Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

[Shohei]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Howdy
Helping my folks clean the flu and stove pipes (im am Chimney sweep!!) so I may be late, or just not there depending on how things go. Ill do my best to make it though

Gassho
Shohei

[Myozan Kodo]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi Fugen.
What time do you meet on Sundays? Is it in the meeting hall?
Gassho, Soen

[mydnight]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Sorry I missed it, I got called in to work to do a backup of one of our demo machines (Start Norton Ghost, click Next, and twiddle my fingers for a few hours while waiting for the hard drive to clone).

Gassho,

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

We meet at 21.00 (swedish time) on sundays on skype (please pm me or shohei your skypename so we can add you...) and you're always welcome.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Hogo]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hello everyone. Just a quick note to catch up on whats been up around the tea cooler.....
This weeks "Tea Party" Kicked off with some disscussion of ango practice, and our experiences with trying the Partner exercises.
The remainder of our time was spent on mostly general social conversation...A little this...a little that Always good practice, and great company.
We got to welcome a new voice to the conversation, and a self described "lurker" back to the forums and this years Ango
Always great to see new folks about!
Thank you all, see you next week!
Gassho~ Dave.

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

Just putting in a reminder of the treeleaf teaparty on sunday 21:00 (swedish time).

Everybody's welcome.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

A reminder of the treeleaf teaparty on sunday 21:00 (swedish time) on skype.

Everybody's welcome.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Shohei]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

I was volunteered as Secretary so here is the doin's that were a' transpirin'
Secretary was late, XD, discussed tofurky, eating vegetarians in Sweden, kids, writers block and creative block busting by singing, Chanting in Japanese, mantras, sitting groups, quitting smoking, football, ps3 vs wii vs xbox360 Ango and practice partners.
If i missed something My apologies I will quickly hand in my resignation papers!!

Gassho
Shohei

[Dosho]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

I think I'll nominate Julia (murasaki) for the full time gig...I think we all listened in awe to her boffo typing skills!

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

A reminder of the treeleaf teaparty on sunday 21:00 (swedish time) on skype.

Everybody's welcome.
Same time, same place.
Thank you for your practice.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Shohei]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hiya!
Unfortunately, I will have to miss this one

Gassho
Shohei

[mydnight]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Sorry I keep missing out -- It's not like it is particularly early (1 PM my time), however I usually look at the clock and realize that I've slept in and missed it :S. I really need to reduce my Saturday evening caffeine intake lol (bed-time on weekends often stretches to the five, six, or even seven in the morning mark)

Gassho,

[Tb]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Hi.

No problem, everybody's welcome whenever and if ever they want to drop in and join the fun.
Althought we seem to be bad at reporting what took place at the teaparty from time to time...

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Dosho]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Althought we seem to be bad at reporting what took place at the teaparty from time to time...

I have a sick little one home from school today...report coming soon...so, be patient!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Dosho]

Re: Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

Here's this week's tea party report:

We started by discussing the light turn out the last couple weeks and how we can encourage more folks to participate. Some people seem to come a few times and then don't come back. Wondering if there's a way to attract more people. However, that turned into a discussion of finding time in the day to do everything we have to do...so, we all have busy schedules.

Some discussion also of the practice partner exercises...are folks reading them? From others who stopped by it would appear the answer is yes, but not many reporting in after doing the exercises. Others (me included) pledge to try better at doing them.

The high level of activity on the "not killing" thread was mentioned, especially in relation to the other precept threads for jukai. This one seems to bring out a lot of differing opinions, heated ones too.

One person noted they had visited their aunt, a carmelite nun, who has extraordinary dedication to her faith. Can buddhists have such dedication when we are asked to regularly question what we believe (exclamation points rather than question marks)?

We learned that one regular at the tea party lives near "the apple market"...fruit stand or convenience store?

The call ended with one person discussing the lack of hope in her country and left the others with little to say, not really knowing how to respond. But the person in question seemed to have hope!

That's the best I can recall from memory....forgot to take notes! See everybody next week!

Gassho,
Dosho