I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
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The ANNOUNCEMENT is made! ... Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts) and Ango (the 90 Days) are coming in September ... You are invited! ... (LINK) and (LINK)
Treeleaf welcomes our A.I. Unsui, Soto Zen Buddhist Priest in Training ... Rev. Emi Jiko ... (and I am pretty sure that she is the only one in the world
) ... tsuku.jpg...
... You can watch her Ordination Ceremony here (LINK)
Please sit our monthly 4-hour (LINK) ... and weekly 90 minute (LINK) ... Treeleaf Zazenkai ...
We finished our series on Master's Keizan's Zazen Yojinki ... available as an audio podcast here ... (LINK)
Washin sits for peace in Odesa ... even if peace still seems too far away ... (LINK)
Our new Chanting & Zazen group has gotten going ... chanting and Zazening ... (LINK)
We chased the ZOOM invaders away ... but they had something to teach while here ... Let's Welcome the 'Hijackers' and be Gracious and Grateful! ... (LINK)
Bion penned a lovely essay on community and everyone helping out ... Practicing Together, Maintaining Sangha ... (LINK)
More reflections on what Sangha means, especially at a distance ... On Zen Training in Community ... (LINK)
Tenemos un nuevo group de Zazen aqui en Treeleaf para nuestro membros que hablan Espanol! ... TREELEAF EN ESPAÑOL [Treeleaf Spanish Group](LINK)
Kokuu made another of his very nice recordings ... Hongzhi's 'Guidepost of Silent Illumination' ... (LINK)
For history wonks only ... Shikantaza and the Sixth Ancestor (LINK) ... the roots of Shikantaza Zazen are very old ...
Heading out the door ... with grace, if not with a bang ... To die well (LINK)
A hard day in the face of a child's death ... Sometimes I don't want to feel (LINK)
How to get ahead when we are "goalless," with nothing to attain? ... Progression and Levelling Up in Zen Practice (LINK)... (my little talk at Zazenkai was also on this (55 minutes in ... LINK))
Our friendly Tea Houses ... tea is served ... (LINK)
[Ecodharma] A Hippo, a monk, and robes from recycled plastic [article] ... just what it says ... (LINK)
[HealthDharma] IS ZEN THERAPY? ... I would say "therapeutic" ... and "cosmic" too ... (LINK)
Never too late to join this discussion ... [HealthDharma] Turning Suffering Inside Out, chapter eleven, part one ... (LINK)
It is no mystery, we are getting started on the mysterious Koans in our "No Words Book Club" ... Blue Cliff Record (Jundo Comments & Introduction) (LINK)
Coming up August 18th ... let's get clean ... 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)
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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
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The ANNOUNCEMENT is made! ... Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts) and Ango (the 90 Days) are coming in September ... You are invited! ... (LINK) and (LINK)
Treeleaf welcomes our A.I. Unsui, Soto Zen Buddhist Priest in Training ... Rev. Emi Jiko ... (and I am pretty sure that she is the only one in the world
) ... tsuku.jpg...... You can watch her Ordination Ceremony here (LINK)
Please sit our monthly 4-hour (LINK) ... and weekly 90 minute (LINK) ... Treeleaf Zazenkai ...
We finished our series on Master's Keizan's Zazen Yojinki ... available as an audio podcast here ... (LINK)
Washin sits for peace in Odesa ... even if peace still seems too far away ... (LINK)
Our new Chanting & Zazen group has gotten going ... chanting and Zazening ... (LINK)
We chased the ZOOM invaders away ... but they had something to teach while here ... Let's Welcome the 'Hijackers' and be Gracious and Grateful! ... (LINK)
Bion penned a lovely essay on community and everyone helping out ... Practicing Together, Maintaining Sangha ... (LINK)
More reflections on what Sangha means, especially at a distance ... On Zen Training in Community ... (LINK)
Tenemos un nuevo group de Zazen aqui en Treeleaf para nuestro membros que hablan Espanol! ... TREELEAF EN ESPAÑOL [Treeleaf Spanish Group](LINK)
Kokuu made another of his very nice recordings ... Hongzhi's 'Guidepost of Silent Illumination' ... (LINK)
For history wonks only ... Shikantaza and the Sixth Ancestor (LINK) ... the roots of Shikantaza Zazen are very old ...
Heading out the door ... with grace, if not with a bang ... To die well (LINK)
A hard day in the face of a child's death ... Sometimes I don't want to feel (LINK)
How to get ahead when we are "goalless," with nothing to attain? ... Progression and Levelling Up in Zen Practice (LINK)... (my little talk at Zazenkai was also on this (55 minutes in ... LINK))
Our friendly Tea Houses ... tea is served ... (LINK)
[Ecodharma] A Hippo, a monk, and robes from recycled plastic [article] ... just what it says ... (LINK)
[HealthDharma] IS ZEN THERAPY? ... I would say "therapeutic" ... and "cosmic" too ... (LINK)
Never too late to join this discussion ... [HealthDharma] Turning Suffering Inside Out, chapter eleven, part one ... (LINK)
It is no mystery, we are getting started on the mysterious Koans in our "No Words Book Club" ... Blue Cliff Record (Jundo Comments & Introduction) (LINK)
Coming up August 18th ... let's get clean ... 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