I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...

August 4th, 2012- OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI!

Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?10001-August-4th-2012-OUR-MONTHLY-4-hour-ZAZENKAI!&p=82753#post82753


The Zazenkai features a 30 minute talk (from 1:49:00) on recent Koans from the Book of Equanimity.

The Buddha statue on the Altar during our Zazenkai was an old rubber boot. Boot-dha. The non-reason is discussed here ...

On rituals - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?9978-On-rituals&p=82768&viewfull=1#post82768
I've been having an e-mail exchange with Jundo over the past few days, and one of the things I commented on was my discomfort with the rituals that are practiced in Zen. I thought it would be a good idea to post my thoughts here, and see what you all think. Here's what I said first: I've been hanging around Treeleaf pretty


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BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 11
BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 11 - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?10004-BOOK-OF-EQUANIMITY-Case-11
Case 10 never ends, yet now comes ... CASE 11 - Ummon's Two Sicknesses I would actually say there are three or four sicknesses, perhaps endless sicknesses upon sicknesses. At first (this is Basic Buddhism 101), you are a sickly deluded being like most on this planet, a prisoner of the sense of separate


On rituals, including discussion of Mantra and Dharani
On rituals - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?9978-On-rituals&p=82771&viewfull=1#post82771
I've been having an e-mail exchange with Jundo over the past few days, and one of the things I commented on was my discomfort with the rituals that are practiced in Zen. I thought it would be a good idea to post my thoughts here, and see what you all think. Here's what I said first: I've been hanging around Treeleaf pretty