Treeleaf Coffee House - Updates and Secretary Notes

[Sekishi]

Thank you for taking notes Marc.

Deep bows,
Sekishi
#sattoday


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[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

I am way behind in posting secretary reports (what can I say, I am good at taking them, bad at typing them up apparently). :-/

So here is a backlog of reports from September 11 through today (November 13)

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for September 11th, 2016:

- Painting
- Deadlines for artists
- Ango partners
- Keep it simple cedars
- Having partners and spouses who help with practice
- Life creates obstacles...
- Seeking to attain
- Mind Theater
- "The World is Made of Stories": http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/world-made-stories
- Lisa Simpson narrates my life!
- Boogers on shoes...
- Tinnitus and resonant heads
- Hearing everything => hearing nothing
- Slow connections, fast connections
- Board Certifications and Fellows
- Psychiatry and feeling too much
- Trait / disease / disorder
- The diagnosis of politicians
- Getting started with Ango
- The life expectancy of married men vs. married women
- Nitrates in European wine
- Matchmakers
- "Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung": http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/who-o...truckload-dung
- Ajahn Sumedho's "The Four Noble Truths": http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/4nobltru.pdf
- Buddha Basics - the water in which we swim
- Putting your (Zen) pants on, one leg at a time


Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for September 25th, 2016:

- Windows 10 updates
- PPEs
- Baby book email account
- Kid Logic
- "One in a row?"
- "I amn't going to do that."
- "When do we get small?"
- Facetime at the oil rig
- Foreign object in the ear? Make sure to check the nose too...
- Soda / Pop
- Ango at the drive-in movie
- Seiza
- Buckwheat vs. kapok
- Sitting room?
- Deduction PRO!
- Fat and healthy
- Heart rate and Zazen
- "Breathe" app
- Intermittent fasting
- Reddit: an intoxicant
- "One of US!"
- Cats and power supplies
- The Cone of Shame
- Gandalf the Grey (Cat)
- Kosher Zen
- Chromebook vs. notebook
- Ginko leaf pattern


Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for October 2nd, 2016:

- Opiates
- Facebook messenger
- Camera
- Chromebook
- University Training
- Reading Dharma books
- Saying "Yes" to all
- Leaving the candle burning
- Burning down the house
- Hypomanic episode
- 211
- Planting trees
- NAMI Hall of Fame
- Reaching for the missing dog
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Hospice
- Shel Silverstein (and "avoidance by incompetence")


Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for October 9nd, 2016:

- Raj at midnight
- Dharma of the Hokey Pokey
- Vicodin + meditation: a powerful combination?
- Trains of thought: clickity-clack
- Loosing our tempers
- ANGER!
- Who are the heroes of Treeleaf?
- Unitarians online (Facebook)
- Sewing retreat
- The spouses of Treeleaf
- The Friends of C.E.T.
- Working in fast food
- Everything we encounter is our lives...
- Ugh, new software
- Muho and "the German approach" to Antiji
- Samu
- TODO lists
- The frequency of a cat purr
- "I made a lot of things mine!"
- Can't Cook, Won't Cook (in SPAAAAAACE!)
- Sacrificing watermelons...
- Friendships as youngsters
- "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" -- Stand By Me

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for October 23nd, 2016:

(Marc took notes on Oct. 23 too -- see above for a second opinion :-)

- A case for pop-tarts
- Dogs and people
- "Poop! There is IS!"
- Cat food has more fat, dog food more protein
- Valve replacements
- "STS" score
- Arnold's voice after valve replacement in Batman
- Aragorn kicks a helm
- Star Trek: First Contact
- tvtropes.org? I hope you have four hours to kill...
- A beard reveals more than it hides...
- Alms rounds
- Vaccines
- Ring tones
- Max headroom!
- CPR for infants
- Cat intubation
- Kusala Bhikshu


Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for October 30th, 2016:

- Giving away computers
- Opiates
- Rakusu bag
- Esophageal ultrasound
- The Lord's Prayer
- Linda Lovelace
- Unitarians online (Facebook)
- Servers
- "Triumph of the Nerds"
- CP/M and MS-BASIC


Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for November 6th, 2016:

- Don't ruminate, MEDITATE!
- Sit where you are
- Baby gate on the cat room
- Oh bandwidth...
- Compassionate argument
- UK Treeleafers
- "Old Path, White Clouds": http://www.parallax.org/product/old-...of-the-buddha/
- "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching": https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Buddhas.../dp/0767903692


Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for November 13th, 2016:

- Computer updates
- Van Gogh
- Checking out artworks from the library
- Going to the park? Leave your camera home...
- Politics, the US election, and Dukkha
- As It Should vs. As I Would Like
- Cats everywhere: "Doors, how do they work?"
- Politics, the US election, and Dukkha
- And another thing about cats...
- Too busy caring to notice "defects"
- Buddhas EVERYWHERE
- How to grow a Bodhi tree (by accident)
- A coalition for inclusiveness
- I want my children not to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but to climb from my shoulders
- Migraine aura
- Death stories
- Greed vs. selfishness
- I have the GREATEST humility!
- Women in Zen
- Comcast
- Nest
- 1006 feet square
- The oboe that did its job


Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for November 20th, 2016:

- Village Zendo
- Ango
- Intoxicants
- Murder She Wrote!
- Arsenic in cow dung?
- Ka-ru-pi-su vs. calpico vs. kefir
- Kombucha
- So many friends in fermentation
- Sumatran coffee
- Kopi luwak coffee (just don't ask where it has BEAN!)
- Sweet Maria's green beans and a popcorn popper
- Melodicas and accordions
- Hayao Miyazaki's sixth "retirement" and "Kemushi no Boro"
- Adam Savage and "Tested": http://tested.com/
- Clay Jenkinson and "The Thomas Jefferson Hour": http://jeffersonhour.com/
- Ajahn Chah - on sitting vs. going to Bangkok
- US Thanksgiving plans
- "The Gallery of Regrettable Foods" and "The Aspic Cookbook: A Collection of Unfortunate Atrocities"

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for November 27th, 2016:

- Morning in New Zealand, afternoon in Virginia
- Sitting in a physical space
- "Zen and the Art of Archery": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_in_the_Art_of_Archery
- Martial arts and injury
- Pain and hospice
- Snow tire laws in Quebec
- Distant butterfly wings and the cost of firewood
- The physics of catalytic converters
- Low impact exercise ideas
- The politics of bicycle lanes
- Two wheels vs. three wheels
- Gadget Zen
- Embodied action and the mind
- iPhone 6, iphone 7
- Flipboard, Feedly, Facebook, oh my! http://feedly.com/
- Jundo and the Unitarians
- Pokemon Go and Ingress
- Pinky and the Brain
- Siri said what?
- Employee health insurance
- Jukai
- Wagesa
- Mothers and sisters

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for December 4th, 2016:

- Gabapentin & nerve pain
- Facet rhizotomy
- Health insurance
- Home schooling
- Ango and committments
- Tumblr
- E-prime and other language hacks
- Linux
- The Freethought Society
- Volunteering
- NAMI
- The logistics of food banking
- Ango donations
- Cognative dissonance
- Snow!!
- "Like snow off a dove's back"
- Flickr
- Tardive dyskinesia
- Self-rescuing princesses
- Hayao Miyazaki and the "Spirited Away 15th Anniversary"
- iphone 6, iphone 7
- The verse of atonement (confession optional)
- All ashes are my ashes
- "Foot in Mouth Disease"...
- How many amps?
- Jukai
- Wagesa

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for December 18th, 2016:

- Silence.

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Mp]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for December 18th, 2016:

- Silence.

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

Sometimes this is the best teaching. =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for January 1st, 2017:

- Joya-no-Kane (we did our own version today with whatever bells / noisemakers were available)
- Binge watching and vacation
- Untold History vs. The Crown
- Top Gear
- Confirmation bias
- Spider silk in hell (and pretas)
- The ant force multiplier
- Ants and relativistic velocity
- Music genres
- A Trap Christmas
- Rural living and practice
- Local sitting groups
- Home automation
- Raspberry Pi
- High fidelity
- Cryptocurrency

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday


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[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for January 8th, 2017:

- Robe verse followed by the verse of atonement and the four vows
- Silence for 30 minutes.

