Chobo-Ji's Zen Podcast
Rinzai Zen Dharma Talks recorded at the Seattle Zen Temple Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji and other locations associated with Chobo-Ji. The podcast features teachings and lectures on Zen practice, meditation, and Buddhist philosophy given by Genjo Marinello, a Zen priest. Episodes likely cover mindfulness, koans, and everyday application of Zen principles.
Episodes
In This Body - Chapter 5
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Summer Odayaka Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how we are all like crying babies when we are stuck in our narrow idea of self.
Rinzairoku - Jishu Chapter 19.4
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the July 2026 Zazenkai held at No Rank Zendo in Portland. This talk explores the three realms of existence, and the truth that emancipation is realizing there is no need or way to escape them.
Rinzairoku - Jishu Chapters 19.2 & 19.3
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the July 2026 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores "What is this?" and "Who is asking?" It's important to rely on one's own investigation of these seminal questions.
Rinzairoku - Jishu Chapter 19.1.b
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the sixth day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how our language codes our perception of reality. Zen practice offers us a way to feel reality directly without so much coding.
Rinzairoku - Jishu Chapter 19.1a
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores reality without getting caught in names and concepts. And explores the fact that no information is lost when we die.
Sozen Nagasawa - Chapter 4
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores first impressions of deep nature.
Zen Master Up a Tree
Anne Sendo Osho gave this Dharma Talk during the third day of Summer Sesshin 2026 at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the necessity of being mindful and transcending fear of our own death.
Rinzairoku - Jishu Chapter 18b
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how you don't have to teach a seed to practice or grow. We are all seedlings of Mind and at sesshin we are present to our growth.
Mu Summer 2026
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to see through the eyes of Masters of the past by learning how to find our own inner sage through deep meditation.
Rinzairoku - Jishu Chapter 18a
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the June 2026, Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how metaphors point to what can't be said, but can be felt. It also explores how in Zen practice there is nothing to strive for or attain.
Rinzairoku - Jishu Chapter 17
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during May, 2026, Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores our ability to meet all comers and circumstances when we have faith in our own deep nature.
Jishu - Chapter 16 - Rinzairoku
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the April 12 2026, Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk delves into the importance of venturing into the profound depths of existence and acquiring the skills to become proficient swimmers.
Jishu - Chapter 15 - Rinzairoku
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the sixth day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance of dropping our dependance on breakthroughs, others, and our own instincts of survival, in order to proceed with deep practice.
The True Person
Seifu Sigh-Molares Osho gave this Teisho on the fifth day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores form and formlessness as it relates to our deep nature which is unattached to rank, position, or sense of separate self.
Sozen Nagasawa - Chapter 3
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the middle day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance in Zen training of having a breakthrough into our deep nature as the foundation for further practice.
Jishu - Chapter 14 - Rinzairoku
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what we call Buddha and what we call the Devil, what we call purity and what we call defilement. These aspects are a part of one continuum of the fluxuating universal field of Heart-Mind.
Jishu Chapter 13
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the difference between effort and striving. Striving creates interference; without effort no growth is possible. Zazen requires effort.
Ground of Being
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how Zen practice helps us root in the infinite intimate ground of being to live through our trials and tribulations with more equanimity.
Jishu Chapter 12
Genjo presented this Teisho during a March, Sunday night Dharma Dialogue at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores where does true insight come from, certainly not from dogma, belief, or teachers.
Jishu Chapter 11
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the Feb. 8 2026, Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores who is listening to this discourse, and what interferes with our confidence and faith in our own experience.
Jishu Chapter 10
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the final day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the different windows of enlightenment and how not to get stuck in one view or another.
Jodo Chapter 9
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the phases of Zen discourse, and how the Dharma is the puppet master.
Emptiness - No Holiness
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to find perfect freedom in the midst of adversity or prosperity.
Jodo Chapter 8
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the Jan. 11, 2026, Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the challenge of how to approach someone not on the Way with loving kindness, while not condoning, ignoring, or supporting harmful behavior.
