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Treeleaf Zen

We break our world into pieces by the words we use. Two such words are “now” and “then”. Of course, in our day-to-day lives, we need to live in changing time … past becomes present beomes future … we awake in the morning, go to bed at night … we are born, are children, grow…

Please join us for a moment of Zazen … About 20 minutes in which nothing, and everything, happens …

True Story. Visiting Florida last week, in a canoe on the Loxahatchee river, my wife at the front, me in back paddling, wind comes up suddenly and blows us sideways toward the muddy bank … right into the backside of a sleeping 4-foot alligator. (Now, it’s not so easy to hit a gator, even in…

Where are you at the instant all thoughts of “here” and “there” are dropped from mind? In Zazen, those words, those concepts, can be dropped quick away. The mind thinks the thoughts “here” and “there,” and thus the mind can be let to stop doing so too. We need not experience some “here” where we…
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