{"id":207,"date":"2008-07-13T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2008\/07\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-sojiji.html"},"modified":"2008-07-13T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T08:10:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-sojiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2008\/07\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-sojiji.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Sojiji"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>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. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
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Sojiji is one of the two head temples of the Soto School in Japan (with Eiheiji), and is pretty much the Vatican of Soto Zen. It is a training center for hundreds of monks each year.<\/span> Here is a link to more information about Sojiji than you probably need: <\/em>SOJIJI<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n


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