Chobo-Ji's Zen Podcast

Rinzai Zen Dharma Talks given at the Seattle Zen Temple Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji or other locations associated with Chobo-Ji.

Rinzan's Rohatsu 25' Teisho

Rinzan Pechovnick 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.

12-06
33:50

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?

12-05
21:07

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.

12-04
29:36

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.

12-03
23:08

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.

12-02
25:14

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.

12-01
22:51

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?

11-09
18:05

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).

10-12
24:11

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.

09-25
25:18

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?

09-24
29:29

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.

09-23
27:04

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.

09-22
22:44

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.

09-21
33:31

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.

09-20
26:43

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.

09-14
28:51

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.

08-17
24:27

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?

08-16
24:00

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.

08-15
35:37

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.

08-10
20:28

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.

08-03
28:40

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