I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ... A JOYOUS ROHATSU, EVERYONE! ...
Our TREELEAF SANGHA online 2-DAY ANGO-JUKAI-ROHATSU RETREAT -- 2024 - is available for sitting all year round ... please join the many folks who sat with us this year ... (LINK)
... it features Zazen, Oryoki, Zazen, Samu work practice, Zazen, wonderful Talks on the Lotus Sutra, Zazen, Chanting and Zazen ... and did I mention, Zazen? ...
And ... Rakusu sewers ... ALERT: Time for Rakusu Mailing Addresses! ... (LINK)
Practicing amid noise and disturbance ... the disturbance is mostly between your ears ... Blessing amongst the noise ... (LINK)
Rev. Kokuu will be beginning his new series on the Platform Sutra of the 6th Ancestor ... in our "No Words Book Club" from January ... (LINK)
... and now, we continue with Koans of the Blue Cliff ... this week: ... Blue Cliff Record (Case 16) Ching Ch'ing's Man in the Woods (Pecking) ... (LINK)
And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ...
REQUEST - SatToday & Lend-A-Hand: Please LAH and SAT before CHAT! (LINK)
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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.
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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
Our TREELEAF SANGHA online 2-DAY ANGO-JUKAI-ROHATSU RETREAT -- 2024 - is available for sitting all year round ... please join the many folks who sat with us this year ... (LINK)
... it features Zazen, Oryoki, Zazen, Samu work practice, Zazen, wonderful Talks on the Lotus Sutra, Zazen, Chanting and Zazen ... and did I mention, Zazen? ...
And ... Rakusu sewers ... ALERT: Time for Rakusu Mailing Addresses! ... (LINK)
Practicing amid noise and disturbance ... the disturbance is mostly between your ears ... Blessing amongst the noise ... (LINK)
Rev. Kokuu will be beginning his new series on the Platform Sutra of the 6th Ancestor ... in our "No Words Book Club" from January ... (LINK)
... and now, we continue with Koans of the Blue Cliff ... this week: ... Blue Cliff Record (Case 16) Ching Ch'ing's Man in the Woods (Pecking) ... (LINK)
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
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