{"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":"How Practice Takes Shape (The Role of Vow)","slug":"how-practice-takes-shape-the-role-of-vow","published_at":"2026-05-14T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115/how-practice-takes-shape-the-role-of-vow","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170403/episodes/19174232-how-practice-takes-shape-the-role-of-vow.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170403/episodes/19174232-how-practice-takes-shape-the-role-of-vow.mp3","summary":"This talk was given during a zazen intensive at the Boulder Zen Center. The talk holds a question often left unasked: what is the role of vow in Zen practice? It opens with a confession of skepticism. Vow can become superego, a new identity to monitor against. The talk works through this tension by tracing how way-seeking mind emerges from the friction of misrepresenting ourselves as substantial, separate selves within a reality that is undivided activity. Just sitting already contains the dy...","meta_description":"This talk was given during a zazen intensive at the Boulder Zen Center. The talk holds a question often left unasked: what is the role of vow in Zen pract…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3191,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/zen-mind-898115/episodes/how-practice-takes-shape-the-role-of-vow/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/how-practice-takes-shape-the-role-of-vow.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}