TREELEAF ZENDO PODCAST

TREELEAF ZENDO PODCAST episodes:

• 05.04.2024

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Keizan Zenji's 'Zazen-Yojinki' (3)

  This week, Master Keizan offers practical advice, relevant even today, although some bits maybe more suited to the 13th Century, on one's life surrounding Zazen Practice. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum: Treeleaf Sangha's...

  
• 04.07.2024

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Keizan Zenji's Zazen-Yojinki (2)

  We continue our series on Master Keizan's 'Zazen-Yōjinki'or 'Notes to Keep in Heart for Zazen' Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:HERE»

  
• 03.03.2024

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Keizan Zenji's Zazen-Yojinki (1)

  Master Keizan, considered with Master Dogen one of the two "Founders" of Soto Zen in Japan, lived from 1264 to 1325. His essay “Zazen-Yōjinki” might be considered an expansion and further exploration of Dogen's explanation of Zazen, the 'Fukanzazengi'. The...

  
• 02.09.2024

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Dedication of Merit

  Today's Talk will reflect on our "Dedication of Merit", which we recite each time, but maybe without looking closely Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Dedication of Merit»

  
• 01.07.2024

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Genjokoan Series (6)

  This is the sixth (and last) in our monthly series based on the modernized translation of the Genjo Koan, from Jundo's book "The Zen Master's Dance" A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe. Today a...

  
• 11.07.2023

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Genjo Koan Series (5)

  Today, we find enlightenment in EVERY aspect of this world, even the hard parts we do not welcome. And we find enlightenment in how we live in this world, finding our own role Further reading and discussion for this talk are...

  
• 10.10.2023

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Genjo Koan Series (4)

  We continue our series on Genjo Koan, 'Realizing the Truth Right Here,' and the way of Bodhidharma found there. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Remember Bodhidharma Day!

  
• 09.03.2023

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Genjo Koan Series (3)

  This time, we will be looking at passages of Genjokoan based on the modernized translation from 'THE ZEN MASTER’S DANCE A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe' in light of our Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts)...

  
• 08.05.2023

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Genjo Koan Series (2)

  Practitioners sometimes think that enlightenment is the endpoint of practice rather than an ongoing series of daily actions that are each an opportunity to manifest either ignorant or enlightened behavior. They think that they must get to a perpetually blissful...

  
• 07.09.2023

  Treeleaf Zendo Podcast - Genjo Koan Series (1)

  We Start of New Series on Genjo Koan, 'Realizing the Truth Right Here," the Key to Master Dogen's Zen. The text for the talk today, the first in a monthly series, is based on Jundo Cohen´s modernized translation of the...

  
• 06.29.2023

  Shikantaza Ipso Facto

  The following is an audio version of the essay with the same title by Treeleaf Sangha founder and guiding teacher, Roshi Jundo Cohen ¨One must sit Shikantaza with profound trust that sitting is whole, complete, nothing lacking, the sitting of the...

  
• 06.19.2023

  The Elephant In The Zazen Room

  The following is an audio recording of an essay by Treeleaf founder and guiding teacher, Jundo Cohen. Here's the "elephant in the room" of Shikantaza Zazen: What does it mean to "think-non-thinking?" In ordinary life, our daily minds resemble a mad...

  
• 06.03.2023

  June 2023 Zazenkai Talk - Nyorai Zenshin (A Mini-Lesson in Dogen Jazz)

  Today we'll scat with Dogen's jazz in Shobogenzo Nyorai Zenshin (The Buddha Whole Body). Some 700 or so years before modern jazz folks, Dōgen had the equivalent jazzy approach, taking “standard” Mahayana Buddhist teachings, fanciful but traditional Buddhist images, and...

  
• 05.24.2023

  The ’Inner Switch’ Of Zazen

  The following is an audio recording of an article by Treeleaf founder and guiding teacher, Jundo Cohen. "So much of all life is like a neutral canvas to which we add our judgments and reactions, coloring it with our feelings. It...

