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“Gaining” is empty. Achieving “no gaining”, non-achieving, is achieving a great gain! We attain “no gaining” by finding that there’s nothing to seek,nobody to be seeking. (which is all so very different from “giving up” and complacency, by the way) No/ suf/fer/ing/, nor/ cause/ or/ end/ to/ suf/fer/ing/; No/ path/, no/ wis/dom/ and/ no/ gain/.…

Because of the late hour, I pulled my car off on the side of the road and sat there. I was way out in the country, and the signal was weak, so the image is scrambled and barely visible … and there is no sound … and it cuts in and out … … but,…

AS WE SEW A RAKUSU IN PREPARATION FOR JUKAI, I THOUGHT IT NICE TO LOOK BACK ON THIS LITTLE VISIT WITH NISHIJIMA ROSHI (who is doing fine, by the way) … Today, our most special guest ‘sits-a-long’ … The subject was the ‘Kesa’ (skt. kâshâya), the monk’s outer robe. The ‘Rakusu’ is the shortened version…

Please ‘sit-a-long’ with our October “Zazenkai” (running time: approx. 4 hours) … The sitting schedule is as follows: 00:00 – 00:50 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA English Only / SANDOKAI) & ZAZEN00:50 – 01:00 KINHIN01:00 – 01:40 ZAZEN01:40 – 01:50 KINHIN01:50 – 02:30 DHARMA TALK & ZAZEN02:30 – 02:40 KINHIN02:40 – 03:20 ZAZEN03:20 – 03:30 KINHIN03:30 –…

I PROMISED TO TAKE MY SON TO SEE FIREWORKS TODAY,SO A GOOD PLACE FOR SOME INSTA-ZAZEN© … On blankets watchingBoom after boom in night sky –Firelight showers THE LENGTH, JUST A SINGLE FLASH. REMINDER: OUR 4 HOUR MONTHLY ZAZENKAI WILL BE TOMORROW,SUNDAY NIGHT 9PM to 1AM (JAPAN TIME)(Sunday morning in most of North America, Sunday…

How to explain Emptiness, ‘beyond words’ ? Perhaps it’s like making the “boogie man under the bed” disappear … When you just stop thinking about the “boogie man”, drop all thought of some “boogie man” … HE’S GONE! It is not a matter of philosophical arguments about whether he’s there or not there … exists,…

[NOTE: USTREAM TODAY TAKES ABOUT 30 SECONDS TO START AFTER PRESSING THE “PLAY” ARROW. PLEASE PRACTICE THE VIRTUE OF “PATIENCE”] We have seen the Buddha’s teaching of the Four Noble Truths, the cause and end to Suffering (Dukkha) via the medicine of the Eightfold Path … It is the Path that Bodhisattvas (let’s say “Beings…

NOTE: THE SIGNAL CUT JUST AFTER THE FIRST BELL. USTREAM SEEMS TO HAVE SOME ISSUES ON SUNDAYS! . The ‘last’ branch of the ‘Eightfold Path‘ is ‘Right Concentration’, ‘Right Meditation’ … … Zazen But the path has no beginning, no end … each branch supporting and supported by the others Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE:…

Welcome to our Saturday “Live from Treeleaf” Zazen, We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart Sutra in ENGLISH, then sit about 40 minutes of Zazen, then 10 minutes of Kinhin, closing with the chant of the “Verse of Atonement” and “Four Vows”. Please join in, one and all. Gassho,…

‘Right Mindfulness’ of ‘things without’ is an awareness and understanding of the events that surround us in the present moment, seeing clearly phenomena as they arise and how we perceive them. We experience how our inner condition, our thoughts and emotions, help create our experience of the world without. We learn to discern the nature…
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