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    SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Yes! No! Sometimes! NEVER! 

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    Published on 07-01-2014 11:51 PM  Number of Views: 6852 
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    A friend wrote today confessing that he skips or misses Zazen some days, and finds it easier sometimes to let the Precepts be his guide. He said:

    I may not be able to settle my mind enough to do zazen, but my troubled mind does well working through
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    SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: The Stories of the Buddha's Birth 

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    Published on 04-13-2014 03:35 AM  Number of Views: 2629 
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    April 8th is traditionally celebrated as Buddha's Birthday in Japan!


    A funny thing about Buddha's Birthday in Japanese Buddhism ... it is on a different day from the day in most of the rest of Asian Buddhism, where the date varies year by year and the holiday is known as "Vesak". Vesak in Japan (known ...
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    SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Opening Our Treeleaf Global Service Days: January 11-25 2014 

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    Published on 01-10-2014 09:54 PM  Number of Views: 2265 
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    We are pleased to commence our latest GLOBAL DAYS OF SERVICE initiative here at Treeleaf, January 11-25 2014. We will be asking each and all of our Treeleaf folks, in some way, to spend a day making their communities, the lives of others, ...
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    SIT-A-LONG with Jundo - TO ALL SOLO PRACTITIONERS: Don't Be A Selfish Pratyeka-buddha 

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    Published on 08-18-2013 12:22 AM  Number of Views: 7836 
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    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 ...
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    SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: WHOLENESS 

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    WHOLENESS ...




         ... WHOLENESS




    ... so whole that saying "wholeness" in unneeded.




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    SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: FINGER WAGGING at SOTO TEACHERS & STUDENTS 

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

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    Published on 02-18-2013 12:13 AM  Number of Views: 4428 
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    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 ...
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