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  • Joyo
    • Feb 2025

    Setting a path to healing

    When I feel sadness and sorrow, it feels as though I walk a path of healing that others have started from their own suffering. Stone by stone, they set a path down. Quotes, peaceful thoughts, ways to heal, each a precious stone that my feet walk on. In turn, I can take my own suffering and add to this path to help others.

    I look at where I turn when life throws struggles my way....a dear friend who has shared similar struggles to my own, quotes and readings by Thich Nhat Hahn and Ben Connelly, and all the wonderful teachings that Jundo has posted. All of them, using their own struggles to set stones down on this path to healing.

    "The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing." ~ Shunryu Suzuki. This music is "Feeling the River Flow" by Dean Evenson. Princip...


    Gassho,
    Joyo
    sat today
  • Myosha
    Member
    • Mar 2013
    • 2974

    #2
    Hello,

    Thank you for the link.


    Gassho
    Myosha sat today
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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    • Jundo
      Treeleaf Founder and Priest
      • Apr 2006
      • 40992

      #3
      Lovely, clear messages. Thank you, Joyo,

      Gassho, J

      SatToday
      ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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      • Mp

        #4
        Wonderful Joyo, thank you. =)

        Gassho
        Shingen

        #sattoday

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        • Kyotai

          #5
          "Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow a string when you've got a good strong rope."

          Lovely

          Gassho, Kyotai
          Sat today

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          • Kyonin
            Dharma Transmitted Priest
            • Oct 2010
            • 6748

            #6
            In silence I bow to this.

            Thank you, Joyo.

            Gassho,

            Kyonin
            Hondō Kyōnin
            奔道 協忍

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            • Troy
              Member
              • Sep 2013
              • 1318

              #7
              Setting a path to healing

              Deep bows to the Buddha. Thank you Joyo


              ..sat2day•合掌

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              • Doshin
                Member
                • May 2015
                • 2634

                #8
                Thank you for sharing Joyo. We live in a beautiful world.

                Randy

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                • Cumminjd
                  Member
                  • May 2013
                  • 183

                  #9
                  Thank you for this Joyo!

                  Gassho
                  James
                  Sattoday


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                  • Getchi
                    Member
                    • May 2015
                    • 612

                    #10
                    Thankyou Joyo, a beautiful collection! My wife and I really appreciated it.

                    Gassho,
                    Geoff.

                    SatToday.
                    Nothing to do? Why not Sit?

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                    • Tai Shi
                      Member
                      • Oct 2014
                      • 3469

                      #11
                      My body is diseased. I have arthritis of the spine, and this is throughout my body! But most of the time, I am happy. It's just when the pain hits and I feel so very bad. I wish you well.

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                      Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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                      • Kyotai

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Elgwyn
                        My body is diseased. I have arthritis of the spine, and this is throughout my body! But most of the time, I am happy. It's just when the pain hits and I feel so very bad. I wish you well.

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                        Good to hear from you Elgwyn

                        Be well and thank you for your practice

                        Gassho, Kyotai
                        Sat today

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                        • Byokan
                          Senior Priest-in-Training
                          • Apr 2014
                          • 4284

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Joyo
                          When I feel sadness and sorrow, it feels as though I walk a path of healing that others have started from their own suffering. Stone by stone, they set a path down. Quotes, peaceful thoughts, ways to heal, each a precious stone that my feet walk on. In turn, I can take my own suffering and add to this path to help others.

                          I look at where I turn when life throws struggles my way....a dear friend who has shared similar struggles to my own, quotes and readings by Thich Nhat Hahn and Ben Connelly, and all the wonderful teachings that Jundo has posted. All of them, using their own struggles to set stones down on this path to healing.
                          Hi Joyo,

                          what a wonderful expression, thank you so much for these wise words. I've had this feeling too. You really capture it with the image of the stones creating the path. It makes me think about how everything we do -- everything, our whole life -- is an offering.

                          Deep bows,
                          Lisa
                          sat today
                          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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                          • Shinzan
                            Member
                            • Nov 2013
                            • 338

                            #14
                            Thanks, Joyo. >>>All the earth is the dewdrop.
                            Salve for the soul.

                            _/\_ Shinzan
                            sattoday

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                            • Talib
                              Member
                              • Jun 2015
                              • 77

                              #15
                              beautiful
                              Gassho
                              #sat2day

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