Sitting for Joshu Sasaki and the Well Being of His Sangha

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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40131

    Sitting for Joshu Sasaki and the Well Being of His Sangha

    I ask our folks to sit in remembrance of Joshu Sasaki Roshi, a most influential Teacher yet equally complex figure in the coming of Zen to the West. He left this visible world today at age 107 (age 108 in the traditional way of counting in Japan).

    Rev. James Ford posted a very frank obituary today. Sometimes a gifted Teacher can be also troubled, Teaching us in ways not intended.

    I’ve just learned that Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi died at 4:25 pm, this Sunday, the 27th of July, 2014, at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was one


    We also sit and offer Metta for the peace and well being of the community he leaves behind, including several fine Teachers who have faced a difficult circumstance these past years.


    Gassho, Jundo
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Byokan
    Treeleaf Unsui
    • Apr 2014
    • 4288

    #2


    Gassho
    Lisa
    展道 渺寛 Tendō Byōkan
    Please take my words with a big grain of salt. I know nothing. Wisdom is only found in our whole-hearted practice together.

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    • Myosha
      Member
      • Mar 2013
      • 2974

      #3
      Misery only doth exist, none miserable,
      No doer is there; naught save the deed is found.
      Nirvâna is, but not the man who seeks it.
      The Path exists, but not the traveller on it.

      Visuddhimagga (chapt. 16)

      Metta to all.


      Gassho,
      Myosha
      Last edited by Myosha; 07-28-2014, 05:37 PM.
      "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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      • Mp

        #4
        Thank you ... will dedicate my evening sit.

        Wow ... that was direct and to the point article. I hope Sasaki Roshi can now find peace from the trappings of greed and desire. Whether good or bad, teachings and teachers are all around us.

        Also I feel bad for the Sangha and Ordained Priests who are left behind in limbo ... what will come of it Jundo? Will the Rinzai community appoint someone?

        Gassho
        Shingen

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        • Kyotai

          #5


          Gassho, shawn

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          • Kyonin
            Treeleaf Priest / Engineer
            • Oct 2010
            • 6745

            #6
            Thank you, Jundo.

            Sitting for Sasaki Roshi and his sangha.

            Gassho,

            Kyonin
            Hondō Kyōnin
            奔道 協忍

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            • Byokan
              Treeleaf Unsui
              • Apr 2014
              • 4288

              #7
              Metta for his victims.
              Metta for the Sangha that is left in limbo.
              Metta for the ones who tried to call attention to his behavior.
              Metta for the ones who knew and stayed silent or shamed the ones who spoke up.
              Metta for the ones who really didn't know and stood by him and were betrayed.
              Metta for a great and learned man who did much good, but must have known in his heart how wrong his actions were.


              "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
              - Edmund Burke

              Gassho
              Lisa
              展道 渺寛 Tendō Byōkan
              Please take my words with a big grain of salt. I know nothing. Wisdom is only found in our whole-hearted practice together.

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              • Seimyo
                Member
                • Jan 2012
                • 861

                #8
                Deep bows to Sasaki Roshi for his contributions to Zen in the west.

                Gassho
                Seimyo

                明 Seimyō (Christhatischris)

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                • Saijun
                  Member
                  • Jul 2010
                  • 667

                  #9
                  May all beings be free from suffering.
                  May all beings abide in the Great Buddha Way.
                  To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. --RBB

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                  • Ishin
                    Member
                    • Jul 2013
                    • 1359

                    #10

                    C
                    Grateful for your practice

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                    • Risho
                      Member
                      • May 2010
                      • 3179

                      #11
                      Email: risho.treeleaf@gmail.com

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                      • Geika
                        Treeleaf Unsui
                        • Jan 2010
                        • 4981

                        #12
                        Metta for all. 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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