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AS I CANNOT GET A NEW SIT-A-LONG POSTED TODAY, HERE IS AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE … Looking at ‘Right Mindfulness’ and ‘Right Concentration’, we shall receive a lesson from a visiting Master … If you would like more information on his lineage, please look here. (we have a county nature reserve behind our small house…

THERE WILL BE NO SIT-A-LONG MONDAY. ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed. Paul Henderson, the park’s chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. … For years, the arch has been a favorite stopping point for…

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,…

Watching the Olympics tonight … Ah, it’s so wonderful when (once in awhile)the whole world justs gets along … THE SIGNAL DROPPED HALF-WAY THROUGH … SO PLEASE SELF-TIME IF SITTING-A-LONGPress on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE

DUE TO TECHNICAL HURDLES, THERE WILL BE NO SITTING THURSDAY. SEE YOU TOMORROW!! Somebody asked about the term “Buji” (無事) Zen, which is often heard not in a positive sense. Here is a typical definition … Buji Zen – False zen practice. Those who rationalize “since Buddha-Nature is intrinsically with us, there is no need…

Let’s look some more right in the eyes of our ‘Original Face’ … You should therefore cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face…

What if there were really, truly dropped away all thought of subject and object, all that is perceived by the senses, the sensing and the senses themselves … What would “be” then (if we drop away even the word “be“) ?? There is a reality even prior to heaven and earth;Indeed, it has no form,…

Please ‘sit-a-long’ with our August “Zazenkai” (running time: approx. 4 hours … Sound is a little soft despite our new hi-tech microphone. Oh well. Please bear with that.). 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…

How to make the ‘Boogeyman’ of thoughts go away? Thus/ emp/ti/ness/ is/ not/ form/;not/ sen/sa/tion/ nor/ per/cep/tion/,not/ for/ma/tion/ nor/ con/scious/ness/. REMINDER: Our Monthly 4 hour Zazenkai will be tomorrow, 9pm to 1am Japan time (Saturday Night). It may be accessed through this blog shortly before. Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE…

Your whole life the good & bad, the ups & downs … all just … EMPTINESS … and that’s truly SOMETHING! O/ Sha/ri/pu/tra/, all/ things/ are/ex/pres/sions/ of/ emp/ti/ness/,Not/ born/, not/ des/troyed/,not/ stained/, not/ pure/;Nei/ther/ wax/ing/ nor/ wan/ing/.. THE SIGNAL DROPPED MID-WAY …IF SITTING-A-LONG, PLEASE SELF TIMEPress on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE…
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