"Simple Living" - Chapters 25 and 26

[Jundo]

Just jump in if joining, no "catch up" ... just today is today ...

Chapter 25 - Get In Touch With Nature - Make a little miniature garden in a shoe box with just some dirt, pebbles, twigs and fallen leaves. Or take a minute or two to just make one in one's mind. Or just encounter a single stone, or leaf or flower this week, really stop to hold it, smell it, look for a moment. Nothing to think about it, nothing to change, a jewel as it is.

Chapter 26 - Create A Small Garden - Sit a little Zazen on a big rock or under a tree, or next to your shoe box garden, or in your mind garden, or next to that single stone, leaf or flower.

Gassho, J

STLah

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Kotei]

Thank you.
This basic, everyday things (small as #25 or large as #26) are indeed so wonderful and special. Good to pay some attention from time to time.
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Junkyo]

Thank you Jundo!

Gassho,

Junkyo
SAT

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[Ishin]

Today.. I'm joining..
Thank you

Gassho
Ishin
Sat Today/lah

[Shonin Risa Bear]

_()_

gassho
doyu sattoday

[Kokuu]

I imagine it is no problem, but these exercises are #27 and #28 in my book.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-

[Jundo]

I imagine it is no problem, but these exercises are #27 and #28 in my book.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-

Ha, Oh yes. I will adjust them. It is actually 25 and 27.

New 26 is : - Sit a little Zazen on a big rock or under a tree, or next to your shoe box garden, or in your mind garden, or next to that single stone, leaf or flower.

Gassho, Jundo

[Nengei]

Gassho,
然芸 Nengei
Sat today. LAH.

You deserve to be happy.
You deserve to be loved.

[Tairin]

Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Tokan]

Tokan, sattdy

[krissydear]

thank you
krissy
st

[Ishin]

Sat today next to a little bamboo plant in my office that is actually not very pretty,not growing well, not well liked by me. That is why I chose it.
Gassho
Ishin
Sat/lah

[Shonin Risa Bear]

"Every plant is the good plant"

said doyu, looking nervously over at the poison oak

gassho
doyu sat/lah today

[Sekishi]

"Every plant is the good plant"

said doyu, looking nervously over at the poison oak

Indeed!

I don’t want to go too far off on a tangent, but this really struck me.

“Good” and “evil” can be such sticky concepts with lots of baggage attached. Can we remember the “innocence” of so many conditions that may harm us?

When I find myself yet again chasing thoughts of worry or sadness, I find it helpful not to get frustrated with them as “bad”. They arise in innocence- gifts of culture and ancestors and evolution.

The poison oak is indeed a good plant. It is innocently utilizing the gift of its ancestors to protect itself. Let us leave it be!

Thank you for this Doyu.

Deep bows,
Sekishi
#sat #itchy



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