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

Please sit our October 2th, 2012 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ...
Hello All, Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE from 9am Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 8pm, Los Angeles 5pm (Friday night), London 1am and Paris 2am (early Saturday morning) ... and to be visible at the following link during those times and


For our Jukai-ers ... PRECEPTS IV - To Refrain from Stealing ...


and a "thank you" for Practice Partner Exercise (PPE) #5 ...


Some carrots, some sticks and, most vitally, simple diligence, consistency and persistence while dropping any thought of goals ... when sitting is off to a Rough Start ...


A small 'YOU are not IT' moment, and Taigu's reminder not to cling to any moment ...
‘Mind and body drop away’. ‘Letting go.’ These kinds of phrases I have read or heard from studying this practice of zazen have sometimes left me quite confused as to what to do or which way to go. The more I thought, the more I knew that this ‘thinking’ was opposite to the essence of zazen