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As we get ready for our Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts Ceremony) this Saturday (see here) … … some folks wrote to ask whether the Precepts were really necessary. Don’t the Precepts, and gentleness … a dropping of greed, anger and ignorance … naturally arise in our Zazen and Zen practice? Well, perhaps it is not…

This Saturday, our Treeleaf Sangha will be having our first … and what seems to be the … “World’s First”… ALL ONLINE JUKAI (Undertaking the Precepts) CEREMONY!! Please come watch, if you have the time. The live netcast will start here (and on this blog) at this link … http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sit-a-long-with-jundo from SATURDAY, JANUARY 17th 2009…

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)
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