{"podcast":{"title":"Zen Mind","slug":"zen-mind-898115","podcast_index_feed_id":898115,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2170403.rss","website_url":"https://www.boulderzen.org","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/pnft2x6hy2swrsyyp4mjydwonfak?.jpg","author":"Zenki Christian Dillo","episode_count":158,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T20:21:05.206015+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115"},"episode":{"title":"Completing the Past in the Present","slug":"completing-the-past-in-the-present","published_at":"2026-03-05T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115/completing-the-past-in-the-present","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170403/episodes/18785377-completing-the-past-in-the-present.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170403/episodes/18785377-completing-the-past-in-the-present.mp3","summary":"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, justification, and attempts to reinterpret difficult experiences—often in the service of protecting an image of who we are. In a psychological approach, we might be guided to explain and rearrange our story in healthier ways. In meditation practice, however, when the past resurfaces, it becomes an opportunity ...","meta_description":"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 beco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2869,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/zen-mind-898115/episodes/completing-the-past-in-the-present/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115/completing-the-past-in-the-present.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}