Today, we are celebrating having a new home for our Zazen netcast, right here on Beliefnet!
For folks new to our sittings … I’m Jundo, a Soto Zen Buddhist priest living in Japan. Our community, and these meditation sittings, are all meant especially for folks who wish to sit Zazen (Zen style meditation) together with others, but can’t do so easily: maybe due to health concerns, living in remote areas, super busy work schedules, childcare and family needs and such.
So those folks can sit here with me each day (or most days … the camera and internet doesn’t always cooperate). In fact, everyone who wants to sit Zazen with me is Welcome! Pull up a cushion!
Now, some people may feel strange about our sitting Zazen together over the internet, with me “here” and them over “there“, probably continents apart. But I ask such people this:
Where are you at the instant all thoughts of “here” and “there” and “separation” are dropped from mind?
Where are the barriers that truly separate us, and all the world one from the other … except within our little heads?
I will explain more about how to sit in the coming days too.
posted December 30, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Hi Jundo.
i see not much have changed but the web address and that i everything and nothing at the same time 
nice talk
i liked it.
Gassho,D
posted December 30, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I am very excited for this blog!
posted December 30, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Happy last day of the calendar year that marks another revolution around the big orange ball of fire!
posted December 31, 2008 at 12:49 am
Excellent move, Jundo! I’ve been reading Rod Dreher for years on Beliefnet, so it feels very homey to me!
posted December 31, 2008 at 12:54 am
Different, yet the same…aaahhhh.
posted December 31, 2008 at 6:11 am
“Junk in the trunk . . . this trunk.”
Very nice, it is good to see you here, Thank-you, Jundo.
Gassho,
Martina
posted December 31, 2008 at 11:50 am
Hi all,
Happy this-that-and-the-other-thing!
Gassho
Ken