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. I am happy to annouce a new weekly feature on the ‘sit-a-long’ … “MONDAYS with TAIGU” … a talk each Monday by Rev. Taigu Turlur, teacher at the Treeleaf Sangha … Welcome Taigu! Rev. Pierre Taigu Turlur (also know as “Kuma san”, meaning “big stupid bear“, though many prefer “cuddly bear“) was born in…

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…

. This week (actually, the holiday is in both July and August) is the major Japanese Buddhist holiday of Obon … a time for remembering the deceased and our ancestors … Here is the description by the Soto Zen headquarters in Japan The memorial services held at Obon have two meanings. One is tohonor the…

No video today, but an ANNOUNCEMENT of our upcoming, “fully online” 100 day ‘ANGO’ … as well as Precepts study and Rakusu sewing in preparation for our next ‘JUKAI’ (Undertaking the Precepts Ceremony, scheduled for January 2010) … both resources we wish to make available through Treeleaf Sangha to those in the Zen Community who…
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