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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 XXIII) One of the great Ancestors of Soto (Caodong) Zen in Song Dynasty China, Hongzhi Zhengjue, wrote this in his Mozhao Ming (Inscription on Silent Illumination) … All the myriad things in the universeemit radiance and speak the dharma [the Buddha’s teachings].They all attest to each otherand individually correspond in dialogue Uchiyama Roshi writes…

(BENDOWA XXII) In other words …  The grand chain reaction of Inter-being Inter-dependency Inter-support that is this world manifests … —not– by our thinking about it, nor by our analyzing it, nor by our having some small views or perspective about it all, nor by our doing some activity or practice in order to bring…

A simple daily plan for nurturing the wholesome seeds of our mind …   (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.  
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