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Please join our weekly “Live from Treeleaf” Zazenkai meditation … Though our chanting will be a bit quiet tonight, as we have children visiting and trying to sleep near where we sit Zazen!  🙂 We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart Sutra in ENGLISH (see below), then sit about…

. Our series on “Zazen in the Hospital” continues with today’s adventure in my “soon turning 50” routine medical check up … the dreaded: COLONOSCOPY … (A little more dreaded here in Japan, where no anesthesia is used and the patient is wide awake the whole time. Talk about an “Inner Enlightenment”!) A little known…

Ten Pure Virtues or “Perfections” are fundamental to the Bodhisattva path. Now we come to Wisdom (Prajna Paramita) In Mahayana Buddhism, this means seeing into, piercing  … emptiness …  being, allowing, witnessing and losing ourselves in … the dance of emptiness … (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 20…

NOTE FROM JUNDO: THANK YOU TO ALL THE FOLKS WHO WROTE. LEON IS DOING FINE TODAY. AMAZING HOW FAST KIDS CAN RECOVER SOMETIMES. Spent the evening in the emergency room for our son … sudden 40C/104F fever … He’s ok now it seems … but, man, it was a rough night … Pardon if the…

Please join our JULY MONTHLY 4-hour ‘Live from Treeleaf’ ZAZENKAI, recorded in “real time” and available at the following links: The recording is divided into 2 parts as follows (click on the blue link) : 00:00 – 00:50 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA / SANDOKAI) & ZAZEN00:50 – 01:00 KINHIN01:00 – 01:40 ZAZEN01:40 – 01:50 KINHIN ZAZENKAI…

(BENDOWA XXXVII) Though every action may be said to be “Zazen” in its limitless meaning … whether walking, standing, running, sitting or reclining … … there’s something special about Zazen seated in the cross-legged position. One reason is that it can be a position of ease and balance … … but also, since it is…

I would like to recommend another small daily practice that can fit into any life … … voluntarily, each day, doing without something desired. (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended) To subscribe to “Treeleaf Zen” click here.  

On Today’s “Top Ten” Countdown of the  “Pure Virtues of the Bodhisattva” … … we come to No. 5 …  Meditation .. Dhyana … (not to be confused with the 50’s song ‘Diana’ …  Hold me, darling, ho-ho hold me tight Squeeze me baby with-a all your might Oh, please stay by me, Diana Oh,…

I had my annual physical today, the way they do it in Japan. (Wow, I hope my fellow Americans soon get a national health insurance system like they have here in Japan … let’s just say that there is not an inch or opening of the body left untouched, and it cost me what a…

Please join our weekly “Live from Treeleaf” Zazenkai meditation … However, for technical reasons, today’s sitting has been pre-recorded. 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…
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