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Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the October 2026 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what is needed for new revelations, insights and clarity. 

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the sixth day of Autumn Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the robes we all wear and who is beneath them all.

Seifu Singh-Molares Osho gave this Dharma Talk during the fifth day of Autumn Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores our interior subtle profound voice without rank that provides us with deep insights.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Autumn Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the core of our practice: deep samadhi which leads to breakthroughs, insights, perspective, and more consistent caring heart-mind.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Autumn Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores Rinzai's perspective on the course of spiritual development. How do we arrive at sufficient maturity to not depend on words or letters?

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Autumn Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how not be dependent on dogma, phrases or people, and to remember that our practice only begins with zazen.

Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the September 2026 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the three layers of self we must learn to transcend in order to have a more consistent open heart in troubled times.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Summer Odayaka Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how we are all like crying babies when we are stuck in our narrow idea of self.

Seifu Singh-Molares Osho presented this Dharma Talk during the Aug. 2026 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how and why people who have transcended rank, post and position live the way they do.

Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the July 2026 Zazenkai held at No Rank Zendo in Portland. This talk explores the three realms of existence, and the truth that emancipation is realizing there is no need or way to escape them.

Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the July 2026 Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores "What is this?" and "Who is asking?" It's important to rely on one's own investigation of these seminal questions.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the sixth day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how our language codes our perception of reality.  Zen practice offers us a way to feel reality directly without so much coding.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the fifth day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores reality without getting caught in names and concepts. And explores the fact that no information is lost when we die.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores first impressions of deep nature.

Anne Sendo Osho gave this Dharma Talk during the third day of Summer Sesshin 2026 at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the necessity of being mindful and transcending fear of our own death.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how you don't have to teach a seed to practice or grow.  We are all seedlings of Mind and at sesshin we are present to our growth.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Summer Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to see through the eyes of Masters of the past by learning how to find our own inner sage through deep meditation. 

Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the June 2026, Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how metaphors point to what can't be said, but can be felt. It also explores how in Zen practice there is nothing to strive for or attain.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during May, 2026, Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores our ability to meet all comers and circumstances when we have faith in our own deep nature.

Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the April 12 2026, Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk delves into the importance of venturing into the profound depths of existence and acquiring the skills to become proficient swimmers. 

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the sixth day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance of dropping our dependance on breakthroughs, others, and our own instincts of survival, in order to proceed with deep practice.

Seifu Sigh-Molares Osho gave this Teisho on the fifth day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores form and formlessness as it relates to our deep nature which is unattached to rank, position, or sense of separate self.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the middle day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance in Zen training of having a breakthrough into our deep nature as the foundation for further practice.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores what we call Buddha and what we call the Devil, what we call purity and what we call defilement. These aspects are a part of one continuum of the fluxuating universal field of Heart-Mind.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the difference between effort and striving. Striving creates interference; without effort no growth is possible. Zazen requires effort.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Spring Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how Zen practice helps us root in the infinite intimate ground of being to live through our trials and tribulations with more equanimity.

Genjo  presented this Teisho during a March, Sunday night Dharma Dialogue at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores where does true insight come from, certainly not from dogma, belief, or teachers.

Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the Feb. 8 2026, Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores who is listening to this discourse, and what interferes with our confidence and faith in our own experience.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the final day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the different windows of enlightenment and how not to get stuck in one view or another.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the second day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the phases of Zen discourse, and how the Dharma is the puppet master. 

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the first day of Winter Odayaka Sesshin, 2026, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores how to find perfect freedom in the midst of adversity or prosperity.

Genjo Marinello Osho presented this Teisho during the Jan. 11, 2026, Zazenkai held at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the challenge of how to approach someone not on the Way with loving kindness, while not condoning, ignoring, or supporting harmful behavior.

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho on the seventh day of Rohatsu Sesshin, 2025 at Chobo-Ji.  This talk examines what we need when we return to daily life after a weeklong sesshin.

Rinzan Pechovnik 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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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).

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?