Day 5 - Treeleaf 10th Anniversary Zazenathon

[Tai Shi]

I shall sit today in Shikabtaza at 5:30 pm to 6 central daylight as I was to sit yesterday continuing from my sitting at 4:40, and thus will I complete my obligation.

Tai Shi
sat today
Gassho All

Shall sit in the morning

[Graceleejenkins]

I shall sit today in Shikabtaza at 5:30 pm to 6 central daylight as I was to sit yesterday continuing from my sitting at 4:40, and thus will I complete my obligation.

Tai Shi
sat today
Gassho All

Shall sit in the morning

Elgwyn, I will try to sit with you once again at that time! Gassho, Grace.

Sat today

[Graceleejenkins]

Day 5 is complete--full of learning, sharing, and celebration! The Half-way Mark!

Gassho!

Day 5 is complete.

Our delicious half-baked Birthday Pie is now officially half-baked!

We all sat today

[Jundo]

As we end Day 5, I would like to provide some re-assurance to some folks who feel they got the "schedule wrong" and such, and perhaps were a little late or early. Ya know, as long as one is sitting, Zen folks are very flexible about time. First off, we don't quite believe in time ... since all time is NOW. What past or future. A little late, a little early ... all NOW NOW NOW.

What is more, we had a Founder who wrote wild things like this about time (From Dogen's Uji) ...

The golden body of one jo six shaku is time. Because it is time, there are the ornaments and lights of time. So we must study the 12 hours confronting us. It is time that draws out the body with three heads and eight arms. Because it is time, it interpenetrates with the present 12 hours. Though we have not yet measured the span of 12 hours, we call it 12 hours. ... The horse (12 o'clock) and sheep (one o'clock), lined up in order in the present world, are indicated by the fixation of time rising and falling. The mouse (6 o'clock) is time; the tiger (8 o'clock) is time. All beings are time; Buddhas are time. Then gods in the heavens enlighten the world with their three heads and eight arms; Buddhas enlighten the world with their one-jo and six-shaku golden body. To transcend the active and passive is called penetrating the world. Becoming the true Buddha is manifested in search, in training, in enlightenment, in Nirvana. This is existence-and time. There is only the thorough studying of all time as all existence; there is nothing else. http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachin...chings/Uji.htm

Try planning your day by that!

So, if you tried to sit and were a little late or early ... it is all three heads and eight arms. Understand?

On a more serious note, I would like to dedicate all our sitting to Fugu, our old member, who is now in hospice and still teaching us.

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?14341-Goodbye

Taigu also sent along greetings for our anniversary and a little update.

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?14342-Message-from-Taigu-for-Treeleaf-s-10th

Gassho, J

SatToday

[Jakuden]

Thank you Jundo. I am sitting with Fugu also, as no words are adequate in this case to put to it, just sitting in a timeless-being-grieving-loving way if I can. I do hope that she is aware of how our Sangha surrounds her and how she will not cease to be a part of it.

Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday

[Tai Shi]

Hour of minutes in the early morning, this my second offering to ten years, so we have grown--house of Zen, beautiful Sangha thank you, we sit in silence, morning in night as emptiness becomes emptiness--reaching into formless night become formlessness, become morning--green as night--from 2 am to 3 am, we give over to others.

Tai Shi
sat this morning
Gassho
Gassho