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May 27, 2012•12 min
TREELEAF ZENDO PODCAST
Dharma talks by Jundo Cohen Roshi & priests from Treeleaf Zendo
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SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: The "Non-Bucket" List
Well, thought I could cross one item off the BUCKET LIST this morning, as a TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN passed across our town in Japan. Except, I soon found out, it was technically -not- a "total eclipse", but something called an "annular eclipse". That means that, because of the distances between sun, moon and earth, the moon does not completely block out the sun's rays, though in turn producing a most spectacular golden ring around the moon (as in the photo). I'd never even heard of an "annular ...
May 21, 2012•10 min
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Koan Misunderstandings, Koan Dogma
Our Treeleaf Sangha is about to begin dancing - and living - the 100 Koans of the treasured “BOOK OF EQUANIMITY”. So, it’s a good time to look at some all too common MISUNDERSTANDINGS, NARROW VIEWS, BIASES, SECTARIAN DOGMAS, “MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY-isms”, PARTIAL TRUTHS and PREJUDICES that plague discussion of Koan Practice in the modern Zen world. In doing so, my purpose is not to impose my own sectarian dogma and “my way or the highway-ism” in place of others. In fact, my central point is that ...
May 05, 2012•37 min
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: BIG & small
It is said that Buddhas and Zen Masters have the amazing power to transcend BIG and small ... ... to make the small TREMENDOUS, and the BIG as tiny as an atom ... ... to know the BIGGEST held easily in the smallest, and to hold the entirety of space and time in a blade of grass. IT IS TRUE! IT IS TRUE! IT IS TRUE! Basho haiku'd a tiny jump and a boundless sound ... The old pond. A frog jumps in. Plop William Blake sang ... To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold in...
Apr 28, 2012•8 min
Sit-A-Long with Taigu - Meeting the real self
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Apr 22, 2012•14 min
Treeleaf 'Shukke Tokudo' Ordination Ceremony: THIS SUNDAY
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 wou...
Apr 17, 2012•12 min
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha
Dharma talk from Taigu during April 7th Zazenkai. Visit forum thread here!
Apr 07, 2012•21 min
DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!
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 toda...
Mar 31, 2012•13 min
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu FUKANZAZENGI 5
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 legend...
Mar 18, 2012•12 min
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: WHAT'S NEXT!?!
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 resp...
Mar 10, 2012•11 min
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Fresh wisdom
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 vanish. ...
Mar 04, 2012•11 min
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality
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 life in ...
Mar 03, 2012•32 min
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: WHOLLY HOLY WHOLE
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...
Feb 16, 2012•11 min
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: the sound of a bell
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 picture? Please v...
Feb 12, 2012•11 min
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child Comes Home
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 one'...
Feb 11, 2012•9 min
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming-(XIII)-Child in Hospital
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,...
Feb 08, 2012•2 min
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Fukanzazengi 4
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!...
Jan 30, 20120
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen - A Love Supreme
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 ... A...
Jan 28, 2012•12 min
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen is SO OLD!
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 TIME...
Jan 22, 2012•12 min
Taigu - Rituals
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Jan 16, 2012•11 min
Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (Part XXI)
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...
Jan 14, 2012•10 min
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: WHO OWNS THE KOANS?
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 wil...
Jan 09, 2012•15 min
January 7th, 2012- OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI!
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 possibl...
Jan 06, 2012•34 min
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Oh, What A Year It's Been!
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" me...
Dec 31, 2011•10 min
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Home for the Holidays!
I am in China today, where Youtube is banned ... so I am not sure if I can post today's sitting or not .... But I would like to wish each and all members of Treeleaf, and our "Sit-a-Long" family, a Peaceful Rohatsu, Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah ... .... as well as All the Happy Holidays of Peace and Goodwill, whenever and whatever they are ... ... and a Very Tranquil and Content 'Just This Very Moment' too, ever new and changing ... This also leads to a related topic ... Heading home to se...
Dec 18, 2011•6 min
Rohatsu Talk 2.7b
http://www.treeleaf.org/sit-a-long/with-jundo-and-taigu/archives/2011/12/-welcome-toour-treeleafat.html
Dec 06, 2011•17 min
Rohatsu Talk 2.7
http://www.treeleaf.org/sit-a-long/with-jundo-and-taigu/archives/2011/12/-welcome-toour-treeleafat.html
Dec 06, 2011•16 min
Rohatsu Talk 2.6
http://www.treeleaf.org/sit-a-long/with-jundo-and-taigu/archives/2011/12/-welcome-toour-treeleafat.html
Dec 05, 2011•15 min
Rohatsu Talk 2.3
http://www.treeleaf.org/sit-a-long/with-jundo-and-taigu/archives/2011/12/-welcome-toour-treeleafat.html
Dec 05, 2011•12 min
Rohatsu Talk 1.9b
http://www.treeleaf.org/sit-a-long/with-jundo-and-taigu/archives/2011/12/-welcome-toour-treeleafat.html
Dec 05, 2011•19 min
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