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  • Longdog
    Member
    • Nov 2007
    • 448

    Another introduction...

    Hi, I'm Kev, just found about this forum a few days ago and joined to day.

    I'm from North East England and was working as a primary school teacher until I had to leave my job due being ill with to CFS/ME for the last year.

    I've been involved and interested in all sorts of spiritualities since my teens, including funnily enough Zen, but re-discovered it about a year ago and a half ago when I discovered a local group. I was attending a soto zen group linked to Throssel Hole Abbey, founded by Rev Master Jiyu Kennet but my ill health combined with the time and distance has made this pretty impossible for a while.

    Since re-discovering Zen as an adult I've been interested following the DSI blogs and enjoyed and got a lot from Brad Warners two books. I've being trying to sit 3x20mins a day for the last few weeks (can't manage half/full lotus) using my sieza bench which I find very stable, but I may have to restort to chair or lying as I've been having alot of pain in my legs/back/shoulders since increasing the number of sittings.

    I do find that zazen helps with my headaches and general fatigue (other than my aches) as well as enjoing zazen for zazens sake.

    I do hope, Jundo, that you get chance to do some Dharma talks as MP3s as I have difficulty reading much at the moment especially on the computer.

    Trying to work my way through some of the back postings to avoid annoyingly asking things which have all ready been dealt with. :lol:

    thanks for your time

    Kev
    [url:x8wstd0h]http://moder-dye.blogspot.com/[/url:x8wstd0h]
  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40827

    #2
    Hi Longdog,

    Welcome to you too. Happy to open one more space in the Zendo for another backside!

    Oh, and if you want your fill of my longwindedness ... you can get that all here (although today's topic, by coincincidence, was silence).

    http://treeleafzen.blogspot.com/

    If you go back through that, you can have many months of my ramblings and untold timeless hours of Zazen. Unfortunately, not downloadable to an Mp3 (Kirk, any idea about that? ... I believe you know something on the topic! :-) )

    Gassho, Jundo
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    • Kelly M.
      Member
      • Sep 2007
      • 225

      #3
      Welcome Kev,

      Jundo's sit-alongs will probably be enough to last you a while. And you get video along with your audio!

      I will admit though, MP3 format would be handy as we could then download the talks and listen to them anywhere... such as morning commutes for example.

      For people such as Kev and I who have not yet had a chance to catch up on all the previous sit-alongs prior to our discovery of treeleaf, this would also be a great way to take advantage of all those past timeless hours.

      Gassho,
      KElly
      Live in joy and love, even among those who hate
      Live in joy and health, even among the afflicted
      Live in joy and peace, even among the troubled
      Look within and be still; free from fear and grasping
      Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

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      • Dainin
        Member
        • Sep 2007
        • 389

        #4
        Hey Kev,

        Welcome to Treeleaf!

        Gassho,
        Keith

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        • Eika
          Member
          • Sep 2007
          • 806

          #5
          If you go back through that, you can have many months of my ramblings and untold timeless hours of Zazen. Unfortunately, not downloadable to an Mp3 (Kirk, any idea about that? ... I believe you know something on the topic! Smile )

          Gassho, Jundo
          I use a piece of freeware called Soundflower (I have a Mac) that basically pulls the audio off anything that is played through the speaker/soundcard. It works pretty well. I have used it to archive some talks for importing into my iPod.

          I'm not sure what PC folks would need.

          Bill

          PS-- Welcome Kev!
          [size=150:m8cet5u6]??[/size:m8cet5u6] We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life---John Cage

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          • Longdog
            Member
            • Nov 2007
            • 448

            #6
            Hi , and thanks for the welcome.

            I don't need MP3s for an ipod type thing so I'm happy to listen to the videos. I guess it was just that on the main site there is a heading for MPs and podcasts with nothing under it yet. Don't worry I know these things take time and are another demand.

            Kev
            [url:x8wstd0h]http://moder-dye.blogspot.com/[/url:x8wstd0h]

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            • Shohei
              Member
              • Oct 2007
              • 2854

              #7
              Hi and Welcome Kev!

              Gassho
              Dirk

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              • Jarkko
                Member
                • Oct 2007
                • 58

                #8
                Hello!
                Welcome Kev

                Gassho
                Jarkko

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                • Fuken
                  Member
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 435

                  #9
                  welcome aboard!
                  Yours in practice,
                  Jordan ("Fu Ken" translates to "Wind Sword", Dharma name givin to me by Jundo, I am so glad he did not name me Wind bag.)

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                  • Mensch
                    Member
                    • Jun 2007
                    • 77

                    #10
                    Welcome!

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                    • Rev R
                      Member
                      • Jul 2007
                      • 457

                      #11
                      wassup?

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                      • will
                        Member
                        • Jun 2007
                        • 2331

                        #12
                        Hey Kev. Welcome.

                        Gassho Will
                        [size=85:z6oilzbt]
                        To save all sentient beings, though beings are numberless.
                        To penetrate reality, though reality is boundless.
                        To transform all delusion, though delusions are immeasurable.
                        To attain the enlightened way, a way non-attainable.
                        [/size:z6oilzbt]

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                        • paige
                          Member
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 234

                          #13
                          Longdog? Sounds like there's a story there!

                          Welcome, Kev!

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                          • Komoku
                            Member
                            • Sep 2007
                            • 55

                            #14
                            Welcome Kev!
                            Gassho,

                            Komoku
                            古黙

                            Sat

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                            • Longdog
                              Member
                              • Nov 2007
                              • 448

                              #15
                              thanks for all your welcomes.

                              :lol: I started using Longdog as a username when I discovered the net and discovered that people don't generally use their own name, at least until they're sure if people are 'friendly'.

                              The story is pretty straight forward. I like greyhounds, lurchers and whippets and have two old ladies at the moment, Fern and Skye. People generally refer to these dogs as longdogs.

                              I'm not into racing/hunting by the way, my dogs are rescues.

                              Gassho, Kev
                              [url:x8wstd0h]http://moder-dye.blogspot.com/[/url:x8wstd0h]

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