Welcome to our Saturday "Live from Treeleaf" Zazen FROM SAIGON!
Unfortunately, the signal cut after but a few minutes ... In fact, during this week, I will be visiting some Zen monasteries (due at one at 4AM tomorrow morning for a dawn sitting!!!), and traveling in the countryside ... so the internet will be sporadic or none.
However, we can say that we are 'sitting together' even then ...
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Off to catch a plane to Vietnam in a few hours ... Tomorrow we will try for our monthly Zazenkai, but all week the internet will be sporadic. I will be sitting in a couple of monasteries, pretty cut off too ...
... but know that I am still "sitting-a-long" each day, even then ...
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Perhaps the questions I am asked most often have to do with pain during sitting ... Over at the forum, we have had some great discussions on painful Zazen, and many valuable tips and comments. If you are regularly experiencing pain and discomfort during your Zazen, please have a look ...
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Continuing with our series on 'anywhere, any time' Zazen ... today, we sit on a bicycle.
Bike riding is a way of physical balance, just as Zazen is balance in body-mind.
Sometimes, on life's bumpy road, we may lose that balance ... but do we know how to 'get back on the bike' quickly?
(lost the signal toward the end, so there is no closing bell)
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Our practice is beyond all thought of time ... yet I am running late late late today (or early, depending on where one is in the world). A silent sitting ...Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE...
Welcome to our Saturday "Live from Treeleaf" Zazen. (Due to Sound Problems this week ... I did not turn the mike on during the live sitting ... this is a rebroadcast of last week)We start with 3 floor prostrations (or...
Tried to do the sitting on a crowded train today ...... lost the signal though after a couple of stations (oh well)But a crowded train or bus is a great place to sit or stand Zazen ...... if you remember...
Caught in a Tokyo traffic jam ...... a good chance for ZazenNothing moving, but no place to goPress on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE...
As to No. 7 of the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" ...DOWNLOAD (PDF)I think this guy isreally off base!Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE...
Zen Practice has not really cured my procrastinating(though I used to be even worse).But you didn't think Zen fixes all one's problems and bad habits, did you?Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN...
Ours is a way of balance ...balance of body-mind through life ...But anyone can lose their balance,even after many years of practice sometimes.Even an experienced practitioner or teachercan fall off the bike.Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING...
A little more No. 6 of the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" ...DOWNLOAD (PDF)Your 'True Self' 'Original Self' 'One Mind"'Buddha Nature' ...Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE...
Welcome to our Saturday "Live from Treeleaf" Zazen,We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant Heart Sutra in ENGLISH only this week (we will alternate English/Japanese week to week), then sit about 40 minutes of Zazen, then...
No. 6 of the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" ...DOWNLOAD (PDF)being one with what?Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE...
A special guest teacher today, so I preempt our scheduled talk ...the subject is sitting with little pains, annoyances and mosquitoes ...Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH....
No. 5 of the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" ...DOWNLOAD (PDF)We now head to China ... the Way ...... the search for 'Buddha Nature', our True Self ...Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN...
Continuing our series on Zazen any where, any time ...Today, heading down the road**BY THE WAY, I RECOMMEND ZAZEN IN THE PASSENGER SEAT,NOT WHILE ACTUALLY DRIVING!!**(LOST THE SIGNAL TOWARD THE END,SO PLEASE TIME YOURSELF)Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU...
Welcome to our Saturday** "Live from Treeleaf" Zazen**(but on Monday!),We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant Heart Sutra in JAPANESE only this week (we will alternate English/Japanese week to week), then sit about 40 minutes of...
It is race day (F-1 Grand Prix), and the TV is screaming!! No place to go in this small house, I will just sit. But that's fine ...(THERE MAY BE SOME PROBLEM WITH THE NETCAST,SO PLEASE TIME YOURSELF)Press on arrow...
When your mind is noisy like a downtown street ...... remember where true stillness is found ....Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE...
Next of the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" ... DOWNLOAD (PDF)TANTRA! It sure is more colorful than our Zen Practice sometimesPress on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE...
More of the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" ...DOWNLOAD (PDF)In the Zen perspective, we might not have 'eternal life'... only 'no birth no death'Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE...
The next of the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" ...DOWNLOAD (PDF)Everything is impermanent, nothing has 'self', all is empty ... just realize this fact and you can make your great escape ...... so do Zen folks exist?(By the way, you can...
Continuing our look at the "Eight Types of Enlightenment":DOWNLOAD (PDF)'Enlightenment as Escape' might be said to emphasize (1) escape from human life by (2) extinguishment of human emotions and desire (3) over a series of incarnations ...... How does that...
Today we begin looking at the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" based on this book section {PDF}:DOWNLOADAs Buddhism moved from culture to culture, and as time passed, Buddhism changed and flowered in a variety of forms. Did it become better or...
Please 'sit-a-long' with our May "Zazenkai" (running time: approx. 4 hours). 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 – 02:30 ZAZEN...
Before we sit, I talk about some things coming up on the "Sit-a-Long" ... Next week, I'll be looking at the "Eight Types of Enlightenment" and this article {PDF}:DOWNLOADPress on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE...
A rice farmer near Treeleaf said I could film him today, planting each sprig of rice by hand.Time passes ... Things grow ...This world feeds and nurtures us ...I feel tremendous gratitude. Press on arrow for 'play'NOTE: IF YOU ARE...
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