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We begin our series of talks on Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo Bendowa … anuttara samjak sambodhi … means “supreme, incomparable, unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment” Most think of Zazen as a means to reach and attain some sought after enlightenment, somewhere down the road. But Master Dogen expressed the very sitting of Zazen as the realization of…

[DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, TODAY’S RECORDING IS A REPLAY] 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…

Today’s subject is “sitting with Anxiety” …  Is it true that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” ?? (and thank you very much to all the folks who wrote to ask about my son Leon. He is feeling much better today) (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting…

I was going to start a series of talks yesterday on an old Zen writing … Master Dogen’s Bendowa (sometimes called “A Talk about Pursuing the Truth”) … But our son, Leon, started throwing up at 4am … and I’ve been up all night and all day with him (he is better now, after the…
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