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(BENDOWA XXX) The topic for today is whether it is okay to take a break from Zen Practice sometimes … … but before I get to that, I want to return briefly to something I was called on by a comment yesterday. When I said that our “Zen Practice is like putting down toys” ……

  I AM PRESENTING THIS TALK A SECOND TIME, AS WE HAD A FEW RECORDING ISSUES A FEW DAYS AGO … (BENDOWA XXIX) Uchiyama Roshi comments on this section: The meaning of the third question is: Okay. Zazen is good. I understand that it cannot be reached by ordinary thoughts. But it might be possible…

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 XXVIII) In other words … Someone asks … “Hey Dogen, your wild talk of “Zazen as the way of the Buddhas and Ancestors” is tough for ordinary folks to grasp. There are many schools of Buddhism which propose that we should attain enlightenment or salvation by doing something … studying the Sutras, chanting a…
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