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Welcome to our Saturday “Live from Treeleaf” Zazen FROM SAIGON! Unfortunately, the signal cut after but a few minutes … In fact, during this week, I will be visiting some Zen monasteries (due at one at 4AM tomorrow morning for a dawn sitting!!!), and traveling in the countryside … so the internet will be sporadic…

Off to catch a plane to Vietnam in a few hours … Tomorrow we will try for our monthly Zazenkai, but all week the internet will be sporadic. I will be sitting in a couple of monasteries, pretty cut off too … … but know that I am still “sitting-a-long” each day, even then ……

Perhaps the questions I am asked most often have to do with pain during sitting … Over at the forum, we have had some great discussions on painful Zazen, and many valuable tips and comments. If you are regularly experiencing pain and discomfort during your Zazen, please have a look … Tips for Painful Sitting…

Continuing with our series on ‘anywhere, any time’ Zazen … today, we sit on a bicycle. Bike riding is a way of physical balance, just as Zazen is balance in body-mind. Sometimes, on life’s bumpy road, we may lose that balance … but do we know how to ‘get back on the bike’ quickly? (lost…
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