A TREELEAF PROJECT with EVERYONE’S PARTICIPATION REQUESTED: “LAH” (Lend A Hand)

[Risho]

Warren I hope your wife is feeling better.

So I'm confused; you mean to say that we actually have to sit before we can post that we sat for the day? I kid, I kid

This is a great idea; with all the crazy in the world, this is a great antidote.

Gassho

Risho
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[Daijo]

This is great.

Daijo

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[Troy]

After some thought I want to participate. I think my initial reaction was from feeling overwhelmed because I am still working on getting back to a daily meditation practice and participate more. An extra thing felt like a lot. But on reflection doable.


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Troy

[Mp]

After some thought I want to participate. I think my initial reaction was from feeling overwhelmed because I am still working on getting back to a daily meditation practice and participate more. An extra thing felt like a lot. But on reflection doable.


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Troy

Good to hear Troy....welcome aboard the LAH train. =)

Gassho
Shingen

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[Jakugan]

I think this is a fantastic idea.

Gassho,

Jakugan

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[Troy]

Good to hear Troy....welcome aboard the LAH train. =)

Gassho
Shingen

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Troy

[Jundo]

....welcome aboard the LAH train. =)

(why the cat? Very Zen.)

Gassho, J

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[Gokai]

Hello everyone
Very good project! I want to join everyone in this. Thank You very much for this beatiful project, Jundo.
I am grateful for sharing this practice with all of You.
Gassho, Gokai
Sattoday

[Theophan]

Thanks Jundo,
What a wonderful group practice idea. I'm in.
Being disabled and homebound, doing lend a hand (LAH) daily may take some creative thinking on my part.
I will do what I can. I look forward to the practice. I need to get back into the swing of things. This practice will help me regain my focus.
Gassho,
Theophan
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[Jundo]

Thanks Jundo,
What a wonderful group practice idea. I'm in.
Being disabled and homebound, doing lend a hand (LAH) daily may take some creative thinking on my part.
I will do what I can. I look forward to the practice. I need to get back into the swing of things. This practice will help me regain my focus.
Gassho,
Theophan
Sat Today

"Do what I can" is all that it takes, and there is always something big or small that can be done!

Found this on line, not much idea about it ...



(Apparently, it is written for a group in Boston, the "Lend a Hand" Society, who help poor inner-city families fund decent housing ...

http://www.lend-a-hand-society.org/

Gassho, J

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[Jundo]

Oh, apparently it is a quote by American author, historian, Unitarian minister and philanthropist Edward Everett Hale (granted, some of his ways of putting things below are rather 19th Century ... but he meant well ... )

Five years out of Harvard, after several successful interim ministries Hale settled as pastor of the Unitarian church in Worcester, MA. The congregation was close enough to Boston by train for him to keep in touch with his family, and open to their minister being a social advocate, in this case, for the Irish emigrants who arrived in Worcester fleeing from the potato famine.

Edward Hale quickly took up the cause of refugee relief, both the immediate relief of charity, and the further relief of finding opportunities for the refugees to find work and flourish in their new homeland. Hale combined his activism for the Irish with his activism for emancipation by founding the New England Emigrant Aid Society to help fund emigrants willing to move into the new Western states and keep them free states. In Worcester he organized a group that settled in what became Lawrence, Kansas. The support from the Emigrant Aid Society was crucial because the new settlers met with much violence from southerners opposed to a new free state. ...

Edward Hale had long been an activist for emancipation as well as for the education of freed slaves. Unlike many abolitionists and emancipationists, who wanted freedom for blacks but still considered them inferior intellectually, Edward Hale contended that blacks had an “equal capacity for learning as whites.” ...

... Perhaps the most lasting achievement of Hale’s life was the result of a magazine he published for five years called Old and New. Among its first serials was one by Hale, titled Ten Times One is Ten. Based on the life of a dear friend from Hale’s Worcester days, Edward Greenleaf, it tells the story of mourners meeting at the funeral of a friend and each relating how the man had changed their lives. They decide to form a club in his memory with the motto: “Look up and not down. Look forward and not back. Look out and not in. Lend a hand.” ...

... Eventually the clubs came to be known as Lend a Hand Clubs and by 1886, Edward Hale was editing a new monthly journal, Lend A Hand: A Record of Progress, which reported the activities of the clubs and also included articles on social issues of the day, such as Indian Rights. Although the Lend A Hand Clubs are no longer, the Lend A Hand Society in Boston has served as a nonsectarian benevolent organization which each month for over 100 years has lent a hand by giving out small but crucial grants to those facing financial crises, as well as giving out grants for camperships for Boston youth and book grants to institutions throughout the country. Lend A Hand is funded by an endowment and from gifts from the public

And Theophan, kinda looks like you with them 19th Century whiskers!

Gassho, J

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[Tai Shi]

I spent yesterday afternoon with my volunteer job and with my mental health support group NAMI the National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI Connection helping those liked myself fully myself with sever mental illnesses mine fully recovered according to my providers in psychological AND psychiatric professionals.

Tai Shi
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Gassho

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[Tai Shi]

Hi Jundo and All, Tai Shi here and in an unusual mode, I am looking for helpful words, an you might know that as a 65-old-male very happily married to the love of my life, still I follow the words of Jakuden very closely, and I like so much about what she says with openness and candor; I wonder if I might have limits to money and always allowing my own helping nature to come forward. Truly I am a helping man, and this I have been told by the best of therapists. And yet, I find myself coming to an end of giving sometimes, and money which I send to only one charity enough, and having to put limits on taking friends. What do you think?
Tai Shi Helped today,
sat to day
Gassho

[Jishin]

Intent is of utmost importance. It is priceless.

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Jundo]

Hi Taishi,

One does what one can, which may change with time and each day.

Gassho, Jundo

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