I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please sit with our May 15th-16th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... available for sitting, anywhere anytime ...
Celebrating the lovely, helpful, informal get-togethers of the Treeleaf Teaparty ... 5-year ANNIVERSARY! (Your contribution is very welcome!) ...
... including a talk by its facilitator, Fugen ...
Where do you truly live? ... Grass Hut - 11 - Places Worldy People Live, He Doesn't Live ...
A short sweet right to the heart re-mind-er from our friend Daiho Hilbert ... The Zen of Nothing ...
Sitting with and right through Mara, the Buddhist "Devil" ... the sadness, grief, anxiety, grinding boredom, fear and all the rest filling head and heart ...
Buddhism & science ... when they fit and when they may not ...
A self-reflection by our Sekishi ... On living as "A Child of Buddha" ...
The latest message from Mr. Kominamidate, our regular Zazenkai member in Tsukuba, who is now residing at Antaiji ...
... and many more fine threads if ya poke around ...
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.
Oh, and we do ask folks to note that they have SAT ZAZEN THE PREVIOUS DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):
Gassho, Jundo
SatToday!
Please sit with our May 15th-16th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... available for sitting, anywhere anytime ...
Celebrating the lovely, helpful, informal get-togethers of the Treeleaf Teaparty ... 5-year ANNIVERSARY! (Your contribution is very welcome!) ...
... including a talk by its facilitator, Fugen ...
Where do you truly live? ... Grass Hut - 11 - Places Worldy People Live, He Doesn't Live ...
A short sweet right to the heart re-mind-er from our friend Daiho Hilbert ... The Zen of Nothing ...
Sitting with and right through Mara, the Buddhist "Devil" ... the sadness, grief, anxiety, grinding boredom, fear and all the rest filling head and heart ...
Buddhism & science ... when they fit and when they may not ...
A self-reflection by our Sekishi ... On living as "A Child of Buddha" ...
The latest message from Mr. Kominamidate, our regular Zazenkai member in Tsukuba, who is now residing at Antaiji ...
... and many more fine threads if ya poke around ...
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.
Oh, and we do ask folks to note that they have SAT ZAZEN THE PREVIOUS DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):
Gassho, Jundo
SatToday!