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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Quiet your thoughts, take a deep breath, and experience pure mindfulness & relaxation with A Zen Mind Guided Meditations & Visualizations 🤍 Journey within to connect with your highest potential 💫 Let go of the thoughts or emotions that no longer serve you, and welcome healing, inner peace, wisdom, and harmony within🕊️ ✨ New meditations uploaded every Wednesday/Thursday 💗 With Love & Light, xo Jo More from A Zen Mind ✨ www.azenmindpodcast.com 🌼Follow me on Instagram 🕉️ Get More Meditations Ea ...
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The Ordinary Mind Zen School Sydney podcast consists of Dharma talks given by Geoff Dawson.
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This talk asks what it means to be identified with thoughts, opinions, emotions, personal characteristics, roles, and positions. And then, what it means to dis-identify from those aspects. It explores Dogen's practice instruction "to take the backward step that turns the light around and inward." Dogen's stepping back is to first discover and then …
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Just Be: Guided Meditation for Stillness, Peace, & Presence
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This meditation is a gentle invitation to simply be. In a world where we are conditioned to always be doing—whether it's thinking, planning, reminiscing, or preparing—our minds are constantly pulled in a thousand directions. But when was the last time you allowed yourself to pause? To sit in stillness, connect with your breath, let your body relax,…
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Being grateful for everything that comes our way
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Bearing Witness by Ordinary Mind Zen SchoolDe către Ordinary Mind Zen School
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The Storytelling Mind by Ordinary Mind Zen SchoolDe către Ordinary Mind Zen School
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10-Minute Self Check-In Guided Meditation - How Am I?
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We so often find ourselves asking others, "How are you?"—a common gesture of care and connection. Yet, how often do we pause to ask ourselves the same question? This 10-minute meditation is an opportunity to turn inward and check in with yourself. To gently ask, "How am I doing? How am I feeling? What do I need?" and to really listen to the answer.…
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Transforming Habits and the Rewards of Open Awareness
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This talk is plucked from the middle of the 6-week Practice Course 'Transforming Habits' which just concluded at the Boulder Zen Center. The talk provides a summary of some of the ground that has been covered during the course up until this point: the nature and purpose of habits; the structure of habits – cue, craving, behavior, reward; how habits…
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Unconditional Self Love, Acceptance, & Assurance: Guided Meditation
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This meditation focuses on cultivating unconditional, unwavering self-love and acceptance. It goes far beyond the external, encouraging a shift in perspective on what unconditional self-love truly means. In this session, we’ll nurture gratitude for different parts of our being, while a short visualization reminds us that there’s no one to compare o…
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The Ten Zen Precepts. Guidelines for Cultivating Moral Intelligence
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Connect With Your Higher Self & Step Into Your Power: Guided Meditation
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This meditation invites you to connect deeply with your Higher Self - the version of you that has achieved all your dreams, and embodies your fullest potential. Through this alignment, you’ll tap into the frequency of your desires, manifesting a reality that resonates with your true essence. Encouraging yourself to let go of anything that no longer…
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Healing Sleep Affirmations for Deep Rest, Inner Peace & Renewal
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This guided meditation has been created to help you sink into a deep restorative sleep. This meditation begins with a deep breathing exercise, easing you into a state of relaxation. As you drift deeper, gentle affirmations will guide you into a restful, restorative sleep. Designed to play softly as you fall asleep and beyond, these affirmations wor…
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Welcoming Beginner's Mind–A Conversation with Gaylon Ferguson
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This episode is a conversation with meditation teacher and author Gaylon Ferguson about his new book "Welcoming Beginner's Mind." The conversation touches on the main themes of the book and their importance in our practice and everyday life such as welcoming experience just as it is, spaciousness, control and grasping, stages of practice, and what …
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Heart of Gratitude: Guided Meditation for Love, Peace, & Gratitude
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Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can offer ourselves. It reminds us of the blessings present in our lives; both big and small, aligning us with even more abundance. This meditation is designed to offer you space to cultivate deep gratitude, love, and appreciation for the immeasurable aspects of your beautiful life. Take this time to reflec…
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Sesshin Day 5 - Core Beliefs by Ordinary Mind Zen SchoolDe către Ordinary Mind Zen School
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Expressing Buddha Mind through the Precepts
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This talk was given in preparation for this year’s Lay Initiation Ceremony (Jukai). It explores the ethical dimension of Zen practice as expressed in the Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts. On the one hand, the precepts don’t appear to be different from other religious moral codes. They formulate common sense behavioral guidelines. On the other hand, the…
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Sesshin Day 4 - The Fully Enlightened Person Falls down a Well
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Declutter Your Mind: Morning Meditation for Focus & Clarity
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This meditation is the perfect way to welcome in a new day, and was created to help you declutter your mind- letting go of thoughts and feelings that no longer serve you, and creating space for divine, intentional energy to flourish. This meditation offers you the space to turn inward, and consciously create your reality as you step into this new d…
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Sesshin Day 3 - Coming to our Senses
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Sesshin Day 2 - Judgement and Assessment
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Sesshin Day 1 - Birth, Death and the Space Inbetween
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Comfort & Calm: Guided Meditation for Nervous System Reset (Deep Body & Mind Relaxation)
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This meditation was created for you to access deep, blissful relaxation, for both your body and mind, helping you to reset your nervous system, and access a soothing state of inner peace & calm. Utilizing Ujjayi Breath—a common technique used in meditation—you’ll be gently guided into a blissful state of inner awareness and calm. With a slow & inte…
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Clarifying the confusion of thinking and experience
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The Craft of Habit Transformation
