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NOTICE: OUR MONTHLY 4-HOUR ‘LIVE’ ZAZENKAI WILL BE HELD ON MAY 9th (BENDOWA XXV) In other words …  A single person’s sitting a moment of Zazen resonates like a bell through all space and time, carrying out the Buddha’s work throughout the Universe, in total harmony with all beings and things everywhere. Practice is our…

(BENDOWA XXIV) I am jumping back a sentence in the text due to my lack of mindfulness … Also, today’s sitting and talk is especially dedicated to the fellow who wrote the other day to say that his son had passed away recently … In other words … You are perfectly you and not you,…

A member of our Sangha posted this comment on our Forum … I have only learned since (recently) beginning to study Zen [that one can sit with one’s problems]. Before, I had the notion that problems must be gotten rid of in order to be happy. Now I am understanding that when I sit, I…

We should never forget the silence … No words needed today, only sitting. (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.  

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…

(BENDOWA XXIII) One of the great Ancestors of Soto (Caodong) Zen in Song Dynasty China, Hongzhi Zhengjue, wrote this in his Mozhao Ming (Inscription on Silent Illumination) … All the myriad things in the universeemit radiance and speak the dharma [the Buddha’s teachings].They all attest to each otherand individually correspond in dialogue Uchiyama Roshi writes…

(BENDOWA XXII) In other words …  The grand chain reaction of Inter-being Inter-dependency Inter-support that is this world manifests … —not– by our thinking about it, nor by our analyzing it, nor by our having some small views or perspective about it all, nor by our doing some activity or practice in order to bring…

A simple daily plan for nurturing the wholesome seeds of our mind …   (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.  

A very ancient Buddhist model of the human mind and psychology includes something called the Store Consciousness (Alaya-vijnana). Thich Nhat Hanh has compiled several verses which give a sense of its workings … here are part: Mind is a field In which every kind of seed is sown. This mind-field can also be called “All…

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…
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