I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
A guest teacher next Sunday, May 21st ... Shunzan Jill Kaplan - Deep Connections to Dharma ... about media, the internet and Zen ...
Our Zazenkai is available to sit now, any time ... with a special guest too ... Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Abhaya? Varada? Kannon? Miroku (Maitreya)? ...
We continue week after week ... Zazen for Peace, with Washin in Ukraine ...
Kokuu is off on pilgrimage ... but he is not going so far ... Departure ...
... Jinkan, Zelda and the Dragon God ...
Let's do anything good and effective to help rescue sentient beings ... Not Turning from All Good Ways, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow ... ...
If sometimes the chemistry becomes not right ... I've had to suggest some to find a new teacher ... and it breaks my heart ... ...
What did Suzuki Roshi mean by "Mind Waves" ... and why is his book sometimes hard to read? ...
Kotei offers some reasons to put the Kesa on ...
Impossible to summarize ... and very personal ... but here is one of our member's "Essential points of practice for zen students" ...
We are everything and all things, and they are you too ... [FutureBuddha (34)] Dharmakhaya, Who We Also Are ...
[EcoDharma] ACTIVE HOPE Chapter Eight ... more good ways to have hope, and to act on it ...
Our online No Words Book Club turns to Zen and the perils of media and internet ... [Challenging Times] - (7) - Deep Connection to the Dharma ...
On the Zen of Everything Podcast ... WE MADE IT! ... Episode 100: Two Guys in a Zen Pub ...
Tonglen tonight or tomorrow or any time ...
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
A guest teacher next Sunday, May 21st ... Shunzan Jill Kaplan - Deep Connections to Dharma ... about media, the internet and Zen ...
Our Zazenkai is available to sit now, any time ... with a special guest too ... Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Abhaya? Varada? Kannon? Miroku (Maitreya)? ...
We continue week after week ... Zazen for Peace, with Washin in Ukraine ...
Kokuu is off on pilgrimage ... but he is not going so far ... Departure ...
... Jinkan, Zelda and the Dragon God ...
Let's do anything good and effective to help rescue sentient beings ... Not Turning from All Good Ways, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow ... ...
If sometimes the chemistry becomes not right ... I've had to suggest some to find a new teacher ... and it breaks my heart ... ...
What did Suzuki Roshi mean by "Mind Waves" ... and why is his book sometimes hard to read? ...
Kotei offers some reasons to put the Kesa on ...
Impossible to summarize ... and very personal ... but here is one of our member's "Essential points of practice for zen students" ...
We are everything and all things, and they are you too ... [FutureBuddha (34)] Dharmakhaya, Who We Also Are ...
[EcoDharma] ACTIVE HOPE Chapter Eight ... more good ways to have hope, and to act on it ...
Our online No Words Book Club turns to Zen and the perils of media and internet ... [Challenging Times] - (7) - Deep Connection to the Dharma ...
On the Zen of Everything Podcast ... WE MADE IT! ... Episode 100: Two Guys in a Zen Pub ...
Tonglen tonight or tomorrow or any time ...
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