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. This week (actually, the holiday is in both July and August) is the major Japanese Buddhist holiday of Obon … a time for remembering the deceased and our ancestors … Here is the description by the Soto Zen headquarters in Japan The memorial services held at Obon have two meanings. One is tohonor the…

No video today, but an ANNOUNCEMENT of our upcoming, “fully online” 100 day ‘ANGO’ … as well as Precepts study and Rakusu sewing in preparation for our next ‘JUKAI’ (Undertaking the Precepts Ceremony, scheduled for January 2010) … both resources we wish to make available through Treeleaf Sangha to those in the Zen Community who…

. Well, the typhoon passed, just a glance and a lot of rain here. Also, yesterday’s earthquakes did no more than rattle the roof a bit. All is still, peaceful and the sky is blue once again! I like sunny days. But ya know, the true worth of this Practice is tasted on the stormy…

There’s a typhoon heading toward where we are in Eastern Japan tonight, and it is interfering with the internet … so no video today … However, please sit with me in the coming storm. Hopefully, in this practice, we learn to find the stillness even in the howling wind … the eye of the storm.…
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