December 18th recommended threads

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December 18th recommended threads

12-19-2012, 03:21 AM

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

Continued reflections on Newtown, Evil, the "Devil", Doing Right and Not Doing Wrong ... Where do we turn? ...

Where do we turn? - Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?10436-Where-do-we-turn&p=91711&viewfull=1#post91711

I was having a great day. I had slept well and felt refreshed. I got some work done. All my sports teams had won. And by chance I flipped channels over to the Newtown memorial service and just lost it. Tears and sorrow flowed. The relativity of my day compared to the subject of that service was crushing. That the service was

... including a comment on why sometimes we Zen folks have to toss water on seemingly perfectly interesting philosophical discussions.

Trying to explain Zen Buddhism to my wife ... or a lot of folks.

Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?10437-Trying-to-explain-Zen-Buddhism-to-my-wife

A comment on undertaking some Practices even when a chore ... a failing to do, even when there is no possible way to fail ...

BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 21 - Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?10419-BOOK-OF-EQUANIMITY-Case-21&p=91786&viewfull=1#post91786

Case 20 never ends, yet now comes ... Case 21 - Ungan Sweeps The Ground The Moon, in traditional Zen imagery, symbolizes Reality, Wholeness, Oneness. However, when we look at the moon high in the far off sky, if we feel so distant and apart down here on earth, we create a "second moon" in our eye. That feeling of

ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
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