  
• 05.07.2023

  May 2023 Monthly Zazenkai Talk (Shinjinmei Series Part 5)

  In Today's Talk, will close our dance with the 信心銘, the Xinxinming, or Shinjinmei. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:May 5th-6th, 2023 -OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI

  
• 04.08.2023

  April 2023 Monthly Zazenkai Talk (Shinjinmei Series Part 4)

  Our Zazenkai today is in celebration of the Buddha´s birthday, traditionally April 8th in Japan! We will look at the Buddha's birthday and the Shinjinmei Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:April 7-8, 2023 -OUR...

  
• 03.04.2023

  March 2023 Monthly Zazenkai Talk (Shinjinmei Series Part 3)

  Today's Talk will be the third in a series reflecting on: THE SONG OF TRUST MIND (信心銘 Shinjinmei), A Key to Zazen Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:March 3rd-4th, 2023 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour...

  
• 02.04.2023

  February 2023 Monthly Zazenkai Talk (Shinjinmei Series, part 2)

  In Today's Talk, we continue our dance with the 信心銘, called the Xinxinming in Chinese and the Shinjinmei in Japanese, and by a variety of names in English Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:February...

  
• 01.07.2023

  January 2023 Monthly Zazenkai Talk ( Shinjinmei Series, part 1)

  CELEBRATING THIS EVER NEW YEAR! Today's Talk will be the first in a series reflecting on: THE SONG OF TRUST MIND (信心銘 Shinjinmei), A Key to Zazen Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:Jan 6-7th,...

  
• 12.10.2022

  Treeleaf Rohatsu 2022 Dharma Talks - Menzan Zuiho Osho’s Jijuyu Zanmai

  Our Dharma Talks this time will feature Rev. Kokuu and Rev. Jinkan, presenting their first Teachings upon and in celebration of their Dharma Transmission in our Lineage. Other Talks will feature our newest ordained priests, Koushi, Onkai and Nengei, as...

  
• 11.05.2022

  November 2022 Zazenkai Talk (OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS in EUROPE)

  Today's Talk will reflect on Master Keizan's "Middle Way, Beyond Hope to Attain" and "No Entering, No Emerging Samadhi" Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:Nov. 4-5th, 2022 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI -...

  
• 10.08.2022

  October 2022 Zazenkai Talk ( OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Menzan in the Mirror )

  Today's Talk will reflect on Mirror Mind by Master Menzan from his Jijuyu-Zanmai Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:Oct. 7th-8th, 2022 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Menzan in the Mirror»

  
• 09.04.2022

  September 2022 Zazenkai Talk ( OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Commencing JUKAI & ANGO! )

  Our Zazenkai is in Special Celebration and Welcome of the Commencement of our 2022 ANGO & JUKAI Season! Today's talk will reflect on redemption, Icchantikas and 'Broken Ladles' Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:Sept....

  
• 08.06.2022

  August 2022 Zazenkai Talk (OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf Zazenkai - Keizan’s Sankon Zazen Setsu)

  Our talk today is on ''Sankon Zazen Setsu: Three Kinds of Zazen Practitioners' by Keizan Zenji. Which is better, Soto or Rinzai, Shikantaza or Koan Instrospection? Both! Neither! In fact, the medicine depends on the needs of the patient. Further reading...

  
• 07.03.2022

  July 2022 Zazenkai Talk (OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Ho-i - 法位 - Dharma Position)

  Today's talk is on a seemingly arcane bit of Buddhist Teachings, positioned well to aid us in living.Dharma Position is mentioned in the Lotus Sutra, "The Dharmas Dwell in their Dharma Position". It is an important teaching of Japanese Tendai...

  
• 06.04.2022

  June 2022 Zazenkai Talk (OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI) - Farewell, Vimalakirti

  Today, a final visit with the Vimalakirti Sutra. We end our series of talks on the Vimalakirti Sutra with the following visit to Buddha, from (mostly) Chapter 12 Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:June...

