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TREELEAF ZENDO PODCAST

Treeleaf Zendo

Dharma talks by Jundo Cohen Roshi & priests from Treeleaf Zendo

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July 2015 Zazenkai Dharma Talk

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2015/07/05

FOR TODAY's TALK: Soto Zen Teacher Kokyo Henkel explains the "basics" of Mirror Awareness very nicely … The true nature of mind is mirror-like awareness, always just reflecting what’s happening, whether we notice this or not. It never shuts off or stops functioning, even when we’re completely engrossed in conceptual thinking or strong emotions. A mirror just receives whatever object is placed before it, neutrally and naturally. It has no opinions about the object. The mirror doesn’t prefer red over

10:02

June 2015 Talk - Why Zen Folks Fail - Part 4

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2015/06/28

Last time in this series on "Why Zen Folks FAIL!", we looked at NOT KNOWING HOW NOT TO CHASE! Folks don't know how to be totally still. This time, the reason "Zen Folks FAIL!" is because of complacently NOT KNOWING HOW TO CHASE! Folks don't know how to keep climbing and moving! Saying about this life and world that "there is nothing in need of change" --does not-- mean "there is nothing in need of change". Simply because all things are "perfectly complete, just as they are", that --does not-- mean

12:59

June 2015 Talk - Why Zen Folks Fail - Part 3

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2015/06/20

Many forms of Buddhist meditation center on seeking ... seeking benefits ranging from mystical states and insights, to simple relaxation and good health effects. These are great Practices, yet also feed the tendency so common to folks in modern, consumer societies to not know how to be truly still, content and whole ... for people in the West keep running after more, bigger, better, brighter. We want to be more focused, more peaceful, more enlightened ... We truly are hamsters on treadmills, and we

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June 2015 Zazenkai Dharma Talk

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2015/06/07

TODAY's TALK: Jijuyu-zanmai (The Self-Fulfilliing Samadhi / The still abiding taste of the self in self-fulfillment) by Menzan Zuiho Osho Menzan Zuihō (面山瑞方, 1683-1769) was a Japanese Sōtō Zen scholar and abbot of the Zenjo-ji and Kuin-ji temples active during the Tokugawa era. Menzan's scholarship was part of the Tokugawa movement of returning to original historical sources to revitalize Zen (復古. "fukko" - "return to the old"), especially the works of Dōgen Zenji. Before Menzan the works of Dōgen

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May 2015 Talk - Why Zen Folks Fail - Part 2

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2015/06/01

People fail at Zen because they think there is a place to fail. But in fact, THERE IS NO PLACE TO FAIL! People fail at Zen because they think there is -no- place to fail. In fact, THERE ARE ENDLESS PLACES TO FAIL! The biggest place to fail is to believe that there either is or is not places to fail. Better said, the trap is the failure to know that ONE CAN FAIL YET NOT FAIL AT ONCE!

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May 2015 Talk - Why Zen Folks Fail - Part I

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2015/05/22

Zen folks fail because we're IGNORANT, DELUDED sentient beings, of course! But more specifically, because of several common mistakes and misguided assumptions among many Zen students new and old (and by so-called Zen Teachers too). This is the first of a NEW VIDEO/AUDIO PODCAST SERIES and, over the coming weeks, I will look at many of the reasons that Zen students, Teachers, Zen groups and Buddhism in general are EPICALLY FAILING in the West (and why they are also doing quite well in so many ways,

37:06

May 2015 Zazenkai Dharma Talk

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2015/05/06

Buddhism [1] explains why sorrows exist in the world, and explains in reasonable, cogent, realistic ways (beyond some rather more doubtful and fanciful explanations it also offers), [2] provides a vision which offers peace and compassion amid, and transcendence of, all human suffering, and, simultaneously [3] offers a workable path toward the alleviation of such suffering and ugliness in this world in ways vitally necessary for our species' future. If Buddhism failed in those three hard tasks, I

08:56

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: gratitude & Great Gratitude

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2013/08/31

This "Buddha quote", however nice it sounds, is not something the Buddha likely said at all (turns out to be from the cheery 70's writer on love, Leo Buscaglia). Oh, the Buddha certainly taught us to be grateful for this precious life, but also to be Grateful (Big "G") in a way that puts down the balance sheet and any need even to hunt for the "silver lining". What is the difference between gratitude and Great Gratitude seen in a Buddha's Eye? Daido Loori once recommended this elegant, simple

06:59

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo - TO ALL SOLO PRACTITIONERS:...

