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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40307

    October 24th Recommended Threads

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

    Our friend Taikyo visited for a Zazen & Talk, and really nailed "It" ... please join in ... Special Zazenkai w/ Taikyo Morgans ...
    Dear All, Our Blue Mountain White Cloud Hermitage (http://www.bluemountainhermitage.org/#our-sangha) visits by old friends continue ... I am pleased to announce that our old Treeleaf friend and Taigu's heir, TAIKYO DAVID MORGANS, now guiding the wonderfully acronymed Z.A.W. (Zen Association Wales) (https://zenassociationwales


    ... as well as with our latest Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai (Welcoming Anshu Bryson to Tsukuba) ....
    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


    For our Jukai-guys ... BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 70 ... Questions on the Nature of Life ...
    Case 69 never ends, and so we question Case 70, Shinzan Questions the Nature of Life ... The central metaphor of the Koan is that a "bamboo" shoot is not yet mature as a grown bamboo, and until maturity there is an obstacle to the sheath of the bamboo being used in the making of bamboo rope. Yet, all is unborn as


    Also, let's give thanks ... Ango Practice Partner Exercise #3 ...


    Anshu relates a bit about his Sesshin experience at Japan's Anonji (LINK), and Jakuden and Washin on Sesshins they attended in America and Ukraine (LINK)

    Our new member Daikan posts a bit about his Zen Practice and life with cerebral palsy ... Zen On Wheels ...
    For those of you who don't know me yet, my name is Daikan Rising Crow. I'm a Zen Buddhist from Williamsport, Pennsylvania and I have severe Cerebral Palsy. Jundo has asked me to post often so that the sangha can get to know me better. I type with my head using a headpointer that I designed myself and use a power wheelchair to


    Kokuu recommends a talk by Taigen Leighton on Dogen's Four Basic Teachings ... (I haven't heard it yet, but if by Taigen it has to be good) ...
    Hi all I greatly enjoyed this teaching from Taigen Dan Leighton in which he lays out what he thinks are the four basic teachings from Dogen Zenji: http://audio.ancientdragon.org/20100124DT_ADZG_dogens_four_basic_teachings.mp3 For anyone wanting a heads-up beforehand, the four are: 1. Dropping off body and mind


    From our old Zazenkai member in Tsukuba ... Greetings from Kakunen (Mr. K.) now Training at Jyomanji ...
    Dear All, I pass on some greetings and news from "Mr. K." (now Kakunen), our regular sitter at the Saturday Zazenkai in Tsukuba. He undertook Ordination last year, and is now in Training at a Soto Zen Temple on the island of Shikoku here in Japan (I have never been to the temple, named 城満寺


    Thinking about generosity ... How not to be selfish but not too generous in the same time? ...
    Hello everyone, in my recent life, I seem to have a bigger problem with one specific topic: sharing things with people but not exaggerating it. I still go to school and there are already a few troubles I have. If someone needs money to buy a meal in one of the breaks, should I offer it without wanting to have it back? I




    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 long time member Taishi (Charles Taylor) has a new book of poetry I would like to introduce ... the title says it all: Meditations on Gratitude. Check it out ...

    Last edited by Jundo; 10-24-2016, 06:41 PM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    • Jakuden
      Member
      • Jun 2015
      • 6141

      #3
      Originally posted by Jundo
      Also, our long time member Taishi (Charles Taylor) has a new book of poetry I would like to introduce ... the title says it all: Meditations on Gratitude. Check it out ...

      https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-G...7334377&sr=1-2
      Wonderful! Just ordered this!
      Gassho
      Jakuden
      SatToday

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      • Tai Shi
        Member
        • Oct 2014
        • 3414

        #4
        Dearest Jundo and Sangha,
        This Zendo has become my refuge in so many ways--how could I ever pay back men like Sekishi, or Daizan, or Shingen and how can I thank you as to me like brothers and sisters. My friends, if I could only type a little faster. Mediations on Gratitude took six months to write, and the photography took from five years to three months; the dedication to my father, is only a part of the love I feel for my family and to think I can say that we all have some person or persons we care so much about we would give our lives for, that each of us came from somewhere and shall go somewhere when we die, and perhaps I have answered these most serious questions in my book and this is only for myself. You each have books yet written or unwritten in your mindfulness, your systematic view of family and life. And in part this is why we all have come to this Zendo, to find answers to these most important questions, and the reasons why we sit, some view of mortality or immortality, some answers why we live. Again, how could I thank you all for taking me in, for this long-distance Zendo, and most I have gratitude for our teacher Jundo for having the concept of Sangha serving our needs because we could find no place close to our homes.

        Tai Shi
        sat today
        Gassho and deepest bows
        Thank you
        Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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        • Tai Shi
          Member
          • Oct 2014
          • 3414

          #5
          How could I forget women who are entering the Priesthood who I have heard of for the first time, women who have always been there even at the time of the Buddha enunciation and acceptance, his mother and wife, into a different kind of life, or lives. And my mother who has written on her gravestone "Dorothy mother." My own mother who found solace in Christ, which is not far from my own view of Buddhism. Thank you mother for life, yes for my very life. Thank you for flesh an bones which you carried and gave to me life.

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

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