I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please sit with our July MONTHLY 4-hr ZAZENKAI ... and our new series on Genjo Koan (I) - The Key to Dogen's Zen ...
The Genjo Koan talks will also be available in audio at the Treeleaf Podcast ...
You can also still get on board our last weekly Treeleaf Zazenkai ... Wheels On The Bus ... the world goes round and round ...
A little essay on the bus is here ... Not Waiting for the Buddha Bus ... ...
Also ... Shikantaza Ipso Facto ...
An update and reflection from Rev. Jinkan, following Heart Attack No. 6 ... back home now, resting ...
We continue to sit for peace with Washin ... week by week ... with concerns for nuclear safety too ...
An auspicious time ... ANNOUNCEMENT: Our 2023 TREELEAF Home-Leaving ORDINATIONS ...
Online sitting/zazenkai vs sitting along/in person ... some of the difference in what we do, some just the state of mind one brings ...
We sit on the cushion ... but elsewhere too, and walk and run ... Insta-Zen, Mindful Moments, Zazen off of the cushion ...
This just brings a smile ... and the open sky ... What Satori is Like ... ...
When a child asks ... My 9 year old asked me why I sit zazen? ...
My late Teacher is still with us ... BOOK REVIEW: 'A Talk On Pursuing The Truth' by Gudo Nishijima Roshi (Jundo's Teacher)
A chanting question ... makes me swallow and take a breath ...
Some issues are matters of life and death, truly ... My Open Letter to My Dharma Brothers professing "Anti-Vaxxer" Views ...
If you can't see folks faces in the Forum, you are supposed to ... Special Note: Forum Avatars and Signatures ...
A hard question that many face with family and friends ... Should you help someone who doesn't want to be helped? ...
Hope for this planet, never ending ... [EcoDharma] ACTIVE HOPE Chapter Twelve ...
In Zen of the Future ... [FutureBuddha (40)] SIMUL-GAKAYA BUDDHA (PART III)
... [FutureBuddha (41)] SIMUL-GAKAYA BUDDHA (PART IV) ...
... [FutureBuddha (42)] SIMUL-GAKAYA BUDDHA (PART V) ...
Plus some really cool developments in recent science ... The Zen of Technology & Scientific Discovery! (& Robots) ...
In our No Words Book Club ... [Challenging Times] -(10)- Breath is Life - Myokaku Jane Schneider ...
From the best Zen podcast ... 'The ZEN of EVERYTHING! Podcast' ... Ep. 104: The Best Zen Books ...
Something new and rewarding in our Arts center ... Zen 'Non-Calligraphy' with Geika ...
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
Please sit with our July MONTHLY 4-hr ZAZENKAI ... and our new series on Genjo Koan (I) - The Key to Dogen's Zen ...
The Genjo Koan talks will also be available in audio at the Treeleaf Podcast ...
You can also still get on board our last weekly Treeleaf Zazenkai ... Wheels On The Bus ... the world goes round and round ...
A little essay on the bus is here ... Not Waiting for the Buddha Bus ... ...
Also ... Shikantaza Ipso Facto ...
An update and reflection from Rev. Jinkan, following Heart Attack No. 6 ... back home now, resting ...
We continue to sit for peace with Washin ... week by week ... with concerns for nuclear safety too ...
An auspicious time ... ANNOUNCEMENT: Our 2023 TREELEAF Home-Leaving ORDINATIONS ...
Online sitting/zazenkai vs sitting along/in person ... some of the difference in what we do, some just the state of mind one brings ...
We sit on the cushion ... but elsewhere too, and walk and run ... Insta-Zen, Mindful Moments, Zazen off of the cushion ...
This just brings a smile ... and the open sky ... What Satori is Like ... ...
When a child asks ... My 9 year old asked me why I sit zazen? ...
My late Teacher is still with us ... BOOK REVIEW: 'A Talk On Pursuing The Truth' by Gudo Nishijima Roshi (Jundo's Teacher)
A chanting question ... makes me swallow and take a breath ...
Some issues are matters of life and death, truly ... My Open Letter to My Dharma Brothers professing "Anti-Vaxxer" Views ...
If you can't see folks faces in the Forum, you are supposed to ... Special Note: Forum Avatars and Signatures ...
A hard question that many face with family and friends ... Should you help someone who doesn't want to be helped? ...
Hope for this planet, never ending ... [EcoDharma] ACTIVE HOPE Chapter Twelve ...
In Zen of the Future ... [FutureBuddha (40)] SIMUL-GAKAYA BUDDHA (PART III)
... [FutureBuddha (41)] SIMUL-GAKAYA BUDDHA (PART IV) ...
... [FutureBuddha (42)] SIMUL-GAKAYA BUDDHA (PART V) ...
Plus some really cool developments in recent science ... The Zen of Technology & Scientific Discovery! (& Robots) ...
In our No Words Book Club ... [Challenging Times] -(10)- Breath is Life - Myokaku Jane Schneider ...
From the best Zen podcast ... 'The ZEN of EVERYTHING! Podcast' ... Ep. 104: The Best Zen Books ...
Something new and rewarding in our Arts center ... Zen 'Non-Calligraphy' with Geika ...
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