Posts by TTSangha

Drain the tank — a talk by Leland Shields (July 12, 2025)

Posted by on Jul 15, 2025 in Zen Talks | Comments Off on Drain the tank — a talk by Leland Shields (July 12, 2025)

Dogen; Zazen Universally Recommended …Therefore, stop your intellectual exercise of investigating words and chasing after talk; study the reverse way, turn the light and shine it back. Body and mind will drop away of themselves, and your original face will appear. If you want such an experience, exert yourselves urgently… (Version by Robert Aitken, based on the translation by Carl Bielefeldt, Dōgen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation, 1988.) With breath, mu, hearing, we give ourselves over. Exhale, while sitting upright, back straight and chest open. Inhale. Giving ourselves over to this...

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Zenkai (August 10, 2025) with Madelon – In Person and Zoom

Posted by on Jul 5, 2025 in Beginner Zen Meditation, Meditation Retreat | Comments Off on Zenkai (August 10, 2025) with Madelon – In Person and Zoom

Three Treasures Sangha will hold this event in-person at our Dharma Gate facility and live by Zoom. Registration information (for in-person) and current Covid-19 Guidelines are posted below the schedule. Guidelines are likely to change before the event, so check again as the date gets closer. If you are able, please join all or part of this opportunity for intensive practice with others. Zoom Link: Send email to ttssangha@gmail.com. If this will be your first event with TTS, we will arrange for an orientation prior to...

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Practice and Teaching – TTS and the Diamond Sangha — a talk by Leland Shields, June 8, 2025

Posted by on Jun 8, 2025 in Zen Talks | Comments Off on Practice and Teaching – TTS and the Diamond Sangha — a talk by Leland Shields, June 8, 2025

Practice and Teaching – TTS and the Diamond Sangha Diamond Sangha Teachers Meeting, Ring of Bone, 2025 Leland Shields, June 8, 2025 I saw myself a ring of bone in the clear stream of all of it   and vowed, always to be open to it that all of it   might flow through and then heard “ring of bone” where ring is what a   bell does – Lew Welch (1926-1971) Today I’d like to talk about the meeting of American Diamond Sangha teachers that I attended at the Ring of Bone Zendo in the rural foothills of the Sierra Nevada, northeast of Sacramento. The poem I read a moment ago is a...

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Zenkai (June 8, 2025) with Lee – In Person and Zoom

Posted by on May 1, 2025 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Zenkai (June 8, 2025) with Lee – In Person and Zoom

Three Treasures Sangha will hold this event in-person at our Dharma Gate facility and live by Zoom. Registration information (for in-person) and current Covid-19 Guidelines are posted below the schedule. Guidelines are likely to change before the event, so check again as the date gets closer. If you are able, please join all or part of this opportunity for intensive practice with others. Zoom Link: Send email to ttssangha@gmail.com. If this will be your first event with TTS, we will arrange for an...

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3-Day Zenkai with Lee and Madelon (July 11-13, 2025) In person and Zoom

Posted by on Apr 11, 2025 in Meditation Retreat | Comments Off on 3-Day Zenkai with Lee and Madelon (July 11-13, 2025) In person and Zoom

With Lee Shields and Madelon Bolling Many of us have regimented lives, with infrequent opportunities to ask, with an open mind, how we might deepen practice. Traditionally, Zen training included disciplined training periods alternating with periods of greater free time or travel, even as the spirit and dedication of practice continued. A personal retreat has potential for profound richness that can be taken home thereafter. And a personal retreat has its own practice challenges: how will you express your practice if you are released from aspects of form? Separate from good and bad student,...

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