WELCOME to our TREELEAF SPECIAL “ALL ONLINE” 6-HOUR ZAZENKAI with Jean-Marc “Tenryu” Bazy (founder and teacher of  l’association zen Dogen Sangha de Lyon-Villeurbanne, France) …  … recorded in “real time” and available “on demand”for sitting any time, any place, at the links below. The sitting schedule is approximately as follows (rememberthat Kinhin times also can…

.THIS SATURDAY/SUNDAY (depending on location) … … to “unofficially” kick off our ANGO season a little early (“officially” beginning August 29th) … ANGO INFORMATION LINK … and to mark the visit to Treeleaf Tsukuba all this coming week of JEAN-MARC BAZY, a teacher in Nishijima Roshi’s Lineage from Lyon, France … LYON SANGHA LINK ……

(BENDOWA XLI) Today, a message for so-called “armchair Buddhists” … hesitant to get their feet wet … _____________________________ Questions Eight and Nine ... [Someone]asks, "The masters who spread the teachings through our country in previous ageshad all entered Tang Chinaand received the transmission of Dharma. Why, at that time, did they neglect thisprinciple [that practice-enlightenment…

Continuing with Master Dogen’s Bendowa … (BENDOWA XL) So, let’s say “enlightenment” is like baseball … Dogen went around visiting a lot of baseball stadiums, meeting the players and coaches … and here is what he learned about the playing of baseball: Says Dogen, if you want to make baseball baseball … ya don’t just…

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