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I’m late, I’m late … for a very important date (and sitting) … But can we truly be “late” for anything? Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE

a silent sitting … Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE

Today’s Zazen is only an instant (and I mean “INSTANT”) … We are visiting the world’s third largest sub-atomic particle collider, which happens to be located just 15 minutes by bicycle from Treeleaf Tsukuba. (Seen here, with Mt. Tsukuba in the background). So close, that Jundo and family will be some of the first matter…

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,…

Today’s Insta-Zazen© is 40 seconds … just waiting to cross a street … Keishin said it well in another posting in the forum: We can disappear into the here and now, right now. That’s a practice we can do anywhere, any time. Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE…

Today’s Zazen is only 1 minute long … but (sometimes) time does not matter … I’m in a dreary government office to file some forms, waiting for my number to be called … it is taking forever … a perfect time for Insta-Zazen© (when isn’t?). (for those folks who don’t know about Insta-Zazen©, here’s a…

Now that the games are done for four more years, I’d like to propose that Zazen be made an event for the next Olympics … Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE

So, we now see that these lines of the Heart Sutra are shorthand for the “Twelve-fold Chain of Dependent Origination“, ruuning from “ignorance” to “old age and death” … … and emptiness breaks the chain. In fact, what “chain“?(Please excuse a few oral “typos” … I keep calling the chain the “12 foot chain” ……

Let’s look at a bit more at the ‘Twelve-fold-Chain‘ … (1) chaos or ignorance (sk: avida), (2) action (karma), (3) consciousness (vijnana), (4) the external world (nama-rupa), (5) the six sense organs (shadayatana), (6) contact (spasha), (7) sensation (vedana), (8) desire (trishna), (9) grasping (upadana), (10) possession (bhava), (11) birth (jeti), and (12) sickness, old…

TODAY (AND TOMORROW) … THE PROMISED TALKS ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT … The Heart Sutra’s talk of “Ignorance”, “Old Age” & “Death”, the human senses and consciousness, alludes to the Buddha’s explanation of the ‘Twelve-fold Chain of Cause & Effect’ (often called the ‘Twelve-fold Chain of Dependent Origination’ or ‘Twelve Causes’) … It describes…
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