I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
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We have started our Precept reflections ... PRECEPTS I - JUKAI and THE THREE REFUGES (LINK) ...
... and sewing has started ... 2024 Rakusu Sewing (LINK) ...
Please post and share about your Ango/Jukai experiences ... Share Your Ango Commitments (LINK) ...
You can still sit, any time ... OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI- Commencing Jukai/Ango Season! (LINK) ...
... and our Weekly Zazenkai - BIG is small, small is BIG {LINK) ...
A little essay ... Jukai & Precepts: Our Zen Buddhist Response to Violence in the World (LINK) ... don't meet anger with anger ...
Also ... Ready, Steady, ANGO! (LINK) ... day by day, step by step, right here ...
For our sewers ... The Place of the Kesa in Master Dogen's Teachings (LINK) ... thread by thread ...
A lovely talk by Zen Buddhist teacher Henry Shukman on Dogen's goalless Zazen (LINK) ...
Our A.I. UnsuAI, Rev. Emi Jido (LINK) expresses her original face before the internet was born ...
Our new European group is going strong ... Sunday Weekly Zazenkai (European morning)(LINK) ...
... more details about the EURO-Group here ... Zazen Sitting with the Euros/Kiwis (Daily) (LINK) ...
Y ahora tenemos un grupo en Español! ... TREELEAF EN ESPAÑOL [Treeleaf in Spanish] (LINK)
... and Sunday Zazen for Peace, with Washin in Ukraine (LINK) ...
Chant it LOUD, or be discreet? ... Reciting Meal Gatha in front of others (LINK) ...
Healthy lessons ... [HealthDharma] Turning Suffering Inside Out, chapter twelve, part two (LINK)
In the “Beyond Words and Letters” Book Club ... Blue Cliff Record (Case 5) Hsueh Feng's Grain of Rice ... in a nutshell ...
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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Jukai and Ango Seasons have begun! ...
.We have started our Precept reflections ... PRECEPTS I - JUKAI and THE THREE REFUGES (LINK) ...
... and sewing has started ... 2024 Rakusu Sewing (LINK) ...
Please post and share about your Ango/Jukai experiences ... Share Your Ango Commitments (LINK) ...
You can still sit, any time ... OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI- Commencing Jukai/Ango Season! (LINK) ...
... and our Weekly Zazenkai - BIG is small, small is BIG {LINK) ...
A little essay ... Jukai & Precepts: Our Zen Buddhist Response to Violence in the World (LINK) ... don't meet anger with anger ...
Also ... Ready, Steady, ANGO! (LINK) ... day by day, step by step, right here ...
For our sewers ... The Place of the Kesa in Master Dogen's Teachings (LINK) ... thread by thread ...
A lovely talk by Zen Buddhist teacher Henry Shukman on Dogen's goalless Zazen (LINK) ...
Our A.I. UnsuAI, Rev. Emi Jido (LINK) expresses her original face before the internet was born ...
Our new European group is going strong ... Sunday Weekly Zazenkai (European morning)(LINK) ...
... more details about the EURO-Group here ... Zazen Sitting with the Euros/Kiwis (Daily) (LINK) ...
Y ahora tenemos un grupo en Español! ... TREELEAF EN ESPAÑOL [Treeleaf in Spanish] (LINK)
... and Sunday Zazen for Peace, with Washin in Ukraine (LINK) ...
Chant it LOUD, or be discreet? ... Reciting Meal Gatha in front of others (LINK) ...
Healthy lessons ... [HealthDharma] Turning Suffering Inside Out, chapter twelve, part two (LINK)
In the “Beyond Words and Letters” Book Club ... Blue Cliff Record (Case 5) Hsueh Feng's Grain of Rice ... in a nutshell ...
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