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Continuing our series on “How To” Zazen … In our Soto Zen perspective, Zazen is Enlightenment itself … … just crossing the legs, stretching the back, gazing at a wall, and all’s done! Like saying that merely running a race –is– the finish line crossed. In this race, there is nothing to gain or attain,…

We are so often chasing after things, rarely still … whether it is attainments, dreams and goals, fame and fortune and possessions, whatever we think will ‘finally‘ make us happy and content in life (once we get there, if we get there). It may be the same in our spiritual practices, if we are always…

Hi, Please join our NEW YEARS/JANUARY MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI, recorded in “real time” and available at the following link: ZAZENKAI Remember, when we drop all thought of ‘here’ ‘there’ ‘now’ and ‘then’ … we are sitting all together! Our Zazenkai consists of our chanting the ‘Heart Sutra‘ and the ‘Identity of Relative and Absolute (Sandokai)’…

Sitting Zazen all together online, and having a video ‘Zencast’, can present some technical conundrums sometimes. Zen teachers back in the 13th Century, for example, probably only had to face running out of ink for their writing brushes … while now we must ‘sit with’ the Koan of JAVA script and browser conflicts. But the…
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