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Dharma talks by Jundo Cohen Roshi & priests from Treeleaf Zendo

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13:43

Sit-A-Long with Taigu - Meeting the real self

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2012/04/22

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11:55

Treeleaf 'Shukke Tokudo' Ordination Ceremony: THIS...

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2012/04/17

This Sunday, our Sangha will welcome new novice priests through the ritual of Shukke Tokudo Ordination. As is typical of our Sangha, the ceremony will be conducted simultaneously in three places around the world ... dropping all thought of here and there, now and then ... with the Preceptor (Jundo Cohen) in Japan, and our Ordainees in Austin, Texas and New York. (We also will welcome one additional new novice priest, Myozan of Dublin, Ireland, who was recently Ordained by Rev. Taigu). If you

21:15

SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha

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2012/04/07

Dharma talk from Taigu during April 7th Zazenkai. Visit forum thread here!

13:02

DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

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2012/03/31

It is the first day of April here in Japan, the start of Spring, and that is a time to think of endings and beginnings ... SO, I AM VERY SAD TO ANNOUNCE THE END OF TREELEAF SANGHA as it has been until now ... ... and the BIRTH OF A NEW AND IMPROVED TREELEAF ... We are just trying to make BUDDHISM SEXIER! We asked for your suggestions, and we listened ... to all of them! Even the really really dumb ones! In fact, this may be THE END OF BUDDHISM AND ZEN! There is no Zazen sitting to accompany

12:20

SIT-A-LONG with Taigu FUKANZAZENGI 5

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2012/03/18

Furthermore, the whole body far transcends dust and dirt: who could believe in the means of sweeping and polishing? In general, we never depart from the place where we should be: of what use, then, are the tiptoes of training? De plus, le corps dans sa totalité est au delà de toute poussière, qui peut croire qu’il est besoin de l épousseter et le polir ? En général, jamais nous ne quittons cet endroit mémé, pourquoi se soumettre alors a un entrainement diligent? This section refers to the

10:43

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: WHAT'S NEXT!?!

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2012/03/10

Almost each week someone asks me, "What comes next in my practice? How do I deepen it? What should I do now? What book should I read with all the secrets? I feel like something is still missing and that I must do more." But how can I respond to such a question when the very heart of this Path is learning to live and be this life radically FREE OF THE NEED FOR 'WHAT'S NEXT', LIBERATED OF 'SOMETHING MORE THAT NEED BE DONE', FULFILLED OF 'ANYTHING MISSING'! Oh, don't misunderstand. I typically

11:18

SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Fresh wisdom

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2012/03/04

Don't become a living clutter, a collection of piled up items. Practice is meant to free you out. When freedom is, wisdom blooms. I don't get wisdom from quotes, books, or experiences. from this moment,as is, it comes. And often it doesn't. And I could not care less. Do you want to be like a pretty dead dry fish of just alive, fish in the sea, sea in the fish, sea-fish boundlessly here? We don't need insight. We don't need whaou moments. When they happen, let them happen. They will soon

32:11

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate...

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2012/03/03

We close this series on Master Seng-ts'an's XIN XIN MING ... FAITH IN MIND ... a simple, but subtle recipe ... 止動無動 Consider movement stationary and the stationary in motion, 動止無止 both movement and rest disappear. 兩既不成 When such dualities cease to exist 一何有爾 Oneness itself cannot exist. 究竟窮極 To this ultimate finality 不存軌則 no law or description applies. 契心平等 For the unified mind in accord with the Way 所作倶息 all self-centered straining ceases. 狐疑盡淨 Doubts and irresolution's vanish 正信調直 and

11:11

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: WHOLLY HOLY WHOLE

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2012/02/16

I came across a discussion on the internet this week about "how to Shikantaza" ... and much good and solid advice was given. Some folks follow the breath, some "Just Sit" in boundless spaciousness, some advised this or that on the posture and letting thoughts go. All wise and good, and talk of posture, focus and such are all a necessary setting of the stage. However, in my view (and that is all it is, and hopefully a viewless view too) SOMETHING VITAL WAS LACKING AND LEFT OUT OF THE CONVERSATION,

10:33

SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: the sound of a bell

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2012/02/12

In the very begining of Shobogenzo, Dogen quotes a famous poem of Nyojo, his teacher: My late master, the eternal buddha, says: Whole body like a mouth, hanging in space; Not asking if the wind is east, west, south, or north, For all others equally, it speaks prajñā. Chin ten ton ryan chin ten ton. Free, careless, empty, the bell and the sound cannot be broken in two. Is the bell just a bell? Isn't the bell bigger, much larger? How large, how big is it? And where are you in the

08:50

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child...

