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‘Zazen in a truck’. It should have been ‘sleeping in a truck’, but I didn’t fall asleep after all. Falling asleep during Zazen is no shame or waste of time (nothing about Zen Practice involves shame or any waste) … at least if just once in awhile. (Every time would be a big waste and…

. It’s traditional in Japan to have a Shinto Priest come out and ‘appease the spirits (Kami)’ when starting big construction like we are at Treeleaf. My wife insisted. . I don’t know so much about appeasing the spirits, but I do know about appeasing my wife. So, we had it done. You can see…

Today, I am joined for Zazen by my 14-year-old nephew. It is his first time for Zazen (I didn’t make him do it. He volunteered. Really.) I just told him that, for the time we are sitting, don’t think about school, his parents, his iPod, his Gameboy, comic books, cars, baseball and, of course, girls.…

I find the places for our sit-a-longs each day, mostly because there is an internet connection there (they take some hunting to find) or because it connects in some way to the theme of the sitting. But I don’t choose places because they are exciting or interesting. In fact, my point in sitting in different…
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