  
• 05.13.2022

  May 2022 Zazenkai Talk (OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Dharma-Door of Non-duality) Vimalakirti Sutra Series

  Today we will again walk through the Door of the Vimalakirti Sutra. Here, at Gate 9, we again find many very excellent responses by a bunch of very wise Bodhisattvas (after all, they are big time Bodhisattvas, so not amateurs!...

  
• 03.12.2022

  March 2022 Zazenkai Talk (OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Wisdom Amid Confusion) Vimalakirti Sutra Series

  Today's Talk will reflect on a rather strange and bewildering portion of the Vimalakirti Sutra This time, we will look at a very strange, seemingly two-faced passage from Chapter 8 of the Vimalakirti Sutra ... but is that what it...

  
• 02.12.2022

  February 2022 Zazenkai Talk (OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Vimalakirti Sutra Series)

  Today's Talk will reflect on Living Beings within Chapter 7 of the Vimalakirti Sutra. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:February 4th-5th, 2022 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI»

  
• 01.01.2022

  January 2022 Zazenkai Talk (Our 2021-2022 NEW YEAR’s EVE 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Vimalakirti Sutra Series)

  Today's Talk will reflect on more magical happenings from the Vimalakirti Sutra. Pull up a chair for a little reading of a magical tale, as Vimalakirti arranges the furniture ... Chapter 6: BEYOND COMPREHENSION Further reading and discussion for this talk...

  
• 11.30.2021

  November 2021 Zazenkai Talk ( OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Vimalakirti Sutra Series)

  Today's Talk will reflect on more Wondrous Passages from the Vimalakirti Sutra. Vimalakirti continues his undefeated record, taking on all contenders ... in Round 4: the Bodhisattvas Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:November 5th-6th,...

  
• 11.11.2021

  October 2021 Zazenkai Talk (OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Vimalakirti Sutra Series)

  Today's Talk will reflect on Further Passages from the Vimalakirti Sutra, chapter III (the Arhats) ... We will see further examples of how this tale seeks to blend an idealized view of the Bodhisattva with life on earth, in this...

  
• 10.14.2021

  September 2021 Zazenkai Talk (Commencement of 2021 ANGO & JUKAI Season - Vimalakirti Sutra Series)

  Today's Talk will reflect on passages from the Vimalakirti Sutra.    One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years, the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out because unlike most sutras, its central figure is not a Buddha but a wealthy...

  
• 03.21.2021

  March 2021 Zazenkai Talk (The Heart Sutra Part II)

  We will continue our series of reflections on the Heart Sutra (Hannya Shingyo). Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:March 5th-6th OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI »

  
• 02.14.2021

  February 2021 Zazenkai Talk (The Heart Sutra Part I)

  Our Talk this week will look at the mysterious 'missing parts' of the Heart Sutra (Hannya Shingyo 般若心経), as the first in a series of monthly reflections on ... the Heart Sutra! The Tibetan version of the Heart Sutra contains the...

  
• 01.06.2021

  January 2021 Zazenkai Talk (New Year Reflections on Poems and Teachings by Daichi Zenji)

  OUR NEW YEARS TALK will be based on the Poems and Teachings of Daichi Zenji (1290-1366) who became a monk under 寒巌義尹 Kangan Giin (1217-1300) who was himself a disciple of Dogen Zenji. After Kangan's death Daichi visited various teachers...

  
• 11.20.2020

  November 2020 Zazenkai Talk (Book Tour Kickoff)

  We will look today at one passage of Master Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji (Being-Time), rapping and riffing on a famous Koan. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:Nov 6-7 2020 OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI- Book...

  
• 10.25.2020

  October 2020 Zazenkai Talk (The Verse of Atonement & The Four Vows)

  The VERSE OF ATONEMENT All harmful acts, words and thoughts, ever committed by me since of old,On account of beginningless greed, anger and ignorance,Born of my body, mouth and mind,Now I atone for them all The FOUR VOWS To save all sentient beings,...

  
• 09.11.2020

  September 2020 Zazenkai Talk (Sept 4th-5th, 2020 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Commencing Jukai & Ango!)

  Our Zazenkai is in Special Celebration and Welcome of the Commencement of our 2020 ANGO & JUKAI Season Today's Talk will reflect on our "Dedication of Merit" Recital. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:Sept...

  
• 09.07.2020

  August 2020 Zazenkai Talk (July 31th-August 1st, 2020 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI)

  Our Talk today will be on a few Cases of the Book of Serenity. Koan 86: "Rinzai's Great Enlightenment" Koan 87: "Sozan's With or Without" Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:July 31th-August 1st, 2020 - OUR...

  
• 05.20.2020

  September 2019 Zazenkai Talk (Sept 6th-7th, 2019 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - COMMENCING JUKAI & ANGO!)

  Our Zazenkai is in Special Celebration and Welcome of the Commencement of our 2019 ANGO & JUKAI Season Today's Talk will reflect on "ANGO: NOW & THEN" - What is Ango in our day and time, for householders in the modern...

  
• 05.15.2020

  August 2019 Zazenkai Talk (SPECIAL SUNDAY Aug 4-5th - Our MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI)

  Our Talk today will be on a few Cases of the Book of Serenity that we recently danced in our "No Words" Book Club : Case 81 - Gensha Comes to the Province Further reading and discussion for this talk are...

  
• 07.21.2019

  July 2019 Zazenkai Talk - "Building a House and the Four Seals"

  Rev. Sekishi's talk on Building a House and the Four Seals: the four characteristics (or "seals") are sometimes seen as a sort of "litmus test" to see if a teaching reflects true Buddha Dharma. But they can also be viewed...

  
• 07.21.2019

  June 2019 Zazenkai Talk - "Bodhidharma's Outline of Practice"

  Rev. Kyonin's talk on the Outline of Practice of Master Bodhidharma (also known as the Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices/ 二入四行論) (Translated by Red Pine) MANY roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason...

  
• 07.21.2019

  May 2019 Zazenkai Talk - "Vesak and the Buddha's Birthday"

  Today's Talk is by Rev. Shokai, who will speaks on Vesak and the Buddha's Birthday. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:May 3rd-4th, 2019 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI! - featuring Shokai! »

  
• 07.16.2019

  March 2019 Zazenkai Talk - "IN THE NEWS!"

  Today's Talk will look at a variety of STORIES and ISSUES IN THE NEWS today. Recently, there has been much discussion in the Buddhist world about "leaving politics at the door" of the Buddhist Sangha, where we encounter a way...

  
• 01.13.2019

  January 2019 SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: THOUGHTS and EMOTIONS are GOOD ZAZEN too!

  I am going to say something that might be missed or not emphasized enough in many explanations of Shikantaza Zazen. (I apologize to any teachers who do in fact say this). In Shikantaza, trains of thought and stormy emotions might come....

  
• 01.07.2019

  Special New Year Zazenkai SATURDAY 1/5 with Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer is an American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1988. Fischer served...

  
• 11.13.2018

  November 2018 Zazenkai Talk (November 3rd-4th, 2018 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI!)

  Today's Talk is the second part (we began last month) of reflections on portions of the 'Tenzo Kyokun' (典座教訓) or "Instructions for the Cook," Master Dogen's celebration of work (作務) and all our responsibilities in life, as we continue our...

  
• 10.07.2018

  October 2018 Zazenkai Talk (October 5th-6th, 2018 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI!)

  Today's Talk will honor portions of Master Dogen's "Instructions for the Cook," a celebration of 'Samu' Work Practice and all our duties in life. Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:October 5th-6th, 2018 - OUR...