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

Dispelling delusions ... SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Why Zen Folks FAIL!! (I) - A New Video & Podcast Series ...
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Why Zen Folks FAIL!! (1) - A New Video & Podcast Series - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?13485-SIT-A-LONG-with-Jundo-Why-Zen-Folks-FAIL%21%21-%28I%29-A-New-Video-Podcast-Series
Zen folks fail because we're IGNORANT, DELUDED sentient beings, of course! But more specifically, because of several common mistakes and misguided assumptions among many Zen students new and old (and by so-called Zen Teachers too). This is the first of a NEW VIDEO/AUDIO PODCAST SERIES and, over the coming weeks, I will look at


Please sit with our May 22nd-23rd Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ...
May 22nd-23rd Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?13487-May-22nd-23rd-Treeleaf-Weekly-Zazenkai
Hello All, Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast from 10am Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 9pm, Los Angeles 6pm (Friday night), London 2am and Paris 3am (early Saturday morning) ... and to be visible on the following screen during those times and sit


Love, love, love ... in the "Beyond Words" Book Club, Grass Hut - 12 - "What Do You Mean ... 'Love'"? ...
Grass Hut - 12 - "What Do You Mean ... 'Love'"? - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?13489-Grass-Hut-12-What-Do-You-Mean-Love
Dear Loving and Loved, Our topic this time is LOVE ... Chapter 8, "What Do you Mean When You Say Love/Realms Worldly People Love, He Doesn't Love" ... Has Buddhist Practice had positive effects on how you love? Less clinging? More allowing? More other directed? This is the point when I must remind folks that


Lovely sentiments from our Joyo, resonating of the Verse of Atonement ... A Buddhist prayer of forgiveness ...
A Buddhist prayer of forgiveness - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?13488-A-Buddhist-prayer-of-forgiveness
I found this today, I did not write it, and I do not know who did. If I have harmed anyone in anyway, either knowingly or unknowingly Through my own confusions, I ask for their forgiveness. If anyone has harmed me in anyway, either knowingly or unknowingly Through their own confusions, I forgive them. And if there is a


Happy Birthday ... What should I do for the Vesak? (Buddha's Birthday) ...
What should I do for the Vesak? - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?13490-What-should-I-do-for-the-Vesak
Dear all, I've been given the day off for the Vesak, which is officially in Europe the 1st of JUne. How should I celebrate? I was thinking of doing a Sesshin at home, but I don't know if this is a good idea or not. Any ideas or knowledge would be helpful. Sincerely, Peter. gassho1


Did you know you are the center of the universe (and everything else too)? ... part of The Wall ...
Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?13486-The-Wall&p=154597&viewfull=1#post154597


From Yugen ... Notes from the Field: the glacial moraine and mountains walking ...
Notes from the Field: the glacial moraine and mountains walking - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?13484-Notes-from-the-Field-the-glacial-moraine-and-mountains-walking
It’s been a very rough couple weeks. My brother and I just transferred our father to a nursing home – he’s 88 years old and was no longer able to live at home with his wife - they've been together 62 years and inseparable for all of that time – he’s only eight minutes from home yet the physical separation is very painful for




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):

SatToday - Make sure you have SAT before joining in forum CHAT! - Treeleaf Zendo
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?12995-Signing-SatToday-Please-Sat-before-Forum-Chat
Dear All, Treeleaf Sangha is a Practice Place centered on the daily Sitting of Shikantaza Zazen. We ask all our members to have sat Zazen sometime in the preceding day (today or yesterday) before posting in this Forum and joining in discussion. Please have "Sat" before any "Chat". gassho1 Also, both as


Gassho, Jundo

SatToday!