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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 5 minutes or so of Kinhin, closing with the chants of the “Verse of Atonement” and “Four Vows“.Please join…

Construction has begun on converting an old wooden building at Treeleaf in Tsukuba into a hall for sitting Zazen. I cannot post a sitting today, so offer this short tribute to the carpenter (Mr. Aita) and architect (Mr. Ushioda), good friends, who have been working on the place each day. They also need to do…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XIX) …. all things intra-penetrating  …  We receive aid and support from others, we give to others, we bow in gratitude. _____________________________ When a patron comesinto the monastery and donates money to hold a feast, the various stewardsshould all be consulted; this is the precedent established in monasteries…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XVIII) The ordinary is the most wondrous, all things intra-penetrating yet just as they are … Dosho Port (on his blog, wild fox zen) has a wonderful rephrase of the reference to Luling rice … A monk asked, what is the ultimate meaning of the buddhadharma? The master…
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