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(BENDOWA XLI) Today, a message for so-called “armchair Buddhists” … hesitant to get their feet wet … _____________________________ Questions Eight and Nine ... [Someone]asks, "The masters who spread the teachings through our country in previous ageshad all entered Tang Chinaand received the transmission of Dharma. Why, at that time, did they neglect thisprinciple [that practice-enlightenment…

Continuing with Master Dogen’s Bendowa … (BENDOWA XL) So, let’s say “enlightenment” is like baseball … Dogen went around visiting a lot of baseball stadiums, meeting the players and coaches … and here is what he learned about the playing of baseball: Says Dogen, if you want to make baseball baseball … ya don’t just…

. I am happy to annouce a new weekly feature on the ‘sit-a-long’ … “MONDAYS with TAIGU” … a talk each Monday by Rev. Taigu Turlur, teacher at the Treeleaf Sangha … Welcome Taigu! Rev. Pierre Taigu Turlur (also know as “Kuma san”, meaning “big stupid bear“, though many prefer “cuddly bear“) was born in…

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…
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