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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…

… by dropping all need and effort to attain enlightenment … … thus, enlightenment immediately attained! It is often said that our Shikantaza way is about “not seeking“, being “goalless“, abandoning the need and search for “enlightenment” … It is also said that, in “just sitting,” we best drop all desire to be peaceful ……

(BENDOWA XXXIX) This passage may be a bit clearer if we think of the practice of Zazen as  … not really a means to obtain enlightenment … but a “dance of original enlightenment” … … a dance that both celebrates, and brings to life, the fact of enlightenment in our lives. We may be originally…

(BENDOWA XXXVIII) In other words … Someone asks Dogen … “Hey Dogen, if Zazen is a way for unenlightened folks to get enlightened … is there any reason for enlightened folks to continue Zazen after they get enlightened?” Dogen responds, “You still don’t get it, silly boy? Let me say it again … Zazen is…
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