- Our January 2020 Treeleaf JUKAI (Undertaking the Precepts) CELEBRATION! -MAIN PAGE-
- Now, for the REALLY stupid questions
- What does the tree the image of broken pine needle on the rakusu look like?
- Zen, Zazen and Work/Business. Questions about incorporating practice into our work.
- The Handbook Of Authentic Buddhism - Nishijima Roshi - Thoughts?
- Lost or maybe blind
- Buddhist exhibition in London
- Just a random thought about chanting
- Wow
- Recommended zen centers in tokyo
- What's a Dharma Gate
- zazen on a plane
- Happy Birthday, Dogen Zenji...
- This happened while in zazen
- A mistrust when sitting
- ANNOUNCEMENT: The RETURN of the Treeleaf "DAILY WISDOM/Dharma Leafs" Phone APP !
- Announcement: Parinirvana Memorial & Zazenkai 2020
- Practice without a teacher or sangha
- Is natural awareness the same as Zazen?
- Drifting eyes in Zazen
- Requesting Jukai Etiquette
- Zen Funks
- Music within Zen
- Has anyone read "The Way of the Bodhisattva" by Shantideva?
- Thoughts About Bodhisattvas
- Dogen Institute's new study page.
- Bodhisattva Vows test
- Best times to sit zazen
- ATTENTION: Special Zazenkai SUNDAY March 15th with Grace Schireson
- Life cycle of a zen student? Jukai, Priest, inka?
- Getting Swept Away
- Sitting with a bit of ceremony
- Unmodernising Buddhism
- Rainbows and Unicorns
- MASTER DOGEN'S Instructions for Washing the Hands
- Genjokoan (as read by Gilbert Gottfried)
- Stay at home, Watch at home #1
- Gratitude for Sangha
- The essential nature
- Stay at home, Watch at home #2
- Chanting / sutra for those who have passed
- We are Invited to Witness a Celebration: Home-leaving Ordination of Doyū (now Shonin)
- Personal Reading
- Stay at home, Watch at home #3
- Thank you Shokai
- Social distancing and online sanghas.
- Stay at home, Watch at home #4
- Is There Interest In A Weekend Retreat?
- 4/11 sit with Myōgan
- Chants off the Billboard Charts ... from Kossan
- How are you from Kakunen
- Non-attachment to jealousy and anger
- Dharma : A Conundrum
- Explaining "Metta"
- How should one read the Blue Cliff Records?
- An Essay on Shikantaza that 'Get's Sit Right!' by Lou Richmond Roshi
- Save the Date: Spring Retreat
- A Dharma Reflection on Dogen's "Spring and Autumn"
- Stay at home, Watch at home #5
- All of life is sacred
- Podcast recommendation
- When opportunities present themselves...
- Article: What If Our Delusions Aren’t a Barrier to Enlightenment?
- How the Buddha Got His Face
- Creation
- Rage-o-Meter 1 Zen Buddhism Practice 0
- Sentient
- Question Regarding Where to Sit
- Split Thread: Socially DIS-engaged Buddhism
- Brad Warner on Shikantaza
- Darkness is asking to be loved
- Metta (Loving Kindness) for All in Social Unrest
- A question on fate and destiny
- Children aren't born Racist
- Teachers and Lineages
- What a lovely piece of book
- ATTENTION: Special Zazenkai SUN. June 21st with Writer-Zen Historian Barbara O'Brien
- Denny O'Neil died today
- How the Pandemic Upended our Perception of Time
- A good biography on Ikkyu Sojun?
- A strange (not strange) Zazen experience
- Pitfalls of Shikantaza practice
- Chant-A-Long
- Reading
- Add breathing practices prior to zazen?
- Dogen Day with Upaya
- etiquette in de FSR
- Friday is an Auspicious Zeniversary
- "Prescribed" zazen
- Article: On Buddhism and Blackness
- Violent Media and Right Thought
- Film: Blueprints for Zen Practice
- For Discussion: Separating Ango and Jukai
- A gatha for dead animals?
- New book of Buddha photos by Michael Kenna
- Book Review: Steven Heine's "Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"
- Zoom Etiquette
- Zen For Nothing
- Post-Zazen Munchies
- Koan study
- Ritual - discomfort and seeking to understand
- A TREELEAF EXPERIMENT: Three Sacred Sentences (Please Join Poll)
- Conference on Buddhist Women
- ATTENTION: Special Zazenkai with Zen/Dogen Historian Dr. Steven Heine
- Zazen on pain medication
- The Dark Night, the Abyss, Nihilism?
- Enlightenment experience
- You Are Already Enlightened
- Shutting Down "Groups" Functionality
- Split Thread: The Weirder Stuff
- Sharing the dharma
- Right livelihood and tarot
- Daily dukkha as a motivator to see through illusion
- Zazen in a global pandemic
- Tell me about Manas-vijnana
- What's your one line mission (in life or work)
- Budai/Hotei Question
- Zen and daydreaming
- COMBINED THREAD: Soto Zen, the 'Bardo,' and Spirit
- The Elflord and the Mayfly - A Comic about Life, Death, and Eternity
- Seeking Helpers: Looking for 'Tea House' Hosts at Treeleaf
- RENAMED: To be such a thing, you must be such a person ...
- Sitting with white noise
- Rapturous Samadhi?
