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

More non-thoughts about Zazen as sitting like rock, trees, mountains and mirrors ...
Since the past 3 or 4 days, I have been experimenting with something. A senior student told me during last weekend's Zazenkai that following/counting breath is recommended for beginners as with "just sitting" we may fool ourselves that we are alert even at times when we are lost. Somehow later during the week, I


... and Zazen as doing mental laundry about mentally doing the laundry ...
Since the past 3 or 4 days, I have been experimenting with something. A senior student told me during last weekend's Zazenkai that following/counting breath is recommended for beginners as with "just sitting" we may fool ourselves that we are alert even at times when we are lost. Somehow later during the week, I


Don't forget our upcoming Treeleaf Global Service Days: July 6-20 2013 .. let's make the world a little better ...


Folks saying nice words about our Sangha ... An appreciation that will be no surprised to some ...
I've been around the 'Zen scene' for some time now and I've met wonderful people, incredible people and some not so wonderful people. So when I first came to know about Treeleaf and after accessing the site a few times as a guest and thought of applying to join Treeleaf, I asked some of these people what they thought of it. I


... but this Sangha (and all the folks with opinions) also don't exist (so compliments might be a waste of breath then! ) ...
An investigation of reality This World does not exist This Sangha does not exist Our teachers do not exist outside our own mind. It is all a projection of mind. Your Sangha is not my Sangha Your teacher is not my teacher Your world is not my world And my world is not real. Our Sangha is me projecting a Sangha the way I


Please sit with our June 28-29th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai (even thought it does not exist either!) ...
June 28-29th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Some personal words from Fugen (who does not exist) about practicing while (nonexistently) ill .. A talk by Fugen: It Hurts! ...
Hi. http://youtu.be/TS_CqCiO4GA Some ramblings by the old fool, its all good practice... Mtfbwy Fugen


And for the cosmically minded, please don't get hung up on "big and small, near and far" ... A pale blue dot ...