{"id":303,"date":"2008-02-07T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2008\/02\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-zazen-fo-14.html"},"modified":"2008-02-07T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T21:21:00","slug":"sit-a-long-with-jundo-zazen-fo-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2008\/02\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-zazen-fo-14.html","title":{"rendered":"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Zazen for Beginners (We&#8217;re All Beginners) XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">.<br \/><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.khandro.net\/images\/bodidrma.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 271px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.khandro.net\/images\/bodidrma.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The 1st Zen Patriarch in China, Master <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bodhidharma<\/span>, is reputed to have described Zen this way &#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">A special transmission outside the scriptures;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Not dependent upon words and letters;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Directly pointing to the human mind<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Seeing into one&#8217;s own nature<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">and Buddhahood<\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><\/span><span style=\";font-family:Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;font-size:130%;\"  ><span style=\"font-family:Comic Sans MS;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The series of sittings on the theme of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8216;Four Noble Truths&#8217; <\/span>and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8216;Eightfold Path&#8217; <\/span>begins <a style=\"color: rgb(153, 153, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/treeleafzen.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/sit-long-with-jundo-four-noble-truths-i.html\">HERE<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><embed flashvars=\"autoplay=false\" src=\"http:\/\/ustream.tv\/2JyXb6pVXjA5vXl.QhcSAZ.VBYK3cgTY.usv\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"340\" width=\"416\"><\/embed><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/>Press on arrow for &#8216;play&#8217;<br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">PLEASE UPDATE FLASH.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treeleaf.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=294\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">SEE HERE<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"\" bold=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. The 1st Zen Patriarch in China, Master Bodhidharma, is reputed to have described Zen this way &#8230; A special transmission outside the scriptures; Not dependent upon words and letters; Directly pointing to the human mind Seeing into one&#8217;s own nature and Buddhahood The series of sittings on the theme of the &#8216;Four Noble Truths&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guided-meditation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Zazen for Beginners (We&#039;re All Beginners) XV - Treeleaf Zen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2008\/02\/sit-a-long-with-jundo-zazen-fo-14.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Zazen for Beginners (We&#039;re All Beginners) XV - Treeleaf Zen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\". 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