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This talk was given to kick off this year's fall course on 'Transforming Habits.' It considers Ken Wilber's distinction between 'waking up' and 'growing up.' It then asks how being intimate with the field of mind (open awareness) can be used to facilitate the transformation of unwholesome habits, which is essential for the process of growing up. In…
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Free Your Mind | Releasing Negativity and Finding Balance - Guided Meditation
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During this meditation, you'll be gently led through a process of releasing negativity and restoring balance within. Whether you're carrying stress, frustration, or feelings of overwhelm, this meditation was created to help you let go of the heaviness and reconnect with your inner calm. During this time, you'll learn to release negative energy and …
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Bearing Witness and Stopping Harm
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The Middle Way and Creative Tension
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This talk was given as part of a One-Day Intensive at Boulder Zen Center's new Mountain Zendo. It takes the following quote from Suzuki Roshi as its jumping-off point: "When you're sitting in the middle of your own problem, what is more real: your problem or you yourself? That you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact." Usually, the contents of…
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10 Minute Meditation for Stress, Anxiety, or Worry
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This 10-minute meditation offers the perfect break for those moments when stress or anxiety begins to creep in. These feelings are natural but often signal that you've drifted away from the present moment—worrying about what’s ahead or dwelling on what’s already past. This meditation gently guides you back to your center, grounding you in the here …
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Relax, You Are Safe | Guided Meditation for Inner Security & Peace
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This guided meditation is designed to help cultivate a deep, unwavering sense of peace and security from within. By creating safety internally, it becomes easier to remain unphased by external events and access the reservoir of serenity already inside. This meditation is perfect for moments of uncertainty, anxiety, stress, or when you simply need a…
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Attention, Openness, and Pace in Daily Life
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This talk was given as part of a Weekend Sitting. It explores the question of how we enact practice-enlightenment (Dogen's concept) in our daily activities. It talks about the importance of pace for attuning to the field of undivided activity and specifies two requirements: (1) letting go of resistance or being truly open and (2) a change in worldv…
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Discover Your Authentic Self | Guided Visualization
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This guided visualization takes you on a journey to discover and reconnect with your most true, authentic self. This meditation focuses on removing the layers of identities that others, and our own selves have places upon us, and returning back to our absolute authentic self. Fostering a sense of unwavering love, trust, and honor for our true inner…
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Morning Light Bath - Guided Morning Meditation
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This morning meditation is a gentle and uplifting way to begin your day, filling your entire being with radiant, nurturing light. By focusing on cultivating positivity, love, and light within yourself, this meditation sets the tone for a day where your experiences reflect the warmth and positivity you've cultivated within. With love, Jo ✨www.azenmi…
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Attention to Attention (Part 2)
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This talk continues to explore bringing attention to how attention functions in our lives. The distinction between focused consciousness (contents of mind) and nonfocused awareness (field of mind) is discussed as two different kinds of concentration. Learning to rest in and trust this nonconscious field, which is marked by interdependence and imper…
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Heal as You Sleep - Guided Meditation for Deep Sleep
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This guided meditation is perfect for winding down at the end of your day. As you prepare to drift into a deep, restorative sleep, you'll be soothed by slow, healing affirmations that gently guide you into a state of calm—a space where you can fully release the day's stress and turn inward. As you sleep, these affirmations will quietly work to rest…
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Being just this moment compassions way
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Detachment | Let Them, Let It - Guided Meditation
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This meditation is centered on the art of detachment—releasing your hold on people, situations, or outcomes that you may be clinging to too tightly. Attachment often fuels anxiety and a sense of inadequacy, but by consciously turning inward, we can reconnect with our inherent worth and completeness. Through this practice, you'll be guided back to t…
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Each moment life as it is, the only teacher
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Attention to Attention (Part 1)
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Attention is our most precious resource. Where our attention goes, our life goes. The cultivation of attention is at the center of Zen practice. This talk points out that this cultivation is extra challenging under the conditions of what social scientists and critics have come to call the ‘attention economy’ and ‘surveillance capitalism.’ We’re not…
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Reclaim Your Energy & Call Back What is Yours
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This meditation focuses on the journey inward to reclaim the energy we have scattered or given away to people, places, and past experiences. During this time, you will be guided into gently and compassionately drawing your focus back to yourself - bringing your energy home to the center of your being. This meditation will help you release distracti…
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Holding to Self Centred Thoughts exactly the dream
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Release & Receive | Let Go & Create Space Within - Guided Meditation
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This meditation is a journey into the art of letting go, and the beauty of welcoming in new opportunities & receiving all that life has to offer. Releasing what no longer serves you and creating space for new blessings to pour in. This meditation focuses on the balance between releasing blockages and limiting beliefs, and creating the divine space …
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Caught in the Self Centred Dream
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The Banging Door by Ordinary Mind Zen SchoolDe către Ordinary Mind Zen School
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This talk is about habit change from a Buddhist perspective. In one sense, it is a preview of BZC‘s upcoming Practice Course “Transforming Habits” (Oct 4-Nov 9, 2024). However, it also stands on its own. It explores what happens when we bring the question “What would a Buddha do?” to every moment in which we feel a misalignment between our habituat…
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