New to Treeleaf?
If you’re considering joining the sangha and are wondering where to begin, this is it. Joining Treeleaf is a couple of clicks away, whether you want to hop right in for live practice on Zoom, or you’d like to join our discussion forum. Below, you’ll see a step-by-step guide of the forum registration process. Throughout the signup process, we’d like to invite you to join via Zoom one of our Weekly Zazenkai where you can meet other members and you can get a taste of our practice style here. Whenever you’re ready…
New to Zen?
If you’re just discovering Buddhism as practiced in the Zen tradition, we have a dedicated section to help you find reliable information, so you don’t need to sift through all of the dubious and sometimes quite erroneous information available online.
If you want to learn more, please visit our BEGINNER’S PLACE.
FOLLOW THE GUIDE TO JOIN TREELEAF FORUM
New to Zazen?
Here are some basic instructions and pointers for sitting daily Zazen. After you read the following introduction to sitting Zazen, please watch our special series of video Talks for Beginners on the forum (we are all beginners).
Fukan Zazengi
In our tradition, the best description of how to sit Zazen comes from Master Dogen, the teacher who first brought the Soto Zen Lineage from China to Japan in the 13th Century. Please find our link to the text of the Fukanzazengi below.
Please do consider watching our Series of “Talks for Beginners” after reading the Zazen instructions.