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As I was on my way to Kyoto this morning, i wrote the followings cheap poems: Books and ideas are far too serious Children and walks will show you the way All these words pointing at the ineffable snow on snow Cluttered head never ending blossoms this life Well,this is an attempt to convey the…

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

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – VII ) Cheerfully accepting what one is handed … … yet sincerely and carefully doing one’s best to make it good **(Before the noon meal, the tenzo conducts a service in the kitchen for Soko Shinsai, a Chinese folk deity and the guardian spirit of the oven who…

dewdrops are dancing on pampas grass and how the moon is sailing above them all!! Ryokan Farfrom being a distant and benevolent Boddhistava ,Kannon can be seen asthe dynamic radiance of stillness, it arises from the mudra ofnon-duality and shines through time and space, sun-like. Likethe moon of Genjokoan, it touches,  permeates  the myriad forms withoutaltering…
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