Chobo-ji's Zen Podcast

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Oct. 8th, 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines if it is not the wind, flag or mind that is flapping, what is it? What does it mean to be born free as the wind blows?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during on the first day of Autumn Sesshin, 2017. This talk examines this matter of life and death from the perspective of both the relative and absolute.  Genjo left sesshin the following day to be with his mother in hospice.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Sept. 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines death and other kinds of departures. What is our face before our great-grandparents were born? And after we die?  Where do we go?  Where can we go?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the August, 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines how to move beyond the real difficulties and outrage of life in these times to the transcendent love and compassion so needed in this world of hurt. This teisho was given the day after Heather Heyer was run over and killed while joining a protest against white supremacists. Lingzhao was Layman Pang's daughter, and in this case speaks most directly to the the transcendent shining grasses of the ancient masters.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the July 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji.  This talk examines what we can know and what we can't.  This talk explores what we can learn from deep inquiry in the Zendo if we don't let our busy lives interfere with our meditation.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the six day of Summer Sesshin, 2017.  This talk examines Zen monastic training and what does it mean to be an unsui (ordained in the Zen tradition). The Teisho also examines our style of koan practice and how this form of training has the potential to open our heart-mind.  Finally this case examines the meaning of Dharma Transmission (Inka) in the Rinzai lineage and the courage it takes to live our Great Vow to care for all beings.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the June, 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines breaking through layers of expectations and attachments from and to parents, teachers, mentors and society.

A Dharma talk given at the occasion of Rinzan Pechovnik's Osho ceremony on May 27th, 2017 at No Rank Zendo in Portland, OR. Rinzan speaks to his own path of practice and how Zen Buddhist practice opens each of us to a spontaneous intuitive and caring response to the call of the world. 

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during Mother's Day, 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines Genjo's early history with his mother, Hakuin's One Hand Clapping, Asan's two-hand clap response, and the real business of this life and death journey.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the April 9, 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji. This talk examines the use of shouts and blows in the Rinzai tradition and how humility and maturity of a great master can surpass them. It also explores the necessity of communing and harmonizing with Mother Earth.

Genjo Osho gave this teisho on the sixth day of Spring Sesshin, 2017.  It examines "The Naga Princess's Enlightenment" as told in the Hidden Lamp.  This Teisho explores how Buddhist mythology is used in Zen training.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the March 12, 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji.  This talk examines the ordination of women in Buddhism and the courage and determination it takes to confront prejudice and injustice.  This talk also explores how to do intense meditation practice with both genders.

Genjo Osho gave this teisho on the last day of Feb. Odayaka Sesshin, 2017. It examines Case 19 of the Mumonkan. What words of Zen Master Nansen broke through Joshu's delusive mind? Nansen said, "How can there be right and wrong in the Tao?" What?  No right or wrong?  How can that be?  Please have a listen.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Feb., 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji.  This talk examines how investigating the absolute black void that holds the universe and is the universe has no gender, age, caste, or IQ.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Jan., 2017 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji.  This talk examines the our true nature and the absurdity of human prejudice about gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, skin color...

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the last day of Rohatsu, 2016  This case examines death poems, how to face death and why anyone would agree to be abbot of a Zen temple. What three ingredients are essential for Zen training?  Who is responsible when the student/teacher relationship falls apart?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Nov., 2016 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji.  This talk examines the recent election, Genjo's trip to India, and the dream of life and death.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Oct., 2016 half-day sit at Chobo-Ji.  This talk examines grief, ecstasy, impermanence, and enlightenment as contrasted with maturity.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the Sept. 11,  2016 mini-sesshin at Chobo-Ji.  It begins with a very telling story of Genjo's trip to NYC in late October of 2001. Iron Grindstone Liu was the principle Dharma Heir to Zen Master Guishan Lingyou (771–854)  (Jpn. Isan Reiyū).

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of August, 2016, Odayaka Sesshin at Chobo-Ji.  This talk examines what it is to be a positive bodhisattva in this life: offering love that is not dependent on happiness.