Continuing our Precepts reflections ... PRECEPTS IV - To Refrain from Stealing ...
Please sit with our October 10th-11th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ...
Souls, rebirth and 49 days ... A quick question... (JUNDO: That may take lifetimes to answer!!) ...
What is special about Shikantaza? Everything and nothing and all things ... Same taste...
A question about all the bells and whistles ... Question on chanting ...
A talk by Fugen: Meditation and study ...
And an Important Discussion: Donation Update ... please have a look ...
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