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

We continue our series on “How To” Zazen … … and how to handle thoughts that appear during Zazen. I often used the analogy of clouds (of thought) drifting in and out of a clear, blue spacious sky (a mind open and clear of thoughts). Our mind in Zazen may be compared to the sky…

Continuing our series on “How To” Zazen … The mind is like a noisy kitchen blender … filled with all kinds of rattlin’ stuff. Let it settle! (  if using headphones, loud noise at times in video !!  )   (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes…

Continuing our series on “How To” Zazen … In our Soto Zen perspective, Zazen is Enlightenment itself … … just crossing the legs, stretching the back, gazing at a wall, and all’s done! Like saying that merely running a race –is– the finish line crossed. In this race, there is nothing to gain or attain,…
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