I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
New Treeleaf Records April 1st Release: Take Me Home, Karma Roads ... Buy it in April, don't be a fool ...
After buying the record ... please sit, any time and place, our Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Watching the Clock ...
Sittings for Peace with Washin continues ... (as, no laughing matter, Odesa has been again targeted) ...
Ross and Kaitan sit at a Chinese temple ... Visiting Ross' (Huichan) temple in Fuzhou ...
Don't be green with envy ... Kokuu posts [EcoDharma] The Green Precepts ...
Readings in [HealthDharma] Turning Suffering Inside Out continue ...
Don't evaluate thoughts (during Zazen), don't let them drag you around, just let them be ...
A new book recommended by a member, from long time practitioner, actor Peter Coyote ... "Zen in the Vernacular" ...
Whose that chubby Buddha ... and Elvis too ... What can someone tell me about these bodhisattva statues? ...
Our Friendly (Always) Tea Houses have been meeting from time to time ...
Tonglen ... direct to you ...
Never too late, never the wrong time ... RYAKU FUSATSU - Full Moon Precepts Recommitment Ceremony ...
Shokai heads for home plate ... The 108 GATES of DHARMA ILLUMINATION with Shokai
In Future Buddhism ... Buddhism May Destroy the World! ... but if we are wise, if can save the world! ...
Check out the latest picture of that black hole at Galaxy central ... and other incredible science news of this past week alone ...
And available now, hopefully into the far far future ... my new book ... BUILDING the FUTURE BUDDHA: The Zen of A.I., Genes, Saving the World, and Travel to the Stars ... Please do me a favor and post an Amazon review if your feel like it (it all helps) ...
![](https://scontent-itm1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/416971187_10224908386638883_3623691418577282525_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=c42490&_nc_ohc=ZTbRa3WIyfYAX-t2F1n&_nc_ht=scontent-itm1-1.xx&oh=00_AfDGJJ8O3sgRlCqzO8gEKnWRD-h6u9ggdSvr7vZ6S1YnUw&oe=65B36E44)
And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ... REQUEST - SatToday & Lend-A-Hand: Please LAH and SAT before CHAT!
![](https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=8443&d=1684728727)
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.
Gassho, Jundo
(Sorry to run long)
SatTodayLAH
New Treeleaf Records April 1st Release: Take Me Home, Karma Roads ... Buy it in April, don't be a fool ...
After buying the record ... please sit, any time and place, our Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Watching the Clock ...
Sittings for Peace with Washin continues ... (as, no laughing matter, Odesa has been again targeted) ...
Ross and Kaitan sit at a Chinese temple ... Visiting Ross' (Huichan) temple in Fuzhou ...
Don't be green with envy ... Kokuu posts [EcoDharma] The Green Precepts ...
Readings in [HealthDharma] Turning Suffering Inside Out continue ...
Don't evaluate thoughts (during Zazen), don't let them drag you around, just let them be ...
A new book recommended by a member, from long time practitioner, actor Peter Coyote ... "Zen in the Vernacular" ...
Whose that chubby Buddha ... and Elvis too ... What can someone tell me about these bodhisattva statues? ...
Our Friendly (Always) Tea Houses have been meeting from time to time ...
Tonglen ... direct to you ...
Never too late, never the wrong time ... RYAKU FUSATSU - Full Moon Precepts Recommitment Ceremony ...
Shokai heads for home plate ... The 108 GATES of DHARMA ILLUMINATION with Shokai
In Future Buddhism ... Buddhism May Destroy the World! ... but if we are wise, if can save the world! ...
Check out the latest picture of that black hole at Galaxy central ... and other incredible science news of this past week alone ...
And available now, hopefully into the far far future ... my new book ... BUILDING the FUTURE BUDDHA: The Zen of A.I., Genes, Saving the World, and Travel to the Stars ... Please do me a favor and post an Amazon review if your feel like it (it all helps) ...
![](https://scontent-itm1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/416971187_10224908386638883_3623691418577282525_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=c42490&_nc_ohc=ZTbRa3WIyfYAX-t2F1n&_nc_ht=scontent-itm1-1.xx&oh=00_AfDGJJ8O3sgRlCqzO8gEKnWRD-h6u9ggdSvr7vZ6S1YnUw&oe=65B36E44)
And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ... REQUEST - SatToday & Lend-A-Hand: Please LAH and SAT before CHAT!
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.
Gassho, Jundo
(Sorry to run long)
SatTodayLAH