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Today, some more to do in our “How To” Zazen … Life is a million things to do. These days, all of us are juggling so much … Is Buddhism a teaching of passivity? Must it mean withdrawal from the world? Not at all! “Just Sitting” Shikantaza is stillness … whether sitting or when moving.…

More in our series on “How To” Zazen … In “Just Sitting” Zen Practice, we learn to take life like the weather … … whatever comes, comes.   (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended)

Please join our weekly “Live from Treeleaf” Zazenkai … 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 and…

We continue our series on “How To” Zazen … … and how to handle thoughts that appear during Zazen. I often used the analogy of clouds (of thought) drifting in and out of a clear, blue spacious sky (a mind open and clear of thoughts). Our mind in Zazen may be compared to the sky…
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