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for January 15st, 2017:

- Robe verse followed by the verse of atonement and the four vows
- Bells from the "dollar store"
- Tokugawa and Meiji era history
- Admiral Perry
- Taxes and expats
- Golden Monkey Oolong
- "Snapshots of Their Lives"
- Hangouts changing?
- API, a pi, a pie!
- The Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra
- Twelve steps (and different forms)
- Atonement and finding gratitude - two sides of a coin
- Age and practice
- Linux and Gimp
- Making water better...
- Bigotry comes in many forms
- Politics is good practice
- "Nan's Never-Fail Mayonnaise"

Gassho,
Sekishi #sattoday

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for January 22nd, 2017:

- Robe verse followed by the verse of atonement and the four vows
- The legend of Bodhidharma
- Gabapentin
- Cats
- Looking directly in vs. looking away
- NAMI Connection
- CRM is what?
- On being a whole person
- The ipad and the crushed cup
- The fist of equanimity
- Hotel, hospital, dinner
- Make pain the practice
- Dysentery Dharma
- Alarm! A baby is born.
- A ten minute standup routine on childbirth
- Paging Dr. Scooter (250cc)
- Raspberry Pi
- ER Scheduling
- "Patient abandonment"
- Golden Shield?
- GeoGuessr: https://www.geoguessr.com/
- Clock speed vs. core count
- Pay to Play
- The Dark Knight
- Project Gutenberg

Gassho,
Sekishi #sattoday

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for January 29nd, 2017:

- Robe verse followed by the verse of atonement and the four vows
- Exercising through pain
- "Computer glasses" != Google Glass
- The Heart Sutra translated by Red Pine: https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Sutra-R.../dp/1593760825
- Does Walmart own Firefox? (no, they do not)
- Rakusu bags
- Rakusu colors
- Distracted driving in Texas (vs. Virginia vs. Maryland)
- On being visibly liberal
- Calendars on the wall, calendars on computers
- "Wait until you can actually do something."
- "When you are going through hell, keep going" like firewalking...
- But what about Ojizo?
- How to sell a house (hint: hardwood floors)
- Smoking in cars, smoking in living rooms, smoking in lungs
- Three nice pickups in the driveway? Texas and Geoguessr
- "The Shipwreck" is a volcanic plug
- Wall Drug - Free Ice water! http://www.walldrug.com/
- Dorris Day and Rock Hudson - Pillow Talk / Lover Come Back / Send Me No Flowers
- "This will pass."
- Hypostomus plecostomus, cichlidae, and corydoradinae
- X-ray specs? Meh. Sea-monkeys? Ok. Pen telescope? Not bad. Tippy the Turtle? DONE!
- Chrome and anti-virus
- The "Internet of Things" and botnets
- Zen and the Art of Volkswagen maintenance
- Where? "At the gettin' place."
- After a nap...
- Willie Sutton knows why.
- Dreaming of sludgy double-jumps (or - how to fly by falling and missing the Earth)

Gassho,
Sekishi #sattoday

[Mp]

Hey there folks,

Here are the notes from our Treeleaf Coffee House meeting on Feb 5th, 2017

Life and family - the challenges we can face with both
Our practice and making time
Practice is both sitting and engaging with the world
Superbowl
Surgery and recovery
Spock and the Buddha's hand mudras
Our jobs - what we do for a living
Other religions being open and accepting of other religions
The Six Realms of Samara - literal or figurative?
Mental health awareness
Not being defined by labels

Thank you for coming together, sharing, caring, and growing. =)

Here is Buddha and Spock ...

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Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Sekishi]

Thank you Shingen.

Deep bows,
Sekishi #sattoday


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[Jakuden]

Love it! I have no doubt that Mr. Spock planted some pre-Zen seeds in my brain. Peace and long life [emoji868]
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday


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