- 2020 Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts) and Ango (90 Day Abiding) Announcements Posted!
- Moving from a selfish practice to practice for all
- Free Sitting Room & Scheduled Sitting Room
- Pain and the Self (It's not my pain!)
- Hearing bells
- Book notes: Living Zen Remindfully by James Austin
- Some good news!
- Why do we chant?
- "Good for nothing" Sitting origin by Okumura
- Does the Mind live in the Now?
- Splitting monthly zazenkai session ?
- Writing on the Keisaku
- Zen, Bodhisattva vow and veganism/vegetarianism
- Enjoying problems
- Zen, zazen and awareness in sleep/lucid dreaming as a practice
- How do I deal with this long pattern of behavior?
- Announcement: Server and Forum Updates
- What do you bring to Treeleaf?
- Non-traditional Heart Sutra Chant
- Dropping off body and mind
- How much of dharma is upaya?
- How to Lend-a-Hand in times of Covid?
- Problems No. 2 or OTHER people’s REAL problems
- Did buddha really teach zazen or is it from bodhidharma?
- Searching for reading list
- Chop wood. Carry water
- The path to the Deathless - Mindfulness
- Practice that is Actually Practice
- Lah?
- Antaiji now
- Practice
- The Machine: A Comic about the Self, Death, and Rebirth
- (Un)Well
- Back in Print: My Christian Journey with Zen
- What are "the sayings of the old Masters?"
- Searching for book...old-timers please weigh in
- Gathas for the dead.
- Reminder: Jukai & Ango Season Begin this Friday
- What is the difference between desire, attachment and clinging?
- Practicing with disractions
- Zen of the six realms
- Ever worried because you're not worried?
- Kōshō Uchiyama and Randomness
- Clothes for Zazen
- Zazenkai as Well as my Zazen time I committed to
- Did Dogen invent Shikantaza?
- interview with Éric Rommeluère link
- prolonged right leg numbness after zazenkai
- All is Burning
- (Non)Split Thread: Teachers & Students in the Modern, Western Sangha
- Translation of Eihei Shingi?
- Invitation to a day of just Zazen and Kinhin. 09/16/2020 via Zoom
- About centers and bleeding fingers
- Zazen with closed eyes?
- (Non)Split Topic: Enlightenment's Real (Batchelor Foolish) but forget "Enlightenment"
- Nagarjuna question : why is emptiness "therapeutic" ?
- I can zazen on a hike. I can zazen on a bike...?
- A poem about Zazen
- How long did it take to see changes?
- Do priests need to have shaved heads?
- Perfectionism and over-effort during zazen and in life
- Pirated Books within Ethical Context of Refraining from Stealing
- Difficulty with Practice on the Weekend/When I Have More Time
- How To Cook Your Life : from the Zen kitchen to Enlightenment.
- Equanimity and a Grandmother's Heart.
- Sharing video about 1st temple Eiheiji
- Childlike, joy, wonder and simplicity
- A potentially pendandic question about "volition"
- Dokusan
- Heart Sutra
- Genjo Koan by David Brazier
- Movie: The Legend of Huineng
- Posture and the content of my zazen.
- Fatalism vs acceptance in Zazen
- Kinhin
- Am I still a buddhist?
- Zafu recommendation
- Released Today: THE ZEN MASTER’S DANCE by Jundo Cohen!
- Demon’s cave in the black mountain
- Platform Sutra
- Interesting Zen Film
- Rekindling my practice
- Proposed Change To The Treeleaf Eko Dedication
- Sesshin
- Residential Sesshin Suggestions?
- List of Precepts
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Our 2020 TREELEAF Home-Leaving ORDINATION of Ralf Kotei Prehn
- Meeting the Shōbōgenzō
- The precept I need the most help with is Right Speech
- A Zen Sangha is not like Other Places
- How do you stop trying to fix yourself during zazen ?
- Some wise words
- Posture Advice
- Being like a fish amidst suffering
- Clarification on Zazen
- Is it possible to focus just on Dogen?
- Slacking at work
- Jundo is in the new issue of Tricycle
- A Review: Discovering the True Self: Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation
- Fear: The Rock Climber's Amygdala
- Invitation: Our Shukke Tokudo Homeleaving Ordination of Ralf Kotei Prehn - SUNDAY!
- Rohatsu Retreat Information Posted!
- A Special Zazenkai this Friday, Honoring our LGBTQ+ Ancestors
- ATTTENTION: Request for Rakusu Mailing Addresses has been Posted!
- When our world turns upside down
- Gudo Wafu Nishijima
- Half-way Zen
- How should I choose the Zen practice to commit to?
- ATTENTION: Special Zazenkai December 27th, with Heiku Jaime Mcleod
- Thoughts about thoughts
- Chanting with Compromised Eyesight
- Present Moment
- The Jukai Ceremony
- Does Shikantaza equal full trust in life itself?
- Stuck in mind mud
- Yin Yang of Genjokoan
- What is "silent annihilation"?
- Zen Mind, Struggling Mind
- Invitation to a mini Rohatsu with the Spanish speaking sangha. 12/19/2020 via Zoom
- Diverse voices
- How does Zazen feel?
- What's in a name?
- Zazen and everyday life
- Two Treeleaf Holiday Specials
- Finish year end Sesshin and ready for new year!
- Kodo Sawaki on Transparent self