Will and I spent a few hours sitting Zazen with the weekly public Sunday Zazenkai at Sojiji monastery. I could not take a camera into the sitting, but we say “hi” (below) and were sitting with everyone at Treeleaf anyway. Sojiji is one of the two head temples of the Soto School in Japan (with…

We are having another special Zazenkai tonight for two hours, in honor of Will’s visit … a “Will-zenkai” (we just had our “Hans-zenkai” last week)! We will sit 2 periods of about 40 minute Zazen, with 10 minute Kinhin. We close with the Verse of Atonement and Four Vows. Specially for tonight, our “Heart Sutra”…

Today, we are joined by one of these“William Barry’s”‘ … … but which“William Barry”??? Saturday, look for a special, 2-hour “Will-zenkai” … to be LIVE in the Sitting Room and on Ustream (look for details here) commencing at 10:00 pm Japan time … Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE…

While Hans is visiting Treeleaf from Germany, I took him on a hike of our local mountain … Mt. Tsukuba. It is one of Japan’s ‘Great Mountains’ … You can read all about “Tsukuba-san” here: Mt. Tsukuba Wiki So, please sit with Hans and me next to a really grand ‘ol ancient rock Click on…

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