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SORRY, MY COLD HAS COME BACK HARD SUDDENLY. PLEASE KNOW THAT I AM SITTING FROM MY SICKBED THIS EVENING. HOPE TO BE BACK TOMORROW WITH SOMETHING ON THE HEART SUTRA! ZZZZZzzzzz (zazen and sleeping) Master Dogen wrote this about his teacher, Master Nyojo’s, attitude toward sleep … When staying at Tendo Monastery in China, while…

I am feeling a bit under the weather today, so it is a good time to talk about Zazen while sick … When you cough, just cough. Cough as the only cough in that moment, a perfect cough … cough cough cough. Vomit vomit vomit. It is the whole universe vomiting in that instant. If…

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,…

Continuing our topic from yesterday … nothing happens next in Shikantaza,and thus everything happens. nothing is sought in Shikantaza,and thus everything is attained. No/ path/, no/ wis/dom/ and/ no/ gain/. No/ gain/ – thus/ Bod/dhi/satt/vas/ live/ this/ Praj/na/ Pa/ra/mi/ta/With/ no/ hin/drance/ of/ mind/ – No/ hin/drance/ there/fore/ no/ fear/.NOTE: THE SIGNAL CUT DURING THE SITTING,SO…
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