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We’ll talk about Buddhas and ordinary living beings … living in one reality, yet conceiving and perceiving that fact so differently. _____________________________ When you let go, the dharmafills your hands; it is not within the boundary of one or many. When you try tospeak, it fills your mouth; it is not limited to vertical or…

When you let go, the dharma fills your hands … no restriction in any direction … _____________________________ When you let go, the dharmafills your hands; it is not within the boundary of one or many. When you try tospeak, it fills your mouth; it is not limited to vertical or horizontal.Buddhas continuously dwell in and…

After a couple of days’ being knocked a bit off my seat … we’re back in the saddle again! (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.  

[DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, TODAY’S ZAZENKAI IS PRE-RECORDED] 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…

I’m still feeling quite off my game today. This thing in my life really knocked me for a loop. Some folks think that one is never ever supposed to have a bad day or days if one is a “Zen Teacher” (so, I must be a poor one!). They’ll tell you that, once you get…

It is much easier to be at peace with a disaster or war on the other side of the world … … than with the little troubles in one’s own home or family. The people we are closest to, and most emotionally involved with, can certainly push our buttons sometimes … even after years of…

You are already perfectly you, and life is already perfectly life … … but it’s not a matter of merely saying so. _____________________________ ALL BUDDHA-TATHAGATAS TOGETHERhave been simply transmitting wondrous dharma and actualizing anuttara samjaksambodhi [supreme perfect enlightenment] for which there is an unsurpassable,unfabricated, wondrous method. This wondrous dharma, which has been transmittedonly from buddha…

Continuing with Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo Bendowa … I would like to talk a bit more about Jijuyu zanmai, "the samadhi, the still abiding taste of the self in self-fulfillment"  ... ...  by this the self both drops away and is affirmed and fulfilled in that moment. All is complete. Uchiyama Roshi's translation is that one…

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…
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