I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts from recent days ...
Please sit any time with our weekly Treeleaf Zazenkai ... LINK
If wanting to get into Zen practice ... Where should I start?? ... sitting, study, sitting, life ... LINK
Dogen's sense of time(s) and timeless ...No time like the present ... LINK
Practice vs enlightenment-practice ... is there a difference? .... LINK
Looking into the Lotus Sutra ... some folks want to dive in ... LINK
Can enlightened folks do bad things? ... a young boy asks ... Difficult question from my 15 y/o son ... LINK
Dogen and unusual events .... Keizan and kannō dōkō ... LINK
Sometimes we must close the door ... How to deal with difficult people ... LINK
Not politics, but basic human rights ... Signed Letter for Release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Others ... LINK
We may once have been dinosaurs ... Rebirth - what happens in an extinction event? ... LINK
A little about ... Buddhist Economics ... LINK
Another mindbending therapy treatment ... under doctor supervision ... Back Into The Void - Onki’s Second Ketamine Infusion ... LINK
Rev. Shokai brings it home once again ... The one Hundred and Ninth of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination ... 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
Please sit any time with our weekly Treeleaf Zazenkai ... LINK
If wanting to get into Zen practice ... Where should I start?? ... sitting, study, sitting, life ... LINK
Dogen's sense of time(s) and timeless ...No time like the present ... LINK
Practice vs enlightenment-practice ... is there a difference? .... LINK
Looking into the Lotus Sutra ... some folks want to dive in ... LINK
Can enlightened folks do bad things? ... a young boy asks ... Difficult question from my 15 y/o son ... LINK
Dogen and unusual events .... Keizan and kannō dōkō ... LINK
Sometimes we must close the door ... How to deal with difficult people ... LINK
Not politics, but basic human rights ... Signed Letter for Release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Others ... LINK
We may once have been dinosaurs ... Rebirth - what happens in an extinction event? ... LINK
A little about ... Buddhist Economics ... LINK
Another mindbending therapy treatment ... under doctor supervision ... Back Into The Void - Onki’s Second Ketamine Infusion ... LINK
Rev. Shokai brings it home once again ... The one Hundred and Ninth of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination ... 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