I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
You can still sit, any place or time, our Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... this time, welcoming Guest Teacher, Stone Roshi ...
You can also see Stone Roshi's "talk" here ... rock solid ... The Zen Wisdom of STONE ROSHI, a Guest Teacher at Treeleaf Sangha ...
Our own Kokuu offers a lovely, powerful reflection on Zazen ... in flesh and blood, not stone ... Zazen from the Bottom Up (Zazen pt II) ...
Good to say that Rev. Jinkan is back home ... with reflections on emulating Bodhisattvas Stuck In Bed ...
Shokai brought home another year of 108 Gates ... crossing the Goalless Goal Line ...
Announcement of another Guest Teacher coming to Treeleaf in two weeks ... Special Treeleaf Event: Zenki Mary Mocine - I Hate Donald Tr*** - (Sat) April 29th ... on how NOT to HATE in modern politics in many countries ...
A Conversation Between Two Zen Nuns on Gender and Equality ... (but a finger wag from me on some discrimination which continues
) ...
Tricycle, the Buddhist Journal, published one of my things ... Tricycle: New Article by Jundo Published ...
The thread that inspired Stone Roshi ... Rocks ...
Why bother getting up in the morning? ... our members offer endless reasons ...
Sitting Zazen in Unusual places ... but every place is the right place for Zazen ...
Zen of Everything Podcast ... Ep. 98 ... Flying Rabbits on the Moon ... I don't know what it is about ...
Have Hope! ... [Ecodharma) ACTIVE HOPE Chapter Six (part one) ...
Washin continues, week by week ... however long it takes ... Sunday Zazen for Peace, with Washin in Ukraine
And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ... A TREELEAF EXPERIMENT with EVERYONE’S PARTICIPATION REQUESTED: “LAH” (Lend A Hand)
I am so glad if this place and the practice are benefiting you. If so, you might consider a DONATION to Treeleaf at this LINK, although there is absolutely no need or requirement to do so. Thank you.
A Re-MINDer on SIMPLICITY:
In a Zen Monastery, SILENCE or A FEW WISE WORDS are cherished over MANY WORDS. Thus, I advise folks to restrain the need to speak unless the heart truly calls. If you find yourself posting many times each day, maybe consider what truly needs to be said ... and when it is best just to answer with silence and an inner Gassho.
SILENCE OR A FEW HESITANT WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT OFTEN SPEAK MOST PROFOUNDLY. Post when it is truly important to you and needs to be spoken from the warm heart.
(BUT too much silence or shyness can also be excessive ... so take the Middle Way!)
As a powerful Zen practice about not falling into words and thoughts, simplifying ideas, not getting tangled, we ask people to keep sentences few in posting. However, it is not some law or hard rule at all. If someone really has something in their heart to say, and it is vital and cannot be said more concisely or silently, then say what one is called to say: In such case, no limit on words needed.
As well, to those who may get lost among the many threads and conversations in our Forum, please think of a monastery made of wood or brick, with 100 monks holding 10,000 conversations in the hallways, kitchen, Abbot's rooms and library (I assume no chatting in the Zendo where people sit Zazen).
Would you need or want to hear or join in all or most conversations? Of course not! You would, at best, pick and choose the conversations relevant and helpful to you.
So here too in our Sangha, NO NEED TO READ EVERY CONVERSATION: Try to note the ones that seem helpful to your Practice or interests, leave the rest. The above threads are a few suggestions.
Oh, and we do ask folks to note that they have SAT ZAZEN DURING THE LAST DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):
Gassho, Jundo
(Sorry to run long)
SatTodayLAH
You can still sit, any place or time, our Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... this time, welcoming Guest Teacher, Stone Roshi ...
You can also see Stone Roshi's "talk" here ... rock solid ... The Zen Wisdom of STONE ROSHI, a Guest Teacher at Treeleaf Sangha ...
Our own Kokuu offers a lovely, powerful reflection on Zazen ... in flesh and blood, not stone ... Zazen from the Bottom Up (Zazen pt II) ...
Good to say that Rev. Jinkan is back home ... with reflections on emulating Bodhisattvas Stuck In Bed ...
Shokai brought home another year of 108 Gates ... crossing the Goalless Goal Line ...
Announcement of another Guest Teacher coming to Treeleaf in two weeks ... Special Treeleaf Event: Zenki Mary Mocine - I Hate Donald Tr*** - (Sat) April 29th ... on how NOT to HATE in modern politics in many countries ...
A Conversation Between Two Zen Nuns on Gender and Equality ... (but a finger wag from me on some discrimination which continues
) ...
Tricycle, the Buddhist Journal, published one of my things ... Tricycle: New Article by Jundo Published ...
The thread that inspired Stone Roshi ... Rocks ...
Why bother getting up in the morning? ... our members offer endless reasons ...
Sitting Zazen in Unusual places ... but every place is the right place for Zazen ...
Zen of Everything Podcast ... Ep. 98 ... Flying Rabbits on the Moon ... I don't know what it is about ...
Have Hope! ... [Ecodharma) ACTIVE HOPE Chapter Six (part one) ...
Washin continues, week by week ... however long it takes ... Sunday Zazen for Peace, with Washin in Ukraine
And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ... A TREELEAF EXPERIMENT with EVERYONE’S PARTICIPATION REQUESTED: “LAH” (Lend A Hand)
I am so glad if this place and the practice are benefiting you. If so, you might consider a DONATION to Treeleaf at this LINK, although there is absolutely no need or requirement to do so. Thank you.
A Re-MINDer on SIMPLICITY:
In a Zen Monastery, SILENCE or A FEW WISE WORDS are cherished over MANY WORDS. Thus, I advise folks to restrain the need to speak unless the heart truly calls. If you find yourself posting many times each day, maybe consider what truly needs to be said ... and when it is best just to answer with silence and an inner Gassho.
SILENCE OR A FEW HESITANT WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT OFTEN SPEAK MOST PROFOUNDLY. Post when it is truly important to you and needs to be spoken from the warm heart.
(BUT too much silence or shyness can also be excessive ... so take the Middle Way!)
As a powerful Zen practice about not falling into words and thoughts, simplifying ideas, not getting tangled, we ask people to keep sentences few in posting. However, it is not some law or hard rule at all. If someone really has something in their heart to say, and it is vital and cannot be said more concisely or silently, then say what one is called to say: In such case, no limit on words needed.
A Request to Sangha Members: "Three Sacred Sentences" Practice
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ences-Practice
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ences-Practice
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As well, to those who may get lost among the many threads and conversations in our Forum, please think of a monastery made of wood or brick, with 100 monks holding 10,000 conversations in the hallways, kitchen, Abbot's rooms and library (I assume no chatting in the Zendo where people sit Zazen).
Would you need or want to hear or join in all or most conversations? Of course not! You would, at best, pick and choose the conversations relevant and helpful to you.
So here too in our Sangha, NO NEED TO READ EVERY CONVERSATION: Try to note the ones that seem helpful to your Practice or interests, leave the rest. The above threads are a few suggestions.
Oh, and we do ask folks to note that they have SAT ZAZEN DURING THE LAST DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):
Gassho, Jundo
(Sorry to run long)
SatTodayLAH
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