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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40307

    October 15th Recommended Threads

    I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ... (looks like I missed a week! )

    A pearl of a sit with Myozan Kodo and a talk on Master Dogen's One Bright Pearl (or Jewel) ...
    Dear All, I am pleased to announce that our old Treeleaf friend and Taigu's heir, Myozan Kodo Kilroy, now guiding the Zen Buddhism Ireland Sangha (http://www.zenbuddhism.ie/) in Dublin, will be joining us for a very special Zazenkai and Talk SATURDAY OCTOBER 15th, LIVE. Please come sit with us. Myozan is also a poet and


    And never too late to sit our 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


    ... and this month's 4-Hour Monthly Zazenkai too ...
    Today's Talk will shine on Cases from the Book of Serenity & Master Dogen's Kyōjukaimon (text below) We welcome Shugen and Shingen as our Shuso 'Head Seats' to guide Ango and Jukai this month, and thank Daizan and Sekishi for their hard work during the past weeks. Shokai and Kyonin continue to keep a light hand on the


    For our Jukai folks and everyone ... To Refrain from Stealing ...


    ... and from Misusing Sexuality too (often another kind of greed and taking) ...


    Ango is ongoing ... Ango Practice Partner Exercise #2 ...


    Trillions of new galaxies discovered ... each one just you, and you each and all that ...
    ... and no matter how many there be, one or none, a trillion or bopabillion ... ... all is just you and you just that. And that is all. Gassho, J SatToday PS - ... and no matter how many there be, one or none, a trillion or bopabillion ... ... all is just you and you just that. And that is all.


    Zen answers trillions of big questions ... sometimes beyond big and small, sometimes by asking "what questions?" ...
    What is zen? I am beginning to realise that this is like the question, what is poetry? or perhaps what is art? It is dangerous to answer the question. I am beginning to think that zen is questioning and that the greatest teaching may be, we will never know. Questions without answers. Questions that don't need answers.


    When life is like chaos, that is just your monastery ... Rush into Chaos ...
    Over the past to weeks I have been put under a lot of strain. Last week my brother bought my parents house, where I currently reside. House rules changed and super cleaning arise. No problem except for the fact that I work full-time, study full-time and since the beginning of our Jukai and Ango I have taken up a study of the


    Some of our new "beginners videos" ...

    ... this on pain ...



    ... and Zendo Decorum ... both featuring Yuriko the Cat ...






    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):

    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
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    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40307

    #2
    Also, our latest Book of Equanimity entry ... Case 69, Nansen's Cats and Cows ...
    Case 68 never ends, and so we trot to Case 69, Nansen's Cats and Cows ... I have a bad head cold today, one which makes complex thinking hard and the world much reduced. Perhaps the perfect state for this Koan. There is actually some disagreement among old commentators on the meaning, as Shishin hints. However, I will take my
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    • Jundo
      Treeleaf Founder and Priest
      • Apr 2006
      • 40307

      #3
      And a big "thank you" for posting this ... Ango Practice Partner Exercise #3 ...
      ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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      • Tai Shi
        Member
        • Oct 2014
        • 3414

        #4
        So Sorry I cannot complete Ango or Jukai because of severe health problems, but when this is over, it will be life changing. My eyes are moist. Thank you my dear friends. My eyes are moist.

        std
        Tai Shi
        Gassho
        Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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        • RichardH
          Member
          • Nov 2011
          • 2800

          #5
          Originally posted by Tai Shi
          So Sorry I cannot complete Ango or Jukai because of severe health problems, but when this is over, it will be life changing. My eyes are moist. Thank you my dear friends. My eyes are moist.

          std
          Tai Shi
          Gassho
          Thank you, Tai Shi. Take care. We are here.

          Gassho
          Daizan

          sat today

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          • Shugen
            Treeleaf Unsui
            • Nov 2007
            • 4535

            #6
            Hi Tai Shi,

            The wonderful thing about practice is that it never goes anywhere. It is always there. Your Ango is your life.

            Gassho,

            Shugen

            Sattoday


            Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
            Meido Shugen
            明道 修眼

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            • Mp

              #7
              Originally posted by Tai Shi
              So Sorry I cannot complete Ango or Jukai because of severe health problems, but when this is over, it will be life changing. My eyes are moist. Thank you my dear friends. My eyes are moist.

              std
              Tai Shi
              Gassho
              Tai Shi, take care of yourself, this is your practice ... and in doing so, you are practicing the precepts. Ango means "peaceful dwelling", allow this peace to reside in you regardless of what life brings, this too is practice.

              We are here if you need us! =)

              Gassho
              Shingen

              s@today

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              • Jakuden
                Member
                • Jun 2015
                • 6141

                #8
                Originally posted by Tai Shi
                So Sorry I cannot complete Ango or Jukai because of severe health problems, but when this is over, it will be life changing. My eyes are moist. Thank you my dear friends. My eyes are moist.

                std
                Tai Shi
                Gassho
                Someone who knows more than me can correct me here, but it sounds to me like you are living Ango and the Precepts every moment, Tai Shi. How could you not? We are sitting with you and sending Metta.

                Gassho,
                Jakuden
                SatToday

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                • Shokai
                  Treeleaf Priest
                  • Mar 2009
                  • 6393

                  #9
                  TaiShi, as four members have now said, there is no way you are out, you are living Ango and Jukai. Be gentle with yourself.

                  much metta and gassho

                  sat Today
                  合掌,生開
                  gassho, Shokai

                  仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

                  "Open to life in a benevolent way"

                  https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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                  • Tai Shi
                    Member
                    • Oct 2014
                    • 3414

                    #10
                    All I can say is that you all are life changing, that the world does revolve properly around the sun, that means none or all of us are so important to each of us, that is what? Inter-being? You teach me inter-being when I come to the keyboard which I punch with one finger. Yes, every time I come here--and tonight I will feel should I say it, no, I say only that you are important to me,

                    Tai Shi
                    std
                    Gassho
                    Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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