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(for technical reasons, there will be no sitting broadcast today) This is something I preach from time to time, but I thought it worth saying again. Perhaps it is good to shout it clearly. Namely, in Buddhism, we have a strange attitude toward life and the universe … I would not call us “theists“. And…

(BENDOWA XIX) Last time we saw how a moment of Zazen –is–Buddha sitting, makes all the world right, just the way everything should be.   But it is not so simple as just saying that, for it must also work the other way … and one must actually get free of body and mind, dropping judgments…

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 XVIII) In other words …     In a moment of sitting Zazen, you and all things of the universe are no less than the Buddha sitting Zazen under the Bodhi Tree, attaining realization and commencing to teach (the meaning of “turn the Dharma Wheel“), expounding and expressing the profound state of Prajna. (Prajna is…
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