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I received an e-mail with an important topic this past week … Hello Jundo 🙂 I have been watching your video’s on TreeleafZendo for a few months. I really enjoy it, I see things with manydifferent points of view, and keep the things you say in your videos inmy mind as I go through each…

… life … death … … showing front, back … the falling maple leaf … (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.

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XIV) In another great early work, Fukanzazengi, Dogen writes … Put aside the intellectual practice of investigating words and chasing phrases, and learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inward. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XIII) Like wild horses and crazy monkeys. I am going to spend a couple of days with this passage …  taming those horses, calming those monkeys … (You will hear and see our wild house cat, Tin Tin, scampering around the room during much of today’s sitting) ps-…

Please join our weekly “Live from Treeleaf” Zazenkai meditation … Tonight is dedicated to John Daido Loori Roshi … a great teacher to so many, a wonderful heart, a root of the tree of Zen in the West … who left this visible world yesterday … We will start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XII ) Let’s talk about old, long dead guys. They are a tough act to follow. _____________________________ Withresolve and sincerity, one should aim to exceed the ancients in purity andsurpass the former worthies in attentiveness. The way to put that aspirationinto practice in one's own person is, for…

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XI ) Someone in our Sangha made a special request for me to jump back a bit, to a couple of lines I had passed over.  He likes the quote … So, will do! Here it is, Fugen … (and I’ll try not to make a ‘pot head’…

This little funny going around the Zen-blogosphere reminded me that I should introduce our newest Zen teacher at Treeleaf …. Tin Tin Sensei (he even looks a little like the cat in the picture)  … Ya see … unlike you and me, cats don’t need to study and pursue “The Way” … they don’t even…

Kesa (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.

Please join our OCTOBER MONTHLY 4-hour ‘Live from Treeleaf’ ZAZENKAI, recorded in “real time” and available at the following links: Part of our Zazenkai was taken over by our new kitten … and by our son chasing after his new kitten. AS WELL, DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, PLEASE SELF-TIME THE 2:40 ZAZEN SITTING, as the…
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