{"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":"This Mind Here Now is Buddha","slug":"this-mind-here-now-is-buddha","published_at":"2026-04-16T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115/this-mind-here-now-is-buddha","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zen-mind-898115","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170403/episodes/19023367-this-mind-here-now-is-buddha.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170403/episodes/19023367-this-mind-here-now-is-buddha.mp3","summary":"This talk was offered on Day 3 of the Spring Sesshin at the Boulder Zen Center, continuing the investigation of mind begun the previous day (published two weeks ago). The inquiry turns to the koan exchange between Damei and Matsu: \"What is Buddha?\" – \"This very mind is Buddha.\" Dogen warns that students have misunderstood this teaching in two ways. The first error is to equate Buddha with the ordinary functioning of mind—thinking, feeling, perceiving—which leads to complacency: if I'm already...","meta_description":"This talk was offered on Day 3 of the Spring Sesshin at the Boulder Zen Center, continuing the investigation of mind begun the previous day (published two…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2783,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/zen-mind-898115/episodes/this-mind-here-now-is-buddha/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/this-mind-here-now-is-buddha.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}