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Tomorrow, our son Leon has a little graduation ceremony from Kindergarten, and he’s about to start 1st grade. It is a day of joy, also mixed with a touch of sadness at passing time. How should we approach such moments in our lives from a Buddhist perspective? Well, first we should know that even happiness…

In this section of Bendowa, Master Dogen recounts the tale of Zen Buddhism’s coming from India to China … Much of the story, we now know, is fictional … centered on historical characters who (if they lived at all) are composites of real persons remade via the creative imaginations of later writers.  But that does…

.One might think that, in attaining the realization that he attained in China, Master Dogen would drop all thought of ambition, goals, something he needed to achieve in life. However, as the below section of Bendowa shows, he sure came back to Japan with some great ambitions to teach and spread the Dharma.  How can…

Hi, Please join our MARCH MONTHLY 4-hour ‘Live from Treeleaf’ 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…
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