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Please join our weekly “Live from Treeleaf” Zazenkai meditation … BUT DUE TO TECHNICAL REASONS, TODAY’S ZAZENKAI IS RECORDED … so,  ‘LIVED FROM TREELEAF’ … a ‘RE-SIT’ … FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE … We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart Sutra in ENGLISH (see below), then sit about 40…

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( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – III ) Doing things carefully … the Zen way … _____________________________ Next, the variousstewards consult in the store hall about what seasonings should be used on thefollowing day, what vegetables should be eaten, how the rice gruel should beprepared, and so on. The Rules of Purity for Chan…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – II ) Keeping it simple … _____________________________ When this mountain monk[I, Dôgen] was in Song China,on my days off I inquired of retired elderly monks who had held minor andimportant offices, and they shared something of their views with me. Theirexplanations are the bones and marrow bequeathed by…
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