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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 XII) According to Master Dogen’s account of his time in China, one morning his teacher Ju-Ching found a monk dozing during Zazen. Dogen heard his teacher scold the sleeping monk, “The practice of zazen is the dropping away of body and mind. What do you expect to accomplish by dozing? When Dogen heard this,…

Just a simple celebration today of the coming of Spring. Don’t feel like talking much today … It’s spring! (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.  

(BENDOWA XI) Master Dogen continues to tell us that “Zazen” ( that’s Zen meditation ) is all we need … enlightenment itself … And that means we don’t need to bother with all that other Buddhist stuff … like burning incense, ringing bells, bowing, chanting, worrying about the Precepts or even reading Buddhist books. All…

(BENDOWA X) Today, Master Dogen begins to lay out his case that Zazen (a moment of Zen meditation) is all you need! AND HE WAS RIGHT! If you can come to see an instant of Zazen as complete, the only place to be … THAT’S JUST WHAT IT IS! _____________________________ In China, although scriptures werecontinuously…

I was going to just share some happy news with everyone today: I passed my Japanese driver’s license test (considered one of the hardest in the world, by the way, and I failed twice! They make it tough to drive here.). I was just going to talk about how even Zen folks can have goals,…

[DUE TO A WEAK SIGNAL IN MY PRESENT LOCATION, TODAY’S ZAZENKAI IS PRE-RECORDED. HOWEVER, I WILL BE SITTING AT THE APPOINTED TIME] 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…

. For all the talking we do around here on Zen Practice, the meaning of what’s shown in the following picture can never, ever be forgotten … look closely … very closely …. Understand? (PS – There is no netcast today)

Tomorrow, our son Leon has a little graduation ceremony from Kindergarten, and he’s about to start 1st grade. It is a day of joy, also mixed with a touch of sadness at passing time. How should we approach such moments in our lives from a Buddhist perspective? Well, first we should know that even happiness…

In this section of Bendowa, Master Dogen recounts the tale of Zen Buddhism’s coming from India to China … Much of the story, we now know, is fictional … centered on historical characters who (if they lived at all) are composites of real persons remade via the creative imaginations of later writers.  But that does…
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