We Are All in This Together (1)

[Jundo]

Hi Everyone,

I'm making a special place right now we're we can all just focus on one thing for awhile. We are all in this together. I will post some words each day to help us keep some perspective, and all our Sangha members can come here to just be together, share together, laugh and cry together for awhile. There is a something that sweeps in even all of this, trust me on that. - Jundo

https://youtu.be/aTzblrb0-Hk

Gassho, J

[Doshin]

Doshin
St

[Geika]

This message uplifted me greatly. "Shall we sit with that?"

Gassho
Sat today, lah

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[Jundo]

This message uplifted me greatly. "Shall we sit with that?"

Gassho
Sat today, lah

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Hear you had a rough day, Geika, workwise. Yes?

Gassho, J

SatTOday

[Onka]

Gassho
Onka
Sat today

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[Jundo]

Folks can start threads here, by the way, just like in the rest of the forum. Also, we don't just have to talk about ... you know what.

I am also temporarily suspending the "SatToday" requirement for posting, if people find it just too hard for them right now. They can still come here and let off steam. However, "sattoday" is still encouraged for those who can.

Gassho, Jundo

SatToday

[Onka]

I'm not necessarily starting a thread, just participating, but hey let's do this!
My lungs are not playing nice at the moment and I feel and look like a pufferfish from the amount of steroids haha but tonight I'm going to go for a short walk, probably not more than a couple of hundred metres unfortunately.
My partner and I are not experts at identifying all of the local wildlife and we might not see anything but fingers crossed we'll be able to get a couple of pics to share.
Be kind to yourselves and look out for each other.
Gassho
Onka
ST

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[Yokai]

Hi Treeleaf Family, it's so special being able to sit n share across all borders with you at this time (even in NZ). Metta and peace to you all, my friends.
Thank you Jundo and team for this amazing Treeleaf vision/reality of interconnectedness.
Deepest bows. We are only a screen apart...

Tech Question: Is there an easy way for peeps to post up FSR slots, so others can sit with company? E.g. the Euro crew have a daily 7:30-800am-ish FSR drop-in. Just a thought...jumping online to sit alone is a tumbleweed moment!

[Kotei]

Indeed, we're in this all together.
Thank you for the teaching, that lies in how you're shaping Treeleaf for the coming weeks. I pictured it differently, but appreciate your approach very much.

Gassho,
Kotei sattoday. (not lah yet, because the second hand clothes distribution in the refugee shelter, I would be working at today, was shut down by government order.)

[Onka]

I could only walk a couple of hundred metres because my lungs are not in great shape but here's a snippet of stuff we saw. Unfortunately there were a few Froglets that were too fast for me or my partner to capture.
Be kind to yourself and look out for each other.
Gassho
Onka
Sat today

https://youtu.be/CojEQBsDJio

https://youtu.be/1wNwziUG0wA

https://youtu.be/5E8FPlhs-FI

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[Koki]

Thank you for your Wisdom Jundo. I agree we're all in this together. My wife is a registered nurse, so we are in the midst of this daily.
I'm trying to reach out online to people to offer calm words of reassurance.
I continue my practice of daily Qigong, followed with sitting shikantanza.
I like the daily snippets idea from Jundo also. Just feels right to be in touch.

We got this 🙏

Gassho
Koki

Satoday

[Kyotai]

Thank you. Wonderful talk

Gassho Kyotai
St

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[Tai Shi]

In Time of Pandemic

We entered our home
Three days ago.
Doctors screened me
At our Hospital.
Temp 99.
Doctor tells me I'm
Resilient, to wait for my Zendo,
A sitting practice at 8:30.
"All our World is our Temple."
Zendo the Buddha taught
Us as Jundo teaches
Us Shikantaza.
All is Just

Sitting with our breath
We sit to offer friends
Family hope, hopefulness,
Hope is strongest
In space, and we matter
In time, or no time.
We live now in just
Sitting, then turn
To our families, friends
We sit together, remain
Together; sit Metta
For all. Sit together,
Metta for each other
For world confused,
25 billion years
Come to this,
With all compassion,
Equanimity, gratitude.
What do I have to offer?
Tai Shi
sat lah
Gassho

Thank you, Jundo.

[Kokuu]

Thank you, Jundo!

Just to let everyone know also that the priests are going to try to be here as much as we can and please reach out to us if you need support or help with anything.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-

[Shoki]

I was just on the phone with a relative who was sitting next to someone at a work meeting who was tested positive. He is locked in the house with his 13-year old son trying to stay sane. I was just saying how our grandparents and parents had hard lives. Leaving their own countries, narrowly escaping fascism and nazism, growing up during the depression of the 1930s. My father was so poor they used to get food packages from Europe. As newly arrived immigrants being treated like foreign invaders, regularly arrested and harassed by the police. Then off to World War II and try to survive that and come home in one piece. Speaking with them, these events defined them. They did not have easy lives. Maybe this will be what defines us in some way.

Gassho
STlah
James