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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40471

    February 23rd recommended threads

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

    Please sit our February 21-22nd, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai (HOSTED BY KYONIN, LIVE FROM MEXICO!) ...
    TODAY'S SITTING IS THE NORMAL SCHEDULE, but will be HOSTED BY KYONIN LIVE FROM MEXICO, assisted by our Ino Dosho! Due to technical non-problems, please self time the last sitting of the day (and recite Verse of Atonement and Four Vows). Video cuts off early at end. Hello All, Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly


    The Dalai Lama speaks of "How to Achieve Happiness", but what does that really mean? ...
    The Dalai Lama will tell you how, in a live webcast later today: http://circles.dalailamafoundation.org/how-to-achieve-happiness-live-webcast-from-berkeley-california-usa/ I have a great deal of respect for the Dalai Lama, but I find that the Tibetan tradition - which was may gateway drug to the dharma, many years ago -


    BuddhaaaaaaAHHHHCHOOOOOO! ... Buddha's Runny Nose ... waxing how even an annoying itchy nose is "Buddha" when known as such, yet we best take our allergy meds ...
    NOTE FROM JUNDO: I SPLIT THIS CONVERSATION FROM ANOTHER THREAD Thank you. This is a very clear description of the physical sensations during zazen. I very often have a runny nose after 30 minutes. I use the handkerchief. I wounder, if you could do the same description for the mental part. How would you describe the .....


    Bro. Brad on the Big Non-Payoff ... Dogen’s Circle of the Way ...
    A very nice article from Bro. Brad Warner on "Continuous Practice" ... By the way, I have given up on trying to get Brad here to lead a Zazenkai for us at Treeleaf. After months and months of promising, he kept pleading that he was too busy and promised it would be soon and soon. I have finally given up, and


    Can a Zen fellow have big goals and ambitions? ... Sure! But depends how ...


    BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 35 ...
    Case 34 never ends, yet now comes ... Case 35: Rakubo's Acquiescence I feel that this Koan is another caution regarding students who have had a taste of Emptiness, some Opening or the like, and think they are fully Enlightened beings. Thus, in the story, the fellow comes with a lot of ego and pride, yet is all tongue tied



    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
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40471

    #2
    Let me add mention of this thread ... some amazing sewing by Taigu, Practice like rain ...

    Here are two pics of the Okesa being sewn in the nyohoe style with rain stitches. It sits in a garden if Kyoto as I was teaching today in the French Institute.
    Doing this is like being on an endless retreat and I ll have to see at laest two hours everyday until August to complete it.
    I can understand why Sawaki Kodo liked it so much.
    Funzoe the latest news
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    • Myosha
      Member
      • Mar 2013
      • 2974

      #3
      Hello Jundo,

      Refused access. How may I earn the privilege. Thank you.


      Gassho,
      Myosha
      "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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      • Jundo
        Treeleaf Founder and Priest
        • Apr 2006
        • 40471

        #4
        Oh, sorry, I did not recall that the Kesa sewing circle is only for the actual sewers. Anyway, here is a picture of Taigu's amazing needlework ...

        Last edited by Jundo; 02-24-2014, 04:32 PM.
        ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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        • Jundo
          Treeleaf Founder and Priest
          • Apr 2006
          • 40471

          #5
          Also, this nice talk from Fugen is on thin ice ...

          Hi. A short talk about iceskating, and falling... http://youtu.be/zTNjnQ47qGw Link to blog of the iceskater mentioned, Victoria Helgesson: http://viktoriahelgesson.se/ Mtfbwy Fugen
          ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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