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.Zazen is perfect enlightenment, the Buddha’s enlightenment. Just sitting, in the universe itself … legs crossed and spine straight … untouched by restrictions, hindrances, obstructions or distractions … balance of body-mind … no ‘you’ to resist the world, no ‘world’ to be resisted … you are experiencing the Buddha’s enlightenment … … just the Buddha…

.Like fine Japanese carpentry, Zazen is a learnable skill of body-mind. It is mastered through years of observing and practice. But unlike many skills we have a desire to master, mastery of this skill comes by radically dropping all goals of mastery … including dropping the goal to master the dropping of goals. Learning this…

.They say, “Practice makes Perfect”. But, in our Zen philosophy, we are already “Perfect”. So why bother to practice? Our Way is the Way of Non-Seeking, Non-Attaining, Goallessness. But, if so, what are we seeking, what goal are we trying diligently to attain? Not seeking is not the same as Non-Seeking, not attaining is not…

. Our first sitting from the Treeleaf Zendo … the one made of wood and dirt. Of course, each sitting will be our first sitting too. What is called sitting-Zen is not learning Zen meditation. It is just a peaceful and effortless gate to reality. It is practice-and-experience which perfectly realizes the Buddha’s enlightenment. The…
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