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2013/08/09

Many times I hear folks say that they want to practice on their own, and not join in a Buddhist Community, because doing so gets in the way of their own practicing and sitting. They say that other people or having a teacher are a distraction, take up "my" precious time, are not a benefit to "me". Well, I say: Don't be a selfish sitter, a Pratyeka-buddha. There is an obligation, a face of the Bodhisattva Vow and taking refuge in Sangha, to support the Practice of others and not to be a

05:28

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: WHOLENESS

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2013/06/22

WHOLENESS ... ... WHOLENESS ... so whole that even saying "wholeness" is wholly unnecessary. Please visit the forum thread here!

12:10

Original face, Dogen 's words

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2013/05/06

in spring, the cherry blossoms in summer, the cuckoo 's song, in autumn, the moon shining, in winter, the frozen snow: how pure and clear are the seasons! Please visit the forum thread here!

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SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: FINGER WAGGING at SOTO...

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2013/04/27

I would like to criticize some Soto Zen Teachers for how we may be teaching Shikantaza (I know that all the Soto Teachers fully understand what I say. My point is merely whether we are conveying the message clearly enough). Yes, we teach the importance of sitting in a balanced way, be it in Lotus, Seiza, on a chair or the like. We may show students how to place the mind on the breath, the Hara, how to "return to the posture" or sit boundlessly or some other way. We may tell folks about "opening

12:50

True color, mokuran

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2013/03/30

What is your true colors? How can you show your true color? As the needle goes through the field of mokuran birds songs traffic sounds even the distant train even your sweet face clouded with suffering all of them all are sewn into mokuran true color

12:16

The Dharma is utterly useless

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2013/02/27

Please visit the forum thread here!

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SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Beautiful-Ugly-Buddha Eye

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2013/02/17

Sitting with the beautiful AND the ugly in this world ... finding that which simultaneously transcends and holds, breathes in and breathes out, "beautiful vs. ugly" ... is our Practice. We are free of aversion and attraction even as we have our ordinary human aversions and attractions, pulling the weeds we can and watering the flowers ... even as we embrace each as just what they are. One finds Wholeness, Light, Beauty that is unconcerned by small human judgments of beauty and ugliness. We

14:07

Sit-A-Long with Taigu: Unmasking

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2013/02/03

After Jundo s eloquent post and video, my humble take on the subject. Much like the beautiful dancing Dorothy on the yellow bricks road, OUR JOB IS TO UNMASK THE WIZARD, in other words to dispell the illusion of the ego and turn the three poisons, the three little companions of Dorothy into compassion, wisdom and action. Please visit the forum thread here!

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SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Even Buddhas Get the Blues

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2013/01/29

Taigu, our other Teacher here at Treeleaf, posted this week that he was going through some HARD TIMES at home and work, feeling stress and the blues from his job. Taigu recounted a story about the great Tibetan Teacher Chogyam Trungpa who, according to detailed accounts by his wife, suffered from frequent bouts of depression so severe that Trungpa was sometimes pushed to the point of considering suicide. (page 27 to 29 here) Taigu was talking about a little blues in his own case, not anything like

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SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: The BEST Zen is SO DISAPPOINTING!

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2013/01/19

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ZEN TALK YOU WILL EVER HEAR. It will save Zen Students endless tail chasing and dead-ends, disappointments and wasted days. It will allow every Sitting to be Magnificent ... both the Sittings which are magnificent and those which are not. One will never be let down by one's Zen's Practice again ... nor by one's life, family and friends, nor this whole world ... both when fulfilling your every dream and when falling far short. In an old Koan from the Book of Serenity

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SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: I AM-NOT-NOT-AM-AM A ZEN...

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2013/01/10

My Dharma Bro. BRAD WARNER has written (HERE) that we are not Zen "Clergy" ... or at least, he is not "Clergy". He writes ... Zen has to be just a little bit dangerous. If it’s not, it ceases to be Zen. The reason that Zen can go as deeply as it does into the question of what it means to be truly human comes in a large part because it’s not entirely safe. The safer, more rule-bound, more structured and organized it becomes, the shallower and less valuable it gets. Nobody gets hurt (supposedly)

10:29

Sit-A-Long with Taigu: No Expectations

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2013/01/06

Please visit the forum thread here!

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