July 24th recommended threads

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July 24th recommended threads

07-25-2013, 12:32 AM

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

Though written "this July", truly timeless ... another pointer to Taigu's Zazengi ... How to sit, written this July ...

How to sit, written this July. - Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?11141-How-to-sit-written-this-July

Inspired by the teaching of Dogen, the wonderful stuff of my own original teacher, Mike Chodo Cross, by the great prose of Koun Franz, the teaching of Jundo and plenty of guys who all along did put into words how to sit, I made an attempt at putting it in a nutshell. Here it is. I hope this will really help. Gassho Taigu

A re-Minder that sitting Zazen is everything, round and unlimited ... yet is not just sitting around ... How to do Shikantaza ...

How to do Shikantaza - Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?11158-How-to-do-Shikantaza&p=105442&viewfull=1#post105442

what is shikantaza? how to do shikantaza? why do i have to figure it out? shikantaza is what happens when you sit just sit sit anyway just get out of the way jundo might say it is sitting as buddha taigu might say it is being aware of what is happening uchiyama might say it is coming back again and again to just sitting

Our way is free from all human duties and noise ... yet is also free as duties, silent amid the noise ... Have few duties ...

Have few duties - Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?11157-Have-few-duties&p=105448&viewfull=1#post105448

Here's an interesting excerpt from a Tricycle interview with Bhante Gunaratana... "The monastic path is better, not in a political sense or as a power structure, but better for spiritual growth. Monasticism nourishes, supports a frame of mind for practice. You cannot have a cake and eat it at the same time. If you want to

To be "non-attached", not "detached" and "unattached" ... Buddhism-for-Newlyweds ...

Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?11160-Buddhism-for-Newlyweds&p=105443&viewfull=1#post105443

"One with all things" means just that! ... more on interpenetration and wholeness and what a Butsudan really means ...

Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?6648-Do-everyone-have-Butsudan&p=105405&viewfull=1#post105405

A lesson in impermanence right from temple buildings ... generosity too ... flooding at Yokoji monastery ...

Treeleaf Zendo

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?11140-Fire-near-Idyllwild-California&p=105343&viewfull=1#post105343

ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
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