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Welcome to our Saturday “Live from Treeleaf” Zazen, We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart Sutra in ENGLISH, then sit about 40 minutes of Zazen, then 10 minutes of Kinhin, closing with the chant of the “Verse of Atonement” and “Four Vows”. Please join in, one and all. Gassho,…

‘Right Mindfulness’ of ‘things without’ is an awareness and understanding of the events that surround us in the present moment, seeing clearly phenomena as they arise and how we perceive them. We experience how our inner condition, our thoughts and emotions, help create our experience of the world without. We learn to discern the nature…

. The seventh branch of the ‘Eightfold Path‘ is ‘Right Mindfulness’ … It may be termed a ‘mindfulness‘ of things within and things without (though those are not truly ‘two’. We will talk about ‘things without‘ tomorrow). ‘Right Mindfulness’ of things within includes being attentive to our inner conditions, the causes and workings of the…

. The sixth branch of the ‘Eightfold Path‘ is ‘Right Effort’ … It is the effort to put into Practice the links of the Path within our life … to keep on keepin’ on. We persevere, even those times when we just don’t feel like making the effort. “Right Intention” is the aspiration to do…
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