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All things wax and wane. Treeleaf participation frequency is subject to that same balancing act.
May you enjoy good practice with your Chan group. Of course, I see no divide between "your" group, and "my" group. All sangha.
I also went to Sleeps' page, and upon seeing that he was no longer registered, I had this wanting to know what he was up to, or what he was going through, or what had caused him to leave, whether or not he was still checking up on some of the things said here, etc. All just thoughts and so many of them, all wanting to know. I will receive no answers, and I will be content with the lack of my ability to change the way things are. All is as it is.
Metta to your friend: may he be healthy and at ease in all his ills.
"No day comes back again:
One inch of time is worth
A foot of jade." --Takuan
Thank you for your contributions and see you around.
求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.
I offer you good wishes upon your journey and hope that its twists and turns will bring you back around with ours now and then. That's how I have felt about your prescence over the years at Treeleaf, so it would be of great benefit to me and others to see your thoughtful posts in the future. So, I will not say goodbye. I will just say, "Until we meet again."
I am touched by all your very kind words and thoughts.
I have to point out that I do not get 'credit' for the posts I write. I am responsible for them, true. I did write them, true.
But posts don't happen alone: like everything else: co-arising interdependence.
Without the topics and the other posts/posters setting off a spark of thought.... without a call, calling forth a response...
so much interconnectedness goes into such simple things, such over looked because taken for granted things...
It's a rich 'thought stew', each writer/responder/participant with their own unique flavor. Mine is only one. I do try to follow some guidelines: 1) I have nothing to say and 2) I am going to go ahead and say it anyway 3) I try to keep it brief
4) I try to express for lack of better terms a harmony of contradictions
While I am not a door, I think I show periodic glimmers of possibility as a window: a quick view of a different perspective.
Isn't that how it is? Each of us sharing perspective? But not just 'dead' perspective...something useful...something tasty...something that might come in handy...something like a crowbar, or a hanky, or a $20.00 bill: limited in it's usefulness, but when encountered at the right time: a godsend!
So...thank you! to all, and I promise you have not seen the last of me, but will continue to see the less of me!
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on a side note, am wondering if things are funky with the website for Treeleaf--I tried to post my thank you message a couple of days ago I logged in but my post didn't go through and my avatar picture had been removed. When I logged back in I was told I had to register and as I re-registered (thinking someone may have mistaken my post as a 'goodby' and removed me from Treeleaf membership) I was told that that name/password already exisited.
A day later and my picture was back,
Today my picture was gone, but so were almost everyone else's on this thread!
Veddy interestink, no?
I look forward to next time....until then, take good care!
on a side note, am wondering if things are funky with the website for Treeleaf--I tried to post my thank you message a couple of days ago I logged in but my post didn't go through and my avatar picture had been removed. When I logged back in I was told I had to register and as I re-registered (thinking someone may have mistaken my post as a 'goodby' and removed me from Treeleaf membership) I was told that that name/password already exisited.
A day later and my picture was back,
Today my picture was gone, but so were almost everyone else's on this thread!
Hi Keishin,
We are engaged in a bit of a big upgrade and redesign of some things around here soon ... but no .... nothing was done to your account, pictures etc. Computers, software, Java and the internet are just like that sometimes.
some guidelines: 1) I have nothing to say and 2) I am going to go ahead and say it anyway 3) I try to keep it brief
4) I try to express for lack of better terms a harmony of contradictions
While I am not a door, I think I show periodic glimmers of possibility as a window: a quick view of a different perspective.
Wonderful aspirations for us all in our forum practice and also just a few of the many reasons your reduced participation will be missed.
AL (Jigen) in: Faith/Trust
Courage/Love
Awareness/Action!
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