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

(BENDOWA XII) According to Master Dogen’s account of his time in China, one morning his teacher Ju-Ching found a monk dozing during Zazen. Dogen heard his teacher scold the sleeping monk, “The practice of zazen is the dropping away of body and mind. What do you expect to accomplish by dozing? When Dogen heard this,…

Just a simple celebration today of the coming of Spring. Don’t feel like talking much today … It’s spring! (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended) To subscribe to “Treeleaf Zen” click here.  

(BENDOWA XI) Master Dogen continues to tell us that “Zazen” ( that’s Zen meditation ) is all we need … enlightenment itself … And that means we don’t need to bother with all that other Buddhist stuff … like burning incense, ringing bells, bowing, chanting, worrying about the Precepts or even reading Buddhist books. All…
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