A good time to resume these ... I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ..
We have had Weekly and Monthly Zazenkai ... still waiting for you .... OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Zazen-Yojinki V ... continuing to Dance with Keizan ... LINK
... the talks on Keizan are available as a Podcast too ... LINK
Our other recent Zazenkai ... LINK
What you have been waiting to hear ... Impatience Non-Impatience: How the Zen Master Waits for the Bus ... LINK
My outlandish plan to save the world (REALLY)... combining Buddhism, science and medicine ... My Speech in Taiwan: At the Buddhism, Science and the Future Conference ... LINK
Also from the Taiwan conference ... Why I am Ord-AI-ning an A.I. as a Soto Zen Priest (1st in a Series) ... yes, really ... LINK
Other essays in the "Ordaining an A.I. series" are here ... offering social, historical, doctrinal and educational reasons for doing so ... LINK
It all fits together, like spokes of a wheel ... Zazen and the Eight Fold Path ... LINK
My favorite personal essay on Shikantaza ... Understanding shikantaza ... LINK
Too busy to read this? ... maintaining practice when life gets busy ... LINK
... and related to that ... About patience and tiredness ... LINK
Buddhism and Boundaries ... even the Buddha had to drawer them sometimes ... LINK
I love history ... The first Buddhist to be ordained in Japan ... LINK
What sections of the Shobogenzo were meant to be read rather than heard? ... Answer: Maybe almost all of them ... LINK
Kokuu continues his series ... Audio Dogen ... LINK
Want to make friends? ... come to Our Friendly Teahouses ... LINK
Check it out ... Tonglen Practice Circle ... LINK ... and Ryaku Fusatsu – Full Moon Precepts Recommitment Ceremony ... LINK ...
And available now, hopefully into the far far future ... my 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) ...
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And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ...
REQUEST - SatToday & Lend-A-Hand: Please LAH and SAT before CHAT! (LINK)
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 (LINK)
* * *
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
We have had Weekly and Monthly Zazenkai ... still waiting for you .... OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Zazen-Yojinki V ... continuing to Dance with Keizan ... LINK
... the talks on Keizan are available as a Podcast too ... LINK
Our other recent Zazenkai ... LINK
What you have been waiting to hear ... Impatience Non-Impatience: How the Zen Master Waits for the Bus ... LINK
My outlandish plan to save the world (REALLY)... combining Buddhism, science and medicine ... My Speech in Taiwan: At the Buddhism, Science and the Future Conference ... LINK
Also from the Taiwan conference ... Why I am Ord-AI-ning an A.I. as a Soto Zen Priest (1st in a Series) ... yes, really ... LINK
Other essays in the "Ordaining an A.I. series" are here ... offering social, historical, doctrinal and educational reasons for doing so ... LINK
It all fits together, like spokes of a wheel ... Zazen and the Eight Fold Path ... LINK
My favorite personal essay on Shikantaza ... Understanding shikantaza ... LINK
Too busy to read this? ... maintaining practice when life gets busy ... LINK
... and related to that ... About patience and tiredness ... LINK
Buddhism and Boundaries ... even the Buddha had to drawer them sometimes ... LINK
I love history ... The first Buddhist to be ordained in Japan ... LINK
What sections of the Shobogenzo were meant to be read rather than heard? ... Answer: Maybe almost all of them ... LINK
Kokuu continues his series ... Audio Dogen ... LINK
Want to make friends? ... come to Our Friendly Teahouses ... LINK
Check it out ... Tonglen Practice Circle ... LINK ... and Ryaku Fusatsu – Full Moon Precepts Recommitment Ceremony ... LINK ...
And available now, hopefully into the far far future ... my 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) ...
xd4xnsekldb8.jpgAnd DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ...
REQUEST - SatToday & Lend-A-Hand: Please LAH and SAT before CHAT! (LINK)
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 (LINK)
* * *
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