FOR TECHNICAL REASONS, TODAY’S ‘LIVE’ ZAZEN IS … PRE-RECORDED! 🙂 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…

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Holocaust Museum Shooting: Racism and Reaction(from The Washington Post) Police are confirming that the suspect in the shooting today outsidethe Holocaust Museum in Washington is identified as 88-year-old JamesW. von Brunn, who decries Jews, blacks on rambling, racist and bitterlyanti-Semitic website. (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 20 to…

(BENDOWA XXXIV) Buddhists may disagree on various interpretations of the fine points of Buddhist philosophy … … But when just sitting, in the perfect action of embodying enlightenment, there is nothing upon which to disagree … nor anyone to disagree. In a moment of Zazen, sitting as the Buddha sat, letting go of thoughts of…

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