Jodo chapter 7
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the seventh day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines what we need when we return to daily life after a weeklong sesshin.
Rinzan's Rohatsu 25' Teisho
Rinzan Pechovnik Osho gave this Teisho on the sixth day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines Hekiganroku, Case 91, Enkan and the Rhinoceros Fan.
Jodo chapter 6
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the fifth day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines the fact that we are all living on the knife edge of life and death. How do we meet our mortality like we are drowned in a deep spring?
Sendo Explores Ling's Question
Anne Sendo Howels Osho gave this Dharma Talk during the middle day of Rohatsu Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk, based "Ling's Question" in The Hidden Lamp, explores the necessity of addressing the world's grievous suffering and the calamities that we bring upon ourselves.
Jodo Chapter 5
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the third day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines our collective core delusion and the importance of coming down from our mountain top view of reality.
Jodo Chapter 4
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the second day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines how to make your own assessments without judgement, and what to prioritize during zazen - slow breathing and our Great Vow.
Make A Lap
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the first day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines how to make a lap for our crazy, convoluted, karmic core and ultimately the whole universe.
Jodo Chapter 3
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Nov. 9, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores who is the true person underneath all our personalities, roles, ranks, and positions. Who is the naked you?
Jodo Chapter 2
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Oct. 12, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how insights arise from the true eye of compassion and explores Genjo's departure from the American Zen Teachers Association (AZTA).
Jodo Chapter 1
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the sixth day of Autumn Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines how to develop faith in your own deep nature by looking at Zen Master Rinzai's approach.
Hekiganroku - Case 100
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the fifth day of Autumn Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. What are two very sharp and a multi-generational colonies of branching organisms?
In This Body - Case 2
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the middle day of Autumn Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. Impermanence is inescapable, sesshin weakens our ego defenses, allowing us to see past our artificial barriers between self and other, life and death.
Sitting Long and Getting Tired
Gendo Testa Osho gave this Dharma Talk during on the third day of Autumn Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji. Our deep practice requires sitting long and getting tired, then it becomes easier to sense our deep nature.
Hekiganroku - Case 99
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Autumn Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores one way to approach being awake without attachment to identity.
Awake Without Idenity
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Autumn Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the real possibility of being awake without any attachment to a separate sense of self.
Hekiganroku - Case 98
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the Sept. 14, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to make errors into assets, and the importance of not clinging to axioms.
Hekiganroku - Case 97
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during on the final day of Summer Odayaka, Aug. 17 2025. This talk explores our personal and collective karmic baggage and what we can do to relinquish some of it.
Hekiganroku - Case 96
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during on the second day of Summer Odayaka, Aug. 16, 2025. This talk explores our ego, sub-personalities and the collective unconscious full of gods, archetypes and totems. Are these real or fundamentally empty?
Summer Odayaka Day 1
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during on the first day of Summer Odayaka, Aug. 15, 2025. This talk explores the meaning of Emptiness, No Holiness, No Knowing. We don't know much, but we do know we are a part of one multidimensional fabric.
Hekiganroku - Case 95
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the Aug. 10, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the language of the Buddha and sages. Just remember to be deaf, blind and a fool, who knows nothing, but is always kind and helpful.
Hekiganroku - Case 94
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the Aug. 3, 2025 Zazenkai held at No Rank Zendo in Portland. This talk investigates how to explore the inconceivable essence of ourselves and the universe via the experience of Great Death.
Hekiganroku - Case 93
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the July 13, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the difference between mastery and imitation. "Whether singing or dancing we are the voice of the Dharma." - Hakuin
Hekiganroku - Case 92
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the sixth day of Summer Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the truth that the Dharma can't be taught but there are many paths to explore and investigate this multidimensional reality.
Alive or Dead?
Seifu Singh-Molares Osho gave this Dharma Talk during the fifth day of Summer Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the passing of Seifu's mother into the Vast Void and where do we find all those who have passed this life.
In This Body - Case 1
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Summer Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how the Great Death is just the beginning of a Great Life.
