Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai
If you’d like to join the sangha for practice, at Treeleaf we offer weekly zazenkai (zazen meetings), where we formally practice together.
Our weekly zazenkai led by Jundo Roshi, our principal teacher and founder, is held every Friday evening (US time) or Saturday very early morning (EU time). The format of the meeting is as follows:
15′ Ceremony (Heart Sutra in English and Dedication)
30′ Zazen
10′ Kinhin
30′ Zazen
5′ Verse of Atonement and Four Vows
15′ Informal tea time (all welcome)
If you live in Europe, we offer a zazenkai on Sunday mornings that lasts approximately 75 minutes. The format of this meeting is as follows:
30′ Zazen (Verse of the robe at the end)
10′ Kinhin
20′ Zazen
15′ Ceremony (Heart Sutra, Verse of Atonement, Four Vows)
15′ Informal tea time (all welcome)
For this zazenkai, we invite you, if you have a rakusu or Okesa, to not put them on before joining, as we recite the Robe verse together at the end of the first sitting period.
NEXT WEEKLY ZAZENKAI
May 9 – 10 th
Below, you can find the theme and recording of our previous zazenkai after the event, or the theme and streaming video on the day of the meeting
Weekly zazenkai: Zen is Swimming (An Analogy that Ain’t All Wet)
“Practice-Enlightenment” is a Great Pool … not just an Olympic-size pool, but as vast as the cosmos, boundless, no edge in fact …
But what is a pool without lively swimmers? This pool is just dead water without a swimmer. But what are swimmers without a pool? A swimmer is not a swimmer without the pool. There is no “swimming” without both water and swimmer (not to mention the ground below and the sky above.)
For a Buddha-Pool, however, the central point is that water, swimmer, swimming, ground and sky are not two, but are one great Swimming (Big S). There is only this Swimming.
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