Please join our weekly “Live from Treeleaf” Zazenkai meditation … Tonight is dedicated to John Daido Loori Roshi … a great teacher to so many, a wonderful heart, a root of the tree of Zen in the West … who left this visible world yesterday … We will start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XII ) Let’s talk about old, long dead guys. They are a tough act to follow. _____________________________ Withresolve and sincerity, one should aim to exceed the ancients in purity andsurpass the former worthies in attentiveness. The way to put that aspirationinto practice in one's own person is, for…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XI ) Someone in our Sangha made a special request for me to jump back a bit, to a couple of lines I had passed over.  He likes the quote … So, will do! Here it is, Fugen … (and I’ll try not to make a ‘pot head’…

This little funny going around the Zen-blogosphere reminded me that I should introduce our newest Zen teacher at Treeleaf …. Tin Tin Sensei (he even looks a little like the cat in the picture)  … Ya see … unlike you and me, cats don’t need to study and pursue “The Way” … they don’t even…

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