GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (DECEMBER)

[cucchilou]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Hi! Jbojanis,

Welcome to this community: this is a wonderful place indeed; i have
personnally little experience with it 'cause I've just joined it but have
been sitting here a-long for a couple of months. The only fact this exists
is already great in itself.

Beside this point, Jundo is a very inspiring
and dedicated teacher and you'll find here lots of very friendly folks.

I personnally live in France, in a very small town of Burgundy, surrounded
by woods and no zen friend around (as far as i know) ; i fortunately live in a house with a
wild garden, share the place with 2 friendly dogs, do zazen everyday, love
Nature & music and have a 15 year old son in Netherlands... well, just to
give you an idea...

Hoping you'll find inspiration & more on this site and to hear of you
sometime, best wishes to you & your beloved,

Gassho, Cucchilou

[cucchilou]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Sitting,

Less thought, yet clearer
Few words or steps, more action
Light and breath in love

Gassho, Cucchilou

[jcsuperstar]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

gassho,

hello my name is jc. i live in a small town in alaska. i was apart of a soto comunity years ago and studied under a japanese priest. however i quit attending after a rather painful divorce and moving away from the city that the group was located in. other than dogen, my fave zen authors is Uchiyama and i also enjoy brad warner since i too come from a back ground of being in punk bands, though i'm not as brash as he is

outside of zen i've lived in theravada temples in both america and thailand and i still spend time at them whenever i can as i'm friends with many thai and lao monks. IMO the thai tradition is quite compatable with zen especially the forest tradition and the ideas of ajahn buddhadasa (if you ever read him, i'm sure you'll feel right at home) who actually translated into thai the platform sutra and other zen texts (living in bangkok i even saw a thai version of dogen's zuimonki along side theravada texts!)

when i was still in my zen sangha i was working on my rakusu, but i never finished and never took judkai, and this has always bothered me =(

i hope to learn as much as i can here, and deepen my practice

with metta
jc

[Dosho]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Welcome to Treeleaf JC! And to anyone else I may have missed.

[chicanobudista]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Bienvenidos!

[cucchilou]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

JC,

Bienvenu, Welcome to Treeleaf

Gassho, Cucchilou

[HereNow]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Greetings All,

My name is Rod and I live in Los Angeles, CA. I came to Buddhism through my formal and informal studies of Western philosophy, consciousness studies (specifically the work of Susan Blackmore), and neuroscience. I recently became a member of the Hazy Moon Zen Center (William Nyogen Yeo Roshi).

I am also a full-time philosophy major/anthropology minor at a local college.

I look forward to learning and sharing on this forum and sangha.

Gassho,

Rod

[will]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Gassho Rod.

Welcome.

Will

[chicanobudista]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Bienvenido Rod! Gassho.....

[DavidConner]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Hello everyone.

Just thought I'd introduce myself. My name is David. I live near Nashville, TN. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone, especially considering that there is not much of a community anywhere near me. I have been sitting only the last few months, but have been studying Buddhism for several years now. I hope I might be able to contribute to the development of the sangha with some of that knowledge.

So this is awkward. Thank you for your time. It's a pleasure to meet all of you.



Gassho.

[Shohei]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Welcome JC, Rob and David!

So this is awkward

Hehe when isn't it

Gassho, Dirk

[cucchilou]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Hi! David and Rod, Welcome to Treeleaf, Welcome to Here & Now

Gassho, Cucchilou

[Myoshin]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Hello All,
My name is Kyle, and I am a senior in high school who plans to major in pre-medicine. I hail from Pennsylvania and am currently applying for college (yuck...the paper work is so tedious). I found this site by chance, sadly there are not many places in my area that practice Zen or any form of Buddhism for that matter, so I found Treeleaf through my random searching on the web. I mulled over the decision to join for a few days and after reading some of the material on the site and watching some videos from the blog, I decided to join. I have been sitting off and on now for about a year and a half, and really wanted to find others who did the same. Here in PA not many practice Buddhism nor know of it...or I have just not found many that do . I hope to strengthen my practice and I feel that a Sangha like this will aid in that goal. Well I look forward to chatting with others on this site...and of course sitting with you.

Thanks,
-Kyle

[Dosho]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (NOVEMBER)

Welcome to Treeleaf David and Kyle!

[JeffLegg]

Re: GREETINGS BY NEW FOLKS (DECEMBER)

Hello Treeleafers,

I realize that I never posted an introduction even though I've occassionally posted for a couple of months.

My name is Jeff Legg, and I live with my wife and son in Richmond, Va, USA. In addition we have a lot of animals: dogs, horses, cats, rats, gerbils, fish, and a Quaker parrot. I teach medical imaging at our local university.

I have been practicing for a little over a year now although I studied Buddhism a little during grad school. I have made a commitment to my practice and have witnessed at times some softening of my opinions and biases (I've written about that on a previous blog) and more calmness. I have also been a vegetarian for a little over a year which amazes all of my family/friends and doctor as I was a real carnivore! :lol:

I wrote Jundo several months ago regarding a question of dana for many of the homeless who are around our university (we're in the middle of the city). His suggestions were very helpful for me. I also made a commitment to either give to charity every payday. This has been very gratifying and fun and is a nice supplement to volunteering.

I would like to end by giving a little 'prop' to my students in our department at the university. We have an honor society that focuses a great deal on service. They have been great at conducting food drives, detergent drives for our local hospital hospitality house, and school supplies for an inner city elementary school. Not only am I proud of them but it is really nice to see some good work being doing by a very multicultural group of college kids--hope for the future.

I really love the sangha forum and the daily sessions/talks. I hope to participate in the Jukai ceremony in the future.

Jeff