Sunday Weekly Zazenkai (European morning)

[Bion]

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately I couldn’t be with you yesterday, but I sat with you through the recording. Thank you all...

Bion, thank you so much for this wonderful talk. You helped me put my thoughts in order and turn them from mental ideas into lived experience — something I can actually feel in the body.

For someone like me, who often over-analyzes the teachings, this turning of “thinking” into “heart-understanding” feels like the medicine my practice needs.
I am sorry I also missed the Tea House — I imagine the “party” continued there as well.

Gassho,
Tasos
sat/lah

We did miss you! I´ll ask you later about the retreat!

Gassho
sat lah

[Kiri]

Thank you so much for today's zazenkai everyone!

It's been many months since the last time I practiced with Treeleaf, so I particularly enjoyed it!

Gassho, Kiri

Sat

[Kotei]

Thank you so much for today's zazenkai everyone!

It's been many months since the last time I practiced with Treeleaf, so I particularly enjoyed it!

Gassho, Kiri

Sat

Thank you so much for coming Kiri.
Good to see you!
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Bion]

Thank you so much for today's zazenkai everyone!

It's been many months since the last time I practiced with Treeleaf, so I particularly enjoyed it!

Gassho, Kiri

Sat

oh!!! I missed you on the screen! DIDN´T SEE YOU! So glad you were able to come!

Gassho
sat lah

[Bion]

Dear friends, I hope you decide to join us for practice tomorrow morning. Get you a nice, warm blanket and come sit for an hour to start your Sunday!

Gassho
sat lah

[Kotei]

I am looking forward to coming together tomorrow morning for another Sunday Zazenkai!
Last one before the Rohatsu weekend next week, where we will pause both Zazenkai.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Bion]

A reminder that this coming Sunday, the 4th, our zazenkai includes the dharma talk and discussion, so we begin at 9 am CET (8 am UK), rather than our usual weekly time. More details at the top of this thread and also on the Zazenkai page:

https://www.treeleaf.org/2025/03/weekly-zazenkai/

See you all in a couple of days

Gassho
sat lah

[Bion]

For those of you who migth like to recall Dogen Zenji's poem that I commented on last Sunday, and the accompanying ones from Rengetsu, here they are:

"25-C - One of six verses composed in An’yoin Temple in Fukakusa, 1230:

Drifting pitifully in the whirlwind of birth and death,
As if wandering in a dream,
In the midst of illusion, I awaken to the true path;
There is one more matter I must not neglect,
But I need not bother now,
As I listen to the sound of the evening rain
Falling on the roof of my temple retreat
In the deep grass of Fukakusa."

The accompanying text from Eihey Koroku:

"The sun is setting on this year, and we meet the spring. The causes and conditions of birth and death, how they disturb people!
Take up the thousand differences and ten thousand distinctions, and make them one, letting go of subject and object."

And the Rengetsu poems:

"I count off the days remaining
Until spring arrives
But I know that
I will greet the New Year
A little more stooped"

"Clearing out
The dust and grime
In my heart as well
I try to make everything spotless
At the end of the year"

Gassho
sat lah

[Kotei]

Hello fellow Sunday Zazenkai sitters.

Just a heads up for this week.
We'll start half an hour early, because following the Friday/Sunday Zazenkai's rhythm we will have our monthly one, too.
We'll chant the Japanese Heart Sutra and the Identity of Relative and Absolute and we'll have a little talk.

Looking forward to it!
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Bion]

Second reminder, Euro folks.. We meet at 9 am CET or 8am UK tomorrow morning!

Gassho
sat lah

[Kotei]

Hello dear Sunday Zazenkai sitters,

just a little reminder that following the Friday/Saturday Zazenkai, we will have our monthly this weekend, too.
We will meet already at 9 am CET (8am UK) on Sunday.

The beginning time is anchored in CET.
If you are visiting from the US or another country already switching to DST this weekend, keep in mind that the beginning time will shift an hour for you.
Please double-check with the calendar.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.