Hekiganroku_ I Would Ask You To Say It
In this Teisho, given on June 23rd, 2025, at Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji's Summer Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 70 of the Hekiganroku: Isan's, "I Would Ask You To Say It." How do we find harmony in a world full of dischord? How does Zen training help?
Hekiganroku - Case 91
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Summer Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the relative and transcendent ways to respond to an inquiry.
Spiritual Root
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Summer Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the root of all spiritual practice and how accessing this root is essential to navigating pain and suffering.
Hekiganroku - Case 90
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the June 8, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the essence of Prajna.
Hekiganroku - Case 89
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the May 4, 2025 Zazenkai, held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how we are all the very hands and eyes of the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
Hekiganroku - Case 88
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during April Zazenkai, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what it is to really realize our seamlessness with the intimate infinite.
Four Noble Truths
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Dharma Talk Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. This talk explores The Four Noble Truths and offers a deep dive into the Noble Eight-Fold Path.
Hekiganroku - Case 87
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the sixth day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how too much medicine becomes poisonous, and how to transcend both medicines and poisons.
Hekiganroku - Case 86
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what we see when we look in the mirror collectively and personally.
LinJi Meets Old Woman
Anne Sendo Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance of recognizing our own inner sage.
Hekiganroku - Case 85
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the qualities one should find in a senior Zen monk and the fact that none of us will always be in the groove of excellence.
Hekiganroku - Case 84
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to find the path to the "One and Only" in the midst of our collective suffering.
Reality Prior to Heaven and Earth
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores THIS reality prior to heaven and earth; it has no form, let alone a name.
Hekiganroku - Case 83
Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the March 9, 2025 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk delves into a crucial path that can assist us in transcending our troubled selves and fostering a profound connection with the essence of our being.
Hekiganroku - Case 82
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Feb. 9, 2025 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores impermanence and the indestructible Dharma body, the reality before and beneath space and time, creation and destruction.
Hekiganroku - Case 81
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the final day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the difference between breakthroughs and maturity.
Hekiganroku - Case 80
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how we can ride the rough waters we are facing, like a ball floating on rapids.
No Knowing
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores: "Who are we really?"
Hekiganroku - Case 79
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Jan. 12, 2025 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to care for different aspects of ourselves, so that our inner sage has a better chance of being heard.
Hekiganroku - Case 78
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the seventh day of Rohatsu 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores our need to breakthrough repeatedly to gain confidence it what is real and transcendent.
Hekiganroku - Case 77
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Rohatsu 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores direct demonstrations of the transcendent (combination of ordinary and absolute perspectives).
Patacara - Rohatsu 2024
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Rohatsu 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how we can't avoid tears and loss, and how to face impermanence.
Hekiganroku - Case 76
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Rohatsu 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how many questions in Zen have a double meaning, and how we are all worthy to be cared for, even if we are blind in one way another.
Ummon's _Particle After Particle Samadhi
Teisho, given on December 2, 2024, the second full day of Chobo-ji's Rohatsu Sesshin, by Rinzan Osho. When we see beyond concepts, we can be open, free and responsive to the great reality, a place where words meet words and spirit meets spirit.
Who Are We Really?
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2024, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the kanji Mu (No, Not, Nothing), in the context of who are we really?
Hekiganroku - Case 75
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Nov. 10, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to cross swords in Zen, and thoughts about how to investigate and respond to election results.
Hekiganroku - Case 74
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Oct.20, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to delightfully meet every person as a flowering bodhisattva.
Case 19 Autumn 2024
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the final day of Autumn Sesshin, 2024, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the pinnacle of Zen practice, how to bring our depth into daily life.
Hekiganroku - Case 72
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Autumn 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to "see" beyond three dimensions.
Middle Day Teisho Autumn Sesshin 24
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Autumn 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what is the sap of the tree of Dharma.
Hekiganroku - Case 71
Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Autumn 2024 Sesshin at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how do we say what cannot be said and how to draw on our stem or deep self-nature.
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