The Obligation to Sit

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  • Kantai

    #16
    Thank you Myozan!
    I feel obliged to sit without obligation from now on. 😊

    Gassho
    Kantai/Edward

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    • Dokan
      Friend of Treeleaf
      • Dec 2010
      • 1222

      #17
      Thank you for the gentle reminder.

      Gassho,

      Dokan

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      We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
      ~Anaïs Nin

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      • Hans
        Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 1853

        #18
        Hello Myozan,

        now I feel obliged to thank you for this talk before I go to bed in a few minutes.



        Gassho,

        Hans Chudo Mongen

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        • Geika
          Treeleaf Unsui
          • Jan 2010
          • 4984

          #19
          Thank you, Myozan, gassho.
          求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
          I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.

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          • Gary
            Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 251

            #20
            Myozan,
            just what I needed to hear today.
            with gratitude
            Gary
            Drinking tea and eating rice.

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            • Joryu
              Member
              • Jan 2014
              • 106

              #21
              Thank You, I needed to hear this today.

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              • Ishin
                Member
                • Jul 2013
                • 1359

                #22
                Thank you Myozan. Of course when we can let go of that "obligation" in other things also, then we aren't spending time in a check list but we can BE with the kids, with our work, with our dinner.

                Gassho
                C
                Grateful for your practice

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                • Myozan Kodo
                  Friend of Treeleaf
                  • May 2010
                  • 1901

                  #23
                  Clark,
                  You got it. Thank you.
                  Gassho
                  Myozan

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                  • Yugen

                    #24
                    Myozan,
                    Thank you

                    Deep bows
                    Yugen

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                    • JasonG
                      Member
                      • Mar 2013
                      • 33

                      #25
                      Thank you Myozan. This was also just what I needed to hear today. I can have obsessive-compulsive tendencies towards the maintenance of certain habits as a means of trying to control my environment - and sometimes zazen can also feed this addictive type behaviour. So it was good to be reminded of this "unhealthy for me" obligation to sit - and then just to sit zazen!

                      Gassho,
                      Jason


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                      • Eishuu

                        #26
                        Beautiful talk. Thank you.

                        Gassho
                        Lucy

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