I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
To tell the truth, our next Precept for Jukai ... PRECEPTS VI - To Refrain from Untruth ...
Please sit with our November MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! ...
The Talk for the Zazenkai looked at Dogen's riffing on the "Tree in the Garden" Koan, also our subjectless topic here, from the Book of Equinimity ...
Sam introduces an AMAZING exposition of Shikantaza ... recommended reading for all! ... Art of Zazen by Nyogen Roshi ...
Philosophical reflections on Zen and Buddhism in a consumer society prone to excess ... Consumer Buddhism ...
The Buddha offered the medicine for "Suffering" ... yet life can still be a pain! ... The second noble truth
Introducing our member Daizan's Buddhist inspired (and inspiring) art project ... I took the crazy Leap ...
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
To tell the truth, our next Precept for Jukai ... PRECEPTS VI - To Refrain from Untruth ...
Please sit with our November MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! ...
The Talk for the Zazenkai looked at Dogen's riffing on the "Tree in the Garden" Koan, also our subjectless topic here, from the Book of Equinimity ...
Sam introduces an AMAZING exposition of Shikantaza ... recommended reading for all! ... Art of Zazen by Nyogen Roshi ...
Philosophical reflections on Zen and Buddhism in a consumer society prone to excess ... Consumer Buddhism ...
The Buddha offered the medicine for "Suffering" ... yet life can still be a pain! ... The second noble truth
Introducing our member Daizan's Buddhist inspired (and inspiring) art project ... I took the crazy Leap ...
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