I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please remember that we are in our Treeleaf Global Service Days: January 11-25 2014 ...
We turn to, and are turned by, BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 32 ... Kyozan's State of Mind ...
Please sit with our January 17th-18th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... a Zafu is waiting ...
If you would like to receive invites to participate in our various netcast sittings ... ATTENTION: New Google+ Community invitation posted ...
When we take Buddhism out of Zen ... what remains? ...
Little moments of Makyo When doing Zazen ... enjoy the show ...
How does one better control their temper? .... Hmmm. By giving up our need to control life?
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A Traditional Zen Art that is very nutritious ... introducing our Oryoki Circle ...
A am impressed whenever I see this ... The Incredible Power of Concentration ...
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.
(too much silence or shyness can also be excessive ... so take the Middle Way!)
Also, 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
Please remember that we are in our Treeleaf Global Service Days: January 11-25 2014 ...
We turn to, and are turned by, BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 32 ... Kyozan's State of Mind ...
Please sit with our January 17th-18th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... a Zafu is waiting ...
If you would like to receive invites to participate in our various netcast sittings ... ATTENTION: New Google+ Community invitation posted ...
When we take Buddhism out of Zen ... what remains? ...
Little moments of Makyo When doing Zazen ... enjoy the show ...
How does one better control their temper? .... Hmmm. By giving up our need to control life?
....
A Traditional Zen Art that is very nutritious ... introducing our Oryoki Circle ...
A am impressed whenever I see this ... The Incredible Power of Concentration ...
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.
(too much silence or shyness can also be excessive ... so take the Middle Way!)
Also, 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