Hello everybody:
It's been about four months since I discovered this amazing sangha thanks to Kyonin. I will never thank you enough, Kyonin.
I have been a zen student for 10 years now. Nine of them in the Kwan Um School of Zen, my first tradition.
But since I left my sangha about a year and a half ago, I had been like lost, and had somehow lost the hope to find a way to be able to recover my daily practice, the joy of a sangha, of this great zazen practice.
Really feel as this practice is for me the best way of life. I took the five precepts in the KUSZ about 8 years ago and two years later I took the ten precepts and spent two years studying to be a Dharma Teacher. Actually I did not finished it, as I didn't have my confirmation ceremony. Anyway, the point is that all this hard practice time and study I still feel like a beginner. An absolute beginner. I still feel I am nobody to be able to teach anyone ore give advice about, zen, buddhism or zazen.
Of course, this my fault not a school one. That is for sure.
The thing is since Kyonin showed me that sangha, something amazing has happened. I really feel I have found my place.
Both because of the sangha and the teaching.
My daily practice and my joy for it have really come to life again. Now I feel the same wish for search and peace in practice that brought me to Zen in the first place, and my wife and two sons feel I am really well again. I feel at home with this sangha and the teaching of this tradition has been a great discovery. I never thought of the practice with this aproach.
I would like to know if there is somewhere in the forums where I can find a study program or something simillar about this tradition, teaching, precepts ... etc. I would really like to commit to the study of this tradition and teaching together with my daily practice.
Anyhow, thank you Jundo and everybody here for keeping this amazing and unique sangha alive.
Sat today.
It's been about four months since I discovered this amazing sangha thanks to Kyonin. I will never thank you enough, Kyonin.
I have been a zen student for 10 years now. Nine of them in the Kwan Um School of Zen, my first tradition.
But since I left my sangha about a year and a half ago, I had been like lost, and had somehow lost the hope to find a way to be able to recover my daily practice, the joy of a sangha, of this great zazen practice.
Really feel as this practice is for me the best way of life. I took the five precepts in the KUSZ about 8 years ago and two years later I took the ten precepts and spent two years studying to be a Dharma Teacher. Actually I did not finished it, as I didn't have my confirmation ceremony. Anyway, the point is that all this hard practice time and study I still feel like a beginner. An absolute beginner. I still feel I am nobody to be able to teach anyone ore give advice about, zen, buddhism or zazen.
Of course, this my fault not a school one. That is for sure.
The thing is since Kyonin showed me that sangha, something amazing has happened. I really feel I have found my place.
Both because of the sangha and the teaching.
My daily practice and my joy for it have really come to life again. Now I feel the same wish for search and peace in practice that brought me to Zen in the first place, and my wife and two sons feel I am really well again. I feel at home with this sangha and the teaching of this tradition has been a great discovery. I never thought of the practice with this aproach.
I would like to know if there is somewhere in the forums where I can find a study program or something simillar about this tradition, teaching, precepts ... etc. I would really like to commit to the study of this tradition and teaching together with my daily practice.
Anyhow, thank you Jundo and everybody here for keeping this amazing and unique sangha alive.
Sat today.
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