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Today, I offer a film review of ‘Into Great Silence‘ (2006): Synopsis: Nestled deep in the French Alps, the Grande Chartreuse is considered one of the world’s most ascetic monasteries. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back…

Welcome to our Saturday “Live from Treeleaf” Zazen, We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart Sutra in ENGLISH, then sit about 40 minutes of Zazen, then 10 minutes of Kinhin, closing with the chant of the “Verse of Atonement” and “Four Vows”. Please join in, one and all. Gassho,…

We examined some more ‘BIG’ questions that a nice fellow asked … Does life have a purpose?Is some Divine Plan unfolding?Why are we born? Really ‘BIG’ questions! Please have a look here for my response … RIGHT HERE But I thought I might ask another teacher today to help me out with these hard questions…

I am going to start a new series here and on the Forum, because someone wrote me a list of ‘BIG’ questions that is so long, wonderful and thoughtful … well, I thought I would try to respond to each question one by one, as I can. So, here is the first: QUESTION 1: “Does…
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