Treeleaf Zendo
A Soto Zen Sangha

Treeleaf Zendo is 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. Our focus is Shikantaza—“Just Sitting”—Zazen as instructed by the 13th Century Japanese Master, Eihei Dogen.

All of life is our temple.

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.

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Many Treeleaf Sangha priests are members of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association.

Practice Opportunities

Find out how and when you can join the sangha for practice

Daily Sits at Treeleaf

Check the Practice Calendar for a complete list of all the daily sits we offer at Treeleaf. You are invited to join anything that fits your schedule. No experience is needed.

Staying Connected

Sangha Practice Groups

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.

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Zen: At the Still Center of History’s Changes

A Message of Encouragement
from Roshi Jundo Cohen

Zen folks have witnessed many changes and swings through the centuries – the hard times and better times. We flow with the river’s flowing. We know that today is not the end, but just the beginning. We also know the unchanging wisdom which sees through it all …

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.

Find out how you can join this sitting:

Sunday Zazen for Peace, with Washin in Ukraine


Teacher Talks

Special lessons, preachings, and beseechings by Jundo and our Priests

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