Treeleaf Coffee House - Updates and Secretary Notes

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  • Sekishi
    Treeleaf Priest
    • Apr 2013
    • 5671

    #91
    Hello everyone,

    The Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for June 18th, 2017:

    - Hiding cat, crouching tiger
    - The week
    - Robe verse
    - Verse of atonement and the four vows
    - Meal verse
    - Zazen
    - Insight Timer idea - Treeleaf ceremonies followed by 15, 20, and 30 minute sittings
    - Teaching of an "imperfect" bell
    - Dharma "Mancave"
    - Simile of the (Australian) shepherd leading the (German) shepherd
    - Short delay = brain failure
    - No, really! Brain. Failure.: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spee...597426372?mt=8
    - Undertaking the precepts with burning yarn (on the skin!)
    - Buddhist reading? Just garbage!
    - Every patient-doctor interaction should be a teaching.
    - On hating reading.
    - Tricycle, Lionsroar, and other Buddhist magazines
    - The map is not the territory.
    - Idea: perma-Hangouts?
    - 360 degree cameras
    - A kechimyaku goes into a Michaels...
    - On the value of aspirational practice
    - On form and emptiness (and the balance between them)
    - Meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. Meet a ghost, kill the ghost.
    - On cube shaped marshmallows
    - SNAKISMS - Various philosophical -isms explained with a classic video game: https://www.pippinbarr.com/2017/01/25/snakisms/
    - Memory, it is the second thing to go.
    - Watch out for the Goldwater Rule yo!
    - "Traits" vs. "disorders"
    - The Price Equation - a mathematical basis for altruism (with a sad ending): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price

    Want to get to know your fellow Sangha members in an informal setting? Join us for a brief ceremony and casual discussion on practice and life via Google Hangouts every Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm EST. A link to the Hangout is posted sometime the day before in the Coffeehouse thread: http://www.annmariegarden.org/annmar...f-Coffee-House

    Gassho,
    Sekishi #sat #lah
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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