I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please sit our weekly 90 minute Zazenkai for this week (which is actually the week before
) ... July 22nd-23rd Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ...
... and our monthly 4 hour Zazenkai is always sitable too ...
The Koan at the Heart of Shikantaza ... Not Very Good at Zazen ... yet Zazen is beyond all good and bad! ....
Continuing our Koans of the Book of Serenity too ... recently with poison snakes and old cows ...
Anyone ever used a meditation journal? ... and why it may miss the point of this "nothing to realize" Shikantaza way ...
Introducing chanting in to my routine ... some folks benefit from a bit of song ... and some chants often heard around this place ...
... including some other practices that some folks may resonate with for an At Home Liturgy ...
A powerful experience in Zazen and how to allow such to flow ... into the void ...
Let's focus on a ... Question on "object of concentration" ...
Some folks are really into our Treeleaf group on Insight Timer ...
I am so glad if this place and the practice are benefiting you. If so, you might consider a DONATION to Treeleaf at this LINK, although there is absolutely no need or requirement to do so. Thank you.
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
Please sit our weekly 90 minute Zazenkai for this week (which is actually the week before
) ... July 22nd-23rd Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ...
... and our monthly 4 hour Zazenkai is always sitable too ...
The Koan at the Heart of Shikantaza ... Not Very Good at Zazen ... yet Zazen is beyond all good and bad! ....
Continuing our Koans of the Book of Serenity too ... recently with poison snakes and old cows ...
Anyone ever used a meditation journal? ... and why it may miss the point of this "nothing to realize" Shikantaza way ...
Introducing chanting in to my routine ... some folks benefit from a bit of song ... and some chants often heard around this place ...
... including some other practices that some folks may resonate with for an At Home Liturgy ...
A powerful experience in Zazen and how to allow such to flow ... into the void ...
Let's focus on a ... Question on "object of concentration" ...
Some folks are really into our Treeleaf group on Insight Timer ...
I am so glad if this place and the practice are benefiting you. If so, you might consider a DONATION to Treeleaf at this LINK, although there is absolutely no need or requirement to do so. Thank you.
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