DONUT ZEN

[Hoyu]

Re: DONUT ZEN

Jundo wrote:
You know, this "Treeleaf thing" was started in part because I was sitting in hospital rooms with my own sick mother for months and months, flying back and forth between Japan and Florida every few weeks. It is for that reason that I became familiar with all the internet resources that make this place. It is dedicated to my mother too.

It's great to know this!
Thank you Jundo Sensei for sharing this little bit of history on what planted the seed which would grow into the tree which we now call Treeleaf _/_
I'm sure I will think of your mom from time to time when I visit here!

Gassho,
John

[Kaishin]

Re: DONUT ZEN

I would like to underline again that, in a Buddhist meaning anyway ... there is a difference between 'suffering' (Dukkha) and sadness, pain, loss and the like.

Sadness, happiness, sickness and health, times of well being and physical pain, birth and death, gain and loss ... these are what happen in life. These, however, are not "Dukkha".

Suffering is what is added to all that when we cling, run from/toward or push away all that in life.

It may be helpful to you to try to see that one is not the other.

Gassho, Jundo

Thanks for that, Jundo. A helpful distinction.

-Matt

[Dosho]

Re: DONUT ZEN

Hi Greg,

I'm just catching up on my forum reading after a hectic few weeks and wanted to pass on my best wishes for you and your mom. You shall both be in my metta and my thoughts. It is definitely a difficult time and I hope you find time for yourself in the midst of so much sorrow. But, as some relatively young fool says around here, "It's all good practice."

Deep bows to you and your practice.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Rev R]

Re: DONUT ZEN

Salivations Greg,

My life is a mess.

If I may ask, how is your life a mess?

-Rod

[ghop]

Re: DONUT ZEN

I'm just catching up on my forum reading after a hectic few weeks and wanted to pass on my best wishes for you and your mom. You shall both be in my metta and my thoughts. It is definitely a difficult time and I hope you find time for yourself in the midst of so much sorrow. But, as some relatively young fool says around here, "It's all good practice."

Thanks Dosho!

If I may ask, how is your life a mess?

Oh, it's nothing unusual. I just want things to be different than the way they are. I'm more sensitive to that part of me that constantly pulls/away from reality now that I sit zazen. My life is a mess, but it is a good mess. I am just at that point in life where I am watching my parents slowly come undone. It's supposed to happen that way. They have had good lives. But everything changes. I am getting crows feet around my eyes, grey hairs in my goatee. I have digestive trouble and often find myself anxious for no reason. My wife and I are going on our third year now trying for a baby. On and on and on. Bitching bitching bitching. See? It's a human mess. Just the usual stufffff. Maybe I should call it "Mess" with a capital M because it is a holy mess, if you will parden my religious talk. :wink: Peace brother.

gassho
Greg