ANNOUNCEMENT: Our 2012 TREELEAF “Home-Leaving ORDINATIONS

[Shogen]

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Our 2012 TREELEAF “Home-Leaving ORDINATIONS

Congratulations and appreciation for your commitment Dosho, Soen, Shinkai, and Heitetsui. Gassho Shogen

[Dojin]

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Our 2012 TREELEAF “Home-Leaving ORDINATIONS

Congratulations Dosho (Scott), Soen (Ian), Shinkai (Allison) and Heitetsu (Chris)!
I am sure you will make put your heart in to it. and nothing that is done sincerely cant be bad.

Gassho, Dojin.

[Jundo]

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Our 2012 TREELEAF “Home-Leaving ORDINATIONS

nothing that is done sincerely cant be bad.

A koan or a typo ... all the same, how true!

EMPTINESS done sincerely can't be bad! 8)

Gassho, J

[Kaishin]

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Our 2012 TREELEAF “Home-Leaving ORDINATIONS

It's wonderful and exciting to see Treeleaf sprouting new branches :wink:
gassho
Greg

A good metaphor. I was just watching Mongen's talk on marriage, it struck me that the unsui ceremonies really are striking out new paths in the Treeleaf bloodline. I don't think I quite grasped that at first. We can hope that Jundo and Taigu will be with us at least another half century , BUT at some point (to continue the metaphor) the new branches will have to take over bringing life to the tree.

As Taigu mentioned in teisho, perhaps not too long from now we will all be sitting together in a Treeleaf Holodeck (as Jundo calls it). Well, whatever may come, it is nice to know that there are new "wicks" to carry the flame forward.

OK, enough with the metaphors

Congrats to all again!