as is the Tree & the leaves of the Tree

About the Book

We are, each man and woman, as a unique, glistening leaf. We spring from, we are the Tree which is this World. The Tree is wild, ever changing, the source of all that is. In life's twists and turns. Rarely does it go, grow just as we might wish.

But by new ways of seeing, by accepting nature's arising and retreat, allowing life to move as it moves, we unite with the Tree just 'as it is,' as what it is. We let life be

Such is liberation.

About the Author

Yacob Cohen is a Zen teacher and priest in the Soto tradition, founder of the Komazawa Zendo in Tokyo. In addition to his own writings, he is a translator of Buddhist and other works from the Japanese language.