Treeleaf Zendo
an all-digital practice place for Zen practitioners who cannot easily commute to a Zen Center due to health concerns, living in remote areas, or childcare, work, and family needs, and seeks to provide Zazen sittings, retreats, discussion, interaction with a teacher, and all other activities of a Soto Zen Buddhist Sangha. The focus is Shikantaza “Just Sitting” Zazen as instructed by the 13th-century Japanese master, Eihei Dogen.
Treeleaf Sangha is a multicultural Zen Buddhist Community opened in 2006 in which people of all socio-economic classes, nationalities, races, ages, creeds, genders, sexual orientation and identification, and physical abilities discover shared humanity by direct experience of one another’s lives. We are open to all.
We commit ourselves to cultivating a practice in diversity and multiculturalism by incorporating into our practice the dissolving of all barriers that perpetuate the suffering of separation, prejudice, and discrimination. We intend to expand and develop our awareness of the ways we are conditioned to separate ourselves by socioeconomic class, nationality, race, age, creed, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability and other forms of identity.
Many Treeleaf Sangha priests are members of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association.
NOTICE BOARD
- August 8th – New Treeleaf Podcast Episode Available
- August 13th – Treeleaf’s Ango practice period announced, sign-ups open
- August 30th – Monthly Ryaku Fusatsu
PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES
Find out how and when you can join the sangha for practice
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Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai
Join the sangha for practice at our weekly zazenkai. We begin with a short service, then sit for two periods…
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Treeleaf Monthly Zazenkai
Join the sangha for our long monthly zazenkai. This meeting lasts for 3 hours, and it includes a long ceremony,…
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Treeleaf Monthly Ryaku Fusatsu
From the time of the early Buddhist sangha, monks and nuns would gather at the time of the full and…
Ango Practice Period 2026
Join the sangha for this year’s fall practice period, starting in September. You can also sign up for Jukai, to receive the bodhisattva Precepts. Click on the images below for more information and to sign up!
Ango 2026 Sign Up and Information
Jukai 2026 Sign Up and Information
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Beyond Words and Letters Book Club : Stories of the Lotus Sutra by Gene Reeves
Join Treeleaf’s Book Club reading of Gene Reeve’s “Stories of the Lotus Sutra”.
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Treeleaf Special Event: Guest Speaker, Prof. Steven Heine, PhD
On Sunday, May 17th, we have the honor of welcoming Professor Steven Heine as our guest speaker. A longtime Treeleaf…
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Treeleaf Special Event: Guest Teacher, Rev. Hōdo Gomoku
Rev. Hōdo Gomoku, Soto Zen Priest and vice abbot of the Dublin Zen Center, is coming for a special event…
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2026 Spring Retreat
|events 2026 Spring Retreat Arousing and Maintaining the Mind of Awakening Dear sangha members and friends, we will have our…
Daily Practice
The Practice Calendar offers a complete list of all the daily sittings we offer at Treeleaf, plus all the regular weekly and monthly events, and anything else scheduled. You are invited to join anything that fits your schedule. No experience is needed.
Staying Connected
At Treeleaf, we constantly try to find ways to connect with each other and to engage more with Zen practice as an expression of every day life. Have a look at some of our practice groups, focused on different topics.
Retreats and Events
Treeleaf has a rich practice schedule that includes daily zazen, weekly and monthly Zazenkai, which include liturgy and Dharma talks, yearly retreats, held fully online. You can find details about these events by clicking below
Roshi Jundo Cohen:
Ending the War, Within, Without
AN OFFERING
from
ROSHI JUNDO COHEN
For folks who might be feeling particularly confused, angry, sad, hopeless or frightened at current events in the news:
Encountering the wars in the world, in our life, with clarity and stillness within.
Encountering the wars in the world, in our life, with turmoil, confusion, a war within.
One war may be beyond our control, but the other is not.
In fact, there is no “within” apart from “without,” no outside, no inside.
Treeleaf Zendo Podcast
New episode available
BODHISATTVAS IN ACTION
Until peace and sanity return, so that our Treeleaf members and visiting friends may show their support for everyone in this world affected by war, especially our friend and Ukrainian priest Washin and other Zen practitioners in the Ukraine Sangha or from other places where armed conflict makes life challenging, we invite everyone to join us for peaceful sitting every Sunday. The event is hosted by our priests Washin and Kotei.
The sitting period is 40 minutes, and we chant together the Heart Sutra in various languages, including Ukrainian and Russian.
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Bodhisattva Action: Lending a Hand
We ask our members who come to our forum, to only do so after they have dedicated a “Lend-A-Hand” act of charity, aid and good works, whether big or small, within the prior 24 hours…
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Treeleaf’s Engaged and Charitable Projects Center
A Treeleaf forum for the creative development of charitable and socially engaged projects and practices seeking to aid and assist our fellow sentient beings in this world. We will introduce from time to time…
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One Plate, One Planet
| Get Involved If you’re looking for a simple way to start taking action now, to do something that can benefit the entire planet, here’s a suggestion from a Treeleaf sangha member. Our friend…
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Dharma Transmission of Kandō Bion
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Jundo Cohen Roshi announces the Dharma Transmission of Kando Bion, now recognized as a fully ordained priest and teacher in…
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2026 Home-Leaving Ordination of Dōgaku and Seikan
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We are very content to make this announcement, and ask everyone sitting with our sangha to join in its celebration. Our…
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Jukai Ceremony at Treeleaf Sangha
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Our 2026 Treeleaf Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts) Celebration was held on Sunday, January 18th!
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In Loving Memory of Kōjitsu Brett Williams
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Our friend Koji was an example of resilience, endurance and dedication to the practice of the dharma. He was always…
DHARMA
Lessons, preachings, and beseechings by Jundo and our priests
Freedom
Dharma Talk from Kotei
Emptiness is not the absence of reality; it is the absence of necessity. In this Dharma Talk, Kotei looks at our practice, emptiness, dependent arising, and the Precepts through the lens of “freedom”.
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Freedom
Emptiness is not the absence of reality; it is the absence of necessity.
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Don’t Sit for Any Length of Time. Don’t Sit to Be Happy. Don’t Sit for Yourself.
Human beings must live by clock and calendar, especially today. We must rise in the morning, get to the train, get to work, to the…
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Sitting Zazen as Sitting Buddha
One shines just to shine, but often shining requires hard work! Things are just as they are, but frequently that means that things just ain’t so good!…
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Seeing I to I
When all the borders and labels are dropped, all is known and experienced (it is VITAL to experience and actually taste and see and feel…
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Sacred Sitting
Please sit as a sacred act. Sit Zazen as a holy (wholey) ritual. Sit with faith that just this sitting is a complete doing, nothing…
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Sit Zazen as a Photon
Some time ago, I learned a strange fact about time: The photon, because it is light, travelling by definition at the speed of light, is…
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Jundo Offers: The Answer to -All- Complaints about Zazen
In Just Sitting, one can leap through the little self’s selfish wants and desires to a wholeness free of all little wants and desires. The wholeness…
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Hard Way, Gentle Way, Middle Way, Non-Way
Whether hard path or gentle path, this path is ultimately a non-path of non-practice. There is ultimately nothing to attain that has not been here…