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2012/02/11

Our little daughter has come home from the hospital today, after we might have lost her just a week ago. HURRAH! HORRAY!! Mom and Dad are AS HAPPY AS HAPPY CAN BE! Yet, just as a few days ago when things were dark and we were so sad, we still do not push any of life away, including happiness ... ... And neither do we run toward the days like this, clutching at happiness. Such is True Happiness, Equanimity and Contentment! Equanimity does not mean that one should be emotionless! One can have

01:59

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming-(XIII)-Child in...

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2012/02/08

Our daughter has been in hospital all this week very sick, with Sepsis (a major infection of the blood) compounded by influenza. The sepsis is responding very well to treatment, but it is serious because of her age and she is still a very sick little girl. She's had a spinal tap and been poked and prodded. However, things are stable, looking up from a couple of days ago, the doctors sound very optimistic now, and she is in very good hands here in the pediatrics ward. Here's GASSHO to all nurses,

00:00

SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Fukanzazengi 4

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2012/01/30

Upon investigation, the truth is all around: how could it rely on practice and experience? The vehicle of the fundamental exists of itself, what is the point of trying? Alors que nous la recherchons, la voie-vérité pénètre originellement toutes choses.Comment dépendrait-elle de la pratique et de la réalisation ? Le véhicule de la Loi existe de lui-même, a quoi bon y consacrer tant d’efforts ? Please visit the forum thread here!

11:59

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen - A Love Supreme

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2012/01/28

Really gettin' DOGEN'S WILD SOUND is a lot like gettin' THIS WILD SOUND ... (Please give a listen, and keep it playing while you read the rest of this post) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ds-sc_PJck&feature=player_embedded I've described Dogen as a JHANA JAZZ MAN-POET, riffing and free expressing-reexpressing-bending-straightening-unbinding-releasing the 'standard tunes' of the Sutras and Koans. The untrained ear can't make head or tail of it, complex rhythms, notes flying, wild tempo

11:45

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen is SO OLD!

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2012/01/22

This week, Japanese Lineages of Soto Zen celebrate the 811th BIRTHDAY OF MASTER DOGEN! YEA! YIPPEE! But in some ways, MASTER DOGEN IS VERY OLD AND OUT OF DATE! Oh, don't misunderstand! So many of Dogen's Teachings are FOR ALL TIMES AND ALL PLACES. In fact, his vision of Time and Timelessness, BEING-TIME, is ALL TIME IN EVERY TIME, THIS TIME AS TOTALLY THIS TIME AND THAT TIME, ITS OWN TIMELY TIME, EACH TIME OR HALF TIME JUST A WHOLE TIME, A WORMHOLE-TIME, A RABBIT HOLE TIME ...THE WHOLE HOLY

10:35

Taigu - Rituals

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2012/01/16

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10:15

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (Part XXI)

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2012/01/14

Folks often ask about how long, and how often, to sit. What I am about to say may be controversial among some 'Zennies', seen as too "lightweight" by many ... easily misjudged and misunderstood as "breaking the rules" or "not sufficiently serious". But our way is "goalless, non-attaining" ... the attaining of which is the Greatest Goal! A moment of sitting is a moment of Buddha realized! Certainly, sitting is not (when tasted as suchness) a matter limited by time or space, long or short in place

14:38

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: WHO OWNS THE KOANS?

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2012/01/09

I have been having a little back-and-forth with Rev. Dosho Port about some statements made on his blog, in a post aptly titled "Who Gets to Say Anyway?" ... http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildfoxzen/2012/01/what-what-is-it-isnt-and-who-gets-to-say-anyway.html There are many Paths up and down the no-mountain mountain, each suited to sentient beings with differing needs. I believe that there are students who may benefit from Koan introspection alone, and those who will not. There are student who

33:45

January 7th, 2012- OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI!

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2012/01/06

WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR TOGETHER ... Dear All, Please 'sit-a-long' with our MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE 8am to noon Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 6pm to 10pm, Los Angeles 3pm to 7pm (Friday night), London 11pm to 3am and Paris midnight to 4am (early Saturday morning)) ... and visible at the following link during those times ... LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at JUSTIN.TV: CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN http://www.justin.tv/treeleafzen But FEAR NOT if not

10:18

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Oh, What A Year It's Been!

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2011/12/31

Happy times, sad times, rainy days and sunny ... earthquake and nuclear disaster, good health and sickness ... the death of someone we love, our new daughter coming home ... getting older ... ups, downs, beginnings and endings ... Oh, what a year this has been! But in truth, a year like any year. The Buddha knew that such is the stuff of life, all of life filled with many things we long for and many we fear and resist ... I usually describe Shikantaza Zazen to newcomers by a "sky-and -clouds"

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