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… life … death … … showing front, back … the falling maple leaf … (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended) To subscribe to “Treeleaf Zen” click here.

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XIV) In another great early work, Fukanzazengi, Dogen writes … Put aside the intellectual practice of investigating words and chasing phrases, and learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inward. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XIII) Like wild horses and crazy monkeys. I am going to spend a couple of days with this passage …  taming those horses, calming those monkeys … (You will hear and see our wild house cat, Tin Tin, scampering around the room during much of today’s sitting) ps-…

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…
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