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Saturday January 31, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Weekly 'SATURDAY LIVE FROM TREELEAF' Zazenkai Meditation

Please join our weekly "Live from Treeleaf" Zazenkai meditation ...

We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart Sutra in ENGLISH (see below), then sit about 40 minutes of Zazen, then 10 minutes of Kinhin, closing with the chants of the "Verse of Atonement" and "Four Vows". Please join in, one and all.

Gassho, Jundo

(video below)

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Friday January 30, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) XIII - Don't Forget to Breathe!

... Just Breathing ... how do we breathe during Zazen meditation?

This diagram (kindly provided by a temple in Japan) might seem pretty obvious ... but what more do you want to know about 'just breathing'?

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Thursday January 29, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Zazen Meditation with Jundo : Married Monk?

Most Buddhist Clergy in Japan marry.

That may surprise some folks.

Buddhist clerics marrying is very unusual in the rest of Asia.

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Wednesday January 28, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) XII - Kensho Schmensho

Shikantaza 'Just Sitting' is profound 'Non-seeking' ...

... to attain that which cannot be attained.

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Tuesday January 27, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Reclining Buddha

The Buddha, when really very sick and unable to sit in the Lotus Posture, "sat" like this ...

reclining buddha.jpg

reclining buddha.jpg

The subject came up today in our Forum ...

FORUM: SITTTING WITH CHRONIC PAIN

What about sitting with chronic pain? What if you just cannot get into the Lotus Posture, the Burmese, or even sit on a chair?

Does that mean that Zazen is not for you?

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Monday January 26, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) XI - Insta-Zazen©

Although we usually practice Zazen sitting quietly, facing a wall ...... we can practice Zazen anywhere. It is not limited by time or place. Nor is it simply a matter of sitting cross legged, standing, reclining, floating in a pond...

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Sunday January 25, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

BIG MIND small mind

John from Australia, a Sangha member, asked if I would talk about "BIG MIND small mind" ...... Hmmm. That's BIG!The same fellow suggested I put a "sit-a-long suggestion box" on our forum ...TREELEAF SANGHA FORUM... for anyone who would like...

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Saturday January 24, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Weekly 'SATURDAY LIVE FROM TREELEAF' Zazenkai Meditation

DUE TO TECHNICAL REASONS, TODAY'S ZAZENKAI WAS PRE-RECORDED. OH WELL.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...

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Friday January 23, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) X

.In Soto style, we 'face the wall' ... we sit with our backbone slightly forward of the center of the Zafu, ... back straight, as if a tiny thread were running to the ceiling through the crown of the...

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Thursday January 22, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) IX

I am about to break a cardinal rule of 'Soto Zen' (not the first time): However, I hereby officially state that I do not think that the 'Lotus' Postures (although ideal if you can) are necessarily the best postures for...

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Tuesday January 20, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

All Things Change!

It is a fundamental Buddhist teaching that "All Things Change" ... Some of those changes can be in ways we want, some in ways we surely do not want.But Buddhists learn to be 'Masters of Change' ... going with...

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Monday January 19, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) VIII

The question came up today about whether a Buddha would ever feel frustration ... did he always feel peace and contentment?I believe he knew how to feel peace and contentment, even amid a world that can often be frustrating!You see,...

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Saturday January 17, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

JUKAI! JUKAI! JUKAI!

Well, the day has arrived for our JUKAI (Undertaking the Precepts) CEREMONY ...... our first ever for Treeleaf Sangha ...... and (we believe) the first Jukai Ceremony ever conducted fully online since, well, Buddhism began!!There is more about the meaning...

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Friday January 16, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: A little more about Buddhist Precepts

As we get ready for our Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts Ceremony) this Saturday (see here) ...... some folks wrote to ask whether the Precepts were really necessary.Don't the Precepts, and gentleness ... a dropping of greed, anger and ignorance ......

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Wednesday January 14, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

An Invitation: To Our "ALL ONLINE" Jukai Precepts Ceremony (This Saturday!)

This Saturday, our Treeleaf Sangha will be having our first ... and what seems to be the ... "World's First"... ALL ONLINE JUKAI (Undertaking the Precepts) CEREMONY!!Please come watch, if you have the time. The live netcast will start here...

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Tuesday January 13, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) VII

Today, some more to do in our "How To" Zazen ...Life is a million things to do. These days, all of us are juggling so much ...Is Buddhism a teaching of passivity? Must it mean withdrawal from the world?Not...

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Monday January 12, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) VI

More in our series on "How To" Zazen ... In "Just Sitting" Zen Practice, we learn to take life like the weather ...... whatever comes, comes. (remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;a sitting time of 20 to...

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Saturday January 10, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Weekly 'SATURDAY LIVE FROM TREELEAF' Zazenkai

Please join our weekly "Live from Treeleaf" Zazenkai ...We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart Sutra in ENGLISH (see below), then sit about 40 minutes of Zazen, then 10 minutes of Kinhin, closing...

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Friday January 9, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) V

We continue our series on "How To" Zazen ...... and how to handle thoughts that appear during Zazen.I often used the analogy of clouds (of thought) drifting in and out of a clear, blue spacious sky (a mind open and...

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Thursday January 8, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) IV

Continuing our series on "How To" Zazen ...The mind is like a noisy kitchen blender ... filled with all kinds of rattlin' stuff.Let it settle! ( if using headphones, loud noise at times in video !! ) (remember: recording ends...

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Tuesday January 6, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) III

Continuing our series on "How To" Zazen ...In our Soto Zen perspective, Zazen is Enlightenment itself ...... just crossing the legs, stretching the back, gazing at a wall, and all's done!Like saying that merely running a race --is-- the finish...

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Monday January 5, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) II

We are so often chasing after things, rarely still ... whether it is attainments, dreams and goals, fame and fortune and possessions, whatever we think will 'finally' make us happy and content in life (once we get there, if...

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Friday January 2, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Meditation Techniques, Zen Buddhist Meditation

New Years 4-Hour 'Live' Zazenkai Netcast

Hi,Please join our NEW YEARS/JANUARY MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI, recorded in "real time" and available at the following link:ZAZENKAI Remember, when we drop all thought of 'here' 'there' 'now' and 'then' ... we are sitting all together!Our Zazenkai consists of our...

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Friday January 2, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Solving the 'Techno-KOAN'

Sitting Zazen all together online, and having a video 'Zencast', can present some technical conundrums sometimes.Zen teachers back in the 13th Century, for example, probably only had to face running out of ink for their writing brushes ... while now...

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Thursday January 1, 2009

Categories: Guided Meditation, Zen Buddhist Meditation

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners) I

We begin 'Zazen for Beginners (We're All Beginners)' ... We'll talk the basics of 'Just Sitting' Shikantaza Zazen ... ... There's a bit more to it than 'just sitting' !! In a series of talks over the coming days,...

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Jundo Cohen is a Soto Zen Priest and founder and teacher of the Treeleaf Zendo--a Zen sangha (community) located in Tsukuba, Japan. Jundo was ordained in 2002 and subsequently received Dharma Transmission from Master Gudo Wafu Nishijima. He is a member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and American Zen Teachers Association . His blog, Treeleaf Zen, was designed specifically for Zen practitioners who cannot easily commute to a Zen Center due to health concerns, living in remote areas, or childcare and family needs.

On Treeleaf Zen, Jundo provides Zazen sittings, guided meditation, retreats, discussion, interaction with a teacher, and all other activities of a Zen Buddhist sangha, all fully online. Members now sit in over 20 countries. The focus is Shikantaza "Just Sitting" Zazen, as instructed by the 13th Century Japanese Master, Eihei Dogen.

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