My daughter and fiance's car accident and Ango: One in the same

[Kotei]

Thank you for the good news!
Gassho,
Kotei just sat.

[Ryudo]

Sending Metta to you and your family Alexander.

Gassho/SatToday

[Mp]

Update:
Everyone is recovering wonderfully. The little one has remarkably transitioned into her first 4 days of Kindergarden. My fiance is healing well. Stitches get looked at Friday.

Deep bows to all of you. I've shared your kind words with my family as I received them. It helped keep her spirits up knowing all of you, from around the world, were thinking of us. Thank you all.

Gassho,
Alexander
ST/LAH

Glad everything worked out Alexander. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Doshin]

Doshin
St

[Joyo]

Update:
Everyone is recovering wonderfully. The little one has remarkably transitioned into her first 4 days of Kindergarden. My fiance is healing well. Stitches get looked at Friday.

Deep bows to all of you. I've shared your kind words with my family as I received them. It helped keep her spirits up knowing all of you, from around the world, were thinking of us. Thank you all.

Gassho,
Alexander
ST/LAH

I am very happy that everyone has made a recovery, Alexander. That is such great news!!

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today/lah

[Seishin]

Great news.

[Meitou]

Wonderful news, huzzah!

Gassho
Meitou
satwithyoualltodaylah

[Kyoshin]

Update:
Everyone is recovering wonderfully. The little one has remarkably transitioned into her first 4 days of Kindergarden. My fiance is healing well. Stitches get looked at Friday.

Deep bows to all of you. I've shared your kind words with my family as I received them. It helped keep her spirits up knowing all of you, from around the world, were thinking of us. Thank you all.

Gassho,
Alexander
ST/LAH

Hooray for good news!
Gassho
Nick
Satlah

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[Jundo]

Hooray for good news!
Gassho
Nick
Satlah

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As long as we don't forget to "Hooray" for bad new too. Maybe not quite the same "Hooray" ... maybe a "Hooray" even as tears come down our cheeks, maybe "Hooray" as we are moaning and groaning in the sick bed ... but "Hooray" nonetheless, for life itself. Zen folks are strange birds. We welcome all of it.

There is an old Zen saying … NICHI NICHI KORE KONICHI (日々是好日), Everyday is a good day, said by Yunmen, Kodo Sawaki and others. They were referring to something much much more than just some naive optimism ...

NICHI NICHI KORE KONICHI

Every Day Is A Good Day

Some old preaching ...


SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: gratitude & Great Gratitude

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?11275-SIT-A-LONG-with-Jundo-gratitude-Great-Gratitude

... there is a greater, transcendent, boundless Gratitude in the Buddha's Teachings that does not even need the subtle "see the bright side" "find the positive to counter the negative" or "personal pay-off of what's ultimately nice for 'me'" in the above sense of ordinary gratitude. Rather, there's an even Greater "Non-Pay-off" than that! A Jewel so precious, it shines as both earthly jewels and life's thrown bricks and stones in our shoe.

Ordinary human gratitude is what we are encouraged to feel in the above exercise, and it is fine. In fact, it is wise, healthy and important. Yet there is a "Buddha's Gratitude" which is not dependent on what we "like" that momentarily pleases the selfish-self, that is not based simply on "looking out for the good side" or experiencing the "gorgeous" day. This Emptiness that is all Fullness -is- both the glass "half full" and "half empty!"

A Buddha's Gratitude is Vast and Unlimited ... a Gratitude both for that which we love and that which we may not ...

Gassho, J

STLah

[Koki]

Thank you Jundo.
Always a welcome reminder..can't have flowers without the rain

Gassho
Frank
Satoday

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[Kyoshin]

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[Kyonin]

As long as we don't forget to "Hooray" for bad new too. Maybe not quite the same "Hooray" ... maybe a "Hooray" even as tears come down our cheeks, maybe "Hooray" as we are moaning and groaning in the sick bed ... but "Hooray" nonetheless, for life itself. Zen folks are strange birds. We welcome all of it.

Thank you for this reminder, Jundo.

Bad news are part of life too and we stand open to them as well.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH