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. In 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.
Jundo is a translator of Japanese and writer, as well as a retired attorney. He began Zen Practice in 1980, and has lived in Japan (and a bit in China) for most years since that time. He is married to a lovely Japanese woman who is an Ai-ki-do practitioner, is the father of one small boy (and soon a girl), and thus believes that the hard borders between ordained priest and householder have long been vanishing in Buddhism. “Our Zen Practice, after all, is for living in this world” he often writes.
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