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Please join our weekly “Live from Treeleaf” Zazenkai meditation … Though our chanting will be a bit quiet tonight, as we have children visiting and trying to sleep near where we sit Zazen!  🙂 We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart Sutra in ENGLISH (see below), then sit about…

. Our series on “Zazen in the Hospital” continues with today’s adventure in my “soon turning 50” routine medical check up … the dreaded: COLONOSCOPY … (A little more dreaded here in Japan, where no anesthesia is used and the patient is wide awake the whole time. Talk about an “Inner Enlightenment”!) A little known…

Ten Pure Virtues or “Perfections” are fundamental to the Bodhisattva path. Now we come to Wisdom (Prajna Paramita) In Mahayana Buddhism, this means seeing into, piercing  … emptiness …  being, allowing, witnessing and losing ourselves in … the dance of emptiness … (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 20…

NOTE FROM JUNDO: THANK YOU TO ALL THE FOLKS WHO WROTE. LEON IS DOING FINE TODAY. AMAZING HOW FAST KIDS CAN RECOVER SOMETIMES. Spent the evening in the emergency room for our son … sudden 40C/104F fever … He’s ok now it seems … but, man, it was a rough night … Pardon if the…
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