teaching the Fall Practice Course 'Developing Embodiment' at the Boulder Zen Center, we are re-airing three dharma talks that address fundamental topics and practices related to…

Best of Zen Mind: Pause for the Pause

Oct 30, 2025 38m

While Zenki Roshi is teaching the Fall Practice Course 'Developing Embodiment' at the Boulder Zen Center, we are re-airing three dharma talks that address fundamental topics and practices related to…

Embodied Presence – Why It Matters!

Oct 19, 2025 57m

This talk kicked off the new live Practice Course ‘Developing Embodiment’ that just began at the Boulder Zen Center. The talk first defines the ultimate fruition of the Zen path as ‘embodying…

Nothing Missing

Oct 02, 2025 45m

This talk was given as part of a One-Day Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center. It reflects on embodiment practice as the gate to the present and the present as the gate to our true nature. The talk…

Shot through with Space (Part 3)

Sep 18, 2025 58m

This talk continues and concludes the mini-series on exploring space and spaciousness. This time the emphasis is on mental space. While the two previous talks emphasized practices with visual…

Shot through with Space (Part 2)

Sep 04, 2025 52m

This talk continues the mini-series on exploring space and spaciousness. It presents a variety of practices with gaze, body, and breath that can help us verify in our own experience that the…

Shot through with Space (Part 1)

Aug 21, 2025 54m

This is the first talk in a mini-series on practicing with the experience of space and spaciousness. The exploration starts with a fundamental shift in view… from “space separates” to “space…

Breathing Through the Whole Body

Aug 08, 2025 52m

This talk was given as an opening talk to a workshop on “Breath Practice.” It explores breath as our most vital form of nourishment. Breath practice has two intertwined dimensions: supporting health…

Being Touched By Life

Jul 24, 2025 40m

This talk was given as part of a One-Day Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center. It reflects on moments when we are touched by life. Nothing special, just ordinary moments -- washing the dishes, looking…

The Art of Enough

Jul 10, 2025 45m

We human beings tend to generate stress—and sometimes even burnout— by perceiving situations and ourselves as not enough. This talk starts out with the question "When is there enough?" and tries on…

On Alienation and Intimacy

Jun 26, 2025 45m

This talk was given as part of a Weekend Sitting at the Boulder Zen Center. It examines the feeling of alienation that comes from the mental construction of a separate self with an internal and an…

The Wisdom and Compassion of Not-Knowing

Jun 12, 2025 41m

This talk was given at the Austin Zen Center. It addresses the twin Bodhisattva virtues of wisdom and compassion. These ideals can sound lofty, maybe even unattainable. However, if we understand them…

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