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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,…

What is “suffering” from a Buddhist perspective? (Next time, we’ll look at how perceiving “emptiness” is a cure) A/vo/lo/ki/tes/va/ra/ Bo/dhi/satt/va/, A/wa/kened/ One/ of/ Com/pas/sion/, In/ Praj/na/ Pa/ra/mi/ta/, the/Deep/ Prac/tice/ of/ Per/fect/ Wis/dom/ Per/ceived/ the/ emp/ti/ness/ of /all /five /con/di/tions/,And/ was/ free/ of/ suf/fer/ing/O/ Sha/ri/pu/tra/, form/ is/ no/ o/ther/ than/ emp/ti/ness/, Emp/ti/ness/ no/ o/ther/ than/ form/;…

The 5 Conditions (or Skandhas, or Aggregates) create our false sense of a permanent, substantial “self”: Form (Rupa) – The aggregate of form corresponds to what we would call material or physical factors. It includes the material objects that surround us in the world. This also includes our physical bodies and the five physical sense…

In 1990, Carl Sagan persuaded NASA to use the Voyager 1 spacecraft to take a photograph of the planet Earth from a distance of 4 billion miles. The result was simply arresting: a portrait of our home as a tiny, fragile speck of blue adrift in an unimaginably vast sea of space. In a commencement…

NOTE: BECAUSE OF A BUG AT USTREAM, THE NETCAST MAY START TO PLAY UP TO ABOUT 5 MINUTES AFTER HITTING THE PLAY BUTTON. SO, HIT THE PLAY BUTTON AND SIT ZAZEN FOR 5 MINUTES WHILE WAITING. IT WILL START, AND IS GOOD FOR PRACTICING PATIENCE AND ACCEPTANCE. I would like to announce the next book…

Today, Will and I joined up with Hans to sit at “Eiheiji Betsuin Chokoji” Temple in Tokyo, an active training temple which is a branch of Eiheiji Head Temple. We sat with the open Monday Zazenkai. Like yesterday, though, we could not bring cameras into the sitting, so there is no recording today. But please…

Will and I spent a few hours sitting Zazen with the weekly public Sunday Zazenkai at Sojiji monastery. I could not take a camera into the sitting, but we say “hi” (below) and were sitting with everyone at Treeleaf anyway. Sojiji is one of the two head temples of the Soto School in Japan (with…

We are having another special Zazenkai tonight for two hours, in honor of Will’s visit … a “Will-zenkai” (we just had our “Hans-zenkai” last week)! We will sit 2 periods of about 40 minute Zazen, with 10 minute Kinhin. We close with the Verse of Atonement and Four Vows. Specially for tonight, our “Heart Sutra”…

Today, we are joined by one of these“William Barry’s”‘ … … but which“William Barry”??? Saturday, look for a special, 2-hour “Will-zenkai” … to be LIVE in the Sitting Room and on Ustream (look for details here) commencing at 10:00 pm Japan time … Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE…

While Hans is visiting Treeleaf from Germany, I took him on a hike of our local mountain … Mt. Tsukuba. It is one of Japan’s ‘Great Mountains’ … You can read all about “Tsukuba-san” here: Mt. Tsukuba Wiki So, please sit with Hans and me next to a really grand ‘ol ancient rock Click on…
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