GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (DECEMBER)

[don321]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Hello Everyone!

thanks for letting me join your Forum, I'm looking forward to learning more about Soto Zen,

best wishes,

Don

[Shohei]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Hello Eileen and Don, and Welcome.
Gassho, Dirk

[Sunshine]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Hello, everyone. This is Sunshine aka Lara. I live in Hobbs, New Mexico. I'm so glad I found you all, becuase I've been looking for an online community for quite some time. I have been doing buddhist meditation for over two years (vipassana), but have really taken an interest in Zen recently. :P

Looking forward to getting to know you all,

Gassho

Lara

[Shohei]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Hi & Welcome Lara!

/me breaks out in to Sunshine by Nazareth....

Gassho, Dirk

[KellyRok]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Hello all,

Welcome to Treeleaf Eileen, Don, and Sunshine (Lara)! It is great to have you all here.

Gassho,
Kelly Rok

[Kent]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Hi Melanie, Brian, Eileen,!! Don,and Lara welcome to Treeleaf ! Kent

[Bill]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Hello and Hey everyone. I am new to the community. My beloved bride Lara and I are excited to a part of you. I look forward to new learning.

[Eika]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Welcome Bill, Lara, Eileen, Don, Melanie, and Brian.
Glad you found the place,

Bill

[will]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

I haven't welcomed anyone in a while:

Belated welcome to Treeleaf guys.

Gassho

Will

[roky]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

welcome, melanie, eileen, don, lara, and bill

lara and bill, we will soon be passing near your way, on our way to our winter home of why, az

gassho, bob

[lora]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Hello, Everyone,

Welcome to Treeleaf.

Many blessings,
Lora

[chessie]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Welcome to all newcomers! ann

[Damian]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (SEPTEMBER)

Yes, Welcome to Treeleaf

Gassho,
Damian

[Nagaruda]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (OCTOBER)

Hi Everyone,

I'm Zachariah. I live in Michigan in the USA. I'm 35, husband of one and father of two and striving Buddhist. It's taken me a long bit of time to take up a label, having been born, raised and soured in Catholicism. It's always tough to abandon a religion where loss of faith / doubts will earn you a trip to an eternal lake of fire, so I one upped into a world view of several levels of hell (but buddhas in each one LOL. I've really enjoyed moving from a sacred / philosophical perspective of guilt and stricture to one of query and conditioned reality. To me Treeleaf is like touching earth, laughing at a flower held up ...

I've been pretty interested in all the flavors of Shakyamuni's idea from the hinyana (too many precepts), to mahayana (too many beings to liberate), to vajrayana (too out there) [JUST KIDDING [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[Sho Nin]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (OCTOBER)

Hi all,

I've been practicing Soto Zen for 6 or 7 years now and I took Jukai just under a year and a half ago. I suppose at the moment I'm just looking for a nice place to hang out online and talk to others on the path.

Greetings all

Justin