The Origin of the Name "Treeleaf"

[Jundo]

Someone just wrote to ask me where the name "Treeleaf" came from.

I believe (it has been awhile since I thought about it) that it was just a simple image of the tree springing out from the root, branching in all directions to individual leaves ... yet root, trunk, branches and leaves are Not Two ... all just the Tree. Because "leaf" and "tree" are one beyond one, I went with "Treeleaf" and not "Tree Leaf".

The Sandokai (the Harmony of Relative and Absolute) which we chant each month at Zazenkai says ...

Thus for each and every thing,
according to the roots, the leaves spread forth.

Trunk and branches share the essence;

Thank you all for being an important leaf of the Tree.

Gassho, Jundo

[Hans]

Hello Jundo,

thank you for sharing this.

Maybe one day this Sangha will give rise to Beeleaf and Tealeaf as well

Gassho,

Hans Chudo Mongen

[Mp]

Beautiful Jundo, thank you for sharing this ... I never knew the thought behind the name.

Gassho
Shingen

[Myosha]

Thank you,


Gassho,
Edward

[Kyonin]

This is a great and complete teaching. Thank you, Jundo.

In Spanish it would translate something like Hojárbol.

Leaf = hoja

Tree = árbol

Zendo Hojárbol.

Sounds nice

Gassho,

Kyonin

[KellyRok]

Lovely explanation! I love the Spanish version too!

Gassho,
Kelly/Jinmei

[Myozan Kodo]

Great! Thank you Jundo. The seed of your imagination ripens.
Gassho,
Myozan

PS: this is all important when we sit down to write the sangha history one day...

[chicanobudista]

This is a great and complete teaching. Thank you, Jundo.

In Spanish it would translate something like Hojárbol.

Leaf = hoja

Tree = árbol

Zendo Hojárbol.

Sounds nice

Gassho,

Kyonin

Wouldn't it be Zendo Hoja de Árbol?

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[Joyo]

thank you for sharing, I like the name very much!

Gassho,
Treena

[Jundo]

Wouldn't it be Zendo Hoja de Árbol?

The tree is the leaf and the leaf is the tree, but one does not possess the other. ?De acquerdo?

[Nengyo]

My spanish is kind of rusty, but I figured I should throw my translation into the mix:

Zendo de las hojas de los arboles y los arboles de hoja. Un lugar donde los locos sempre dicen; no es uno y no es dos.

Tambien nos gustan los queso.

[Hans]

Hello,

the German word Baumblatt sounds rather cute to German ears.

Gassho,

Hans Chudo Mongen

[Myozan Kodo]

Love the Spanish. Love the German.

Here's the Irish: Duillecrann.
And, for my wife, the French: Feuilled'arbre!

Gassho
Myozan

[Risho]

now in my native tongue of pig latin: reetay eaflay. hahaah well it's one word so technically: reaLeaftay :P

Seriously, that is a very cool origin story.

Gassho,

Risho

[Tb]

Hi.

In swedish its trädlöv
in phonetic its similar to treadlove or traelove..

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