The Origin of the Name "Treeleaf"

[Yugen]

φύλλo δέντρων - fyllo-dentron

Treeleaf in Greek


Gassho
Yugen

[Kyonin]

Wouldn't it be Zendo Hoja de Árbol?

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That is correct! But since the original meaning implies that both tree and leaf are one, I fused both words

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Kyonin]

Jundo:

How do you say Treeleaf in Japanese? Is there a kanji for that?

[Jundo]

Jundo:

How do you say Treeleaf in Japanese? Is there a kanji for that?

Yes, it is Konoha Zendo. Nishijima Roshi wrote the name in Kanji for us, which is on our homepage. One point is that Nishijima Roshi may not have understood about the "Treeleaf" without a possessive, so the Japanese Kanji are Ko (Tree) "No (Possessive, similar to "de" in Spanish) and Ha (Leaf). And then I was too polite to point it out and ask him to change it. Oh well. It then occurred to me that I could simply take the "No" out of the image of his composition, and make it Koha Zendo, but do not want to change the integrity of his composition and Japanese folks tell me the sound is not so natural in Japanese. So, I leave it be ...

... nothing to fix, and in Emptiness, possessives are non-possessive!

[Oheso]

“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." -AW

[Myosha]

Wonderful quote - question: AW = Andy Warhol?!?

Really curious. Thanks for the lesson.


Gassho,
Edward

[Oheso]

sorry Edward. Warhol's a good guess, but this one's Alan Watts.

gassho, Robert

[Koshin]

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.

Will make a tshirt with that one
Gassho


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[chicanobudista]

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.

En enchiladas o quesadillas, siempre.

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[Dojin]

Thank you Jundo for this little clarification. its always nice to know the back story of things like that

also if someone wants to know who how it would sound in Russian or Hebrew...

Hebrew - Ale (leaf) etz (tree) it would most likely be said or written that way since it sounds more natural in Hebrew to say the leaf first, at least it does to me...
Russian - derevnoy (it means of a tree, the word tree is just dereva, but the word used would be to describe the fact its a tree's leaf) list (leaf, could also mean a sheet, therefor the explanation on the kind of leaf. it could also mean a sheet of paper or even a metal sheet, depends on the second word).

pretty pointless but still...

Gassho, Dojin.