January 5th-6th, 2018 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! (Welcoming the New Year & Jukai)

[Kyonin]

Thank you all. Have a lovely weekend

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Meishin]

Thank you

Gassho
Meishin
Sat Today LAH

[Eishuu]

Thanks everyone.

Gassho
Lucy
ST/LAH

[Sekishi]

Jundo's talk is up as a podcast episode now.

https://treeleaf.podbean.com/e/january-2018-zazenkai-talk-dogen%E2%80%99s-hokyoki-part-iii/

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat

[Byokan]

Ab-fab. Thank you dear Sangha!

Gassho
Byōkan
sat + lah

[Seishin]

Thank you to everyone. Inspiring talk ahead of Jukai

SZIZTM

[Kokuu]

Thank you all, especially those who sat in the cold of Tzukuba!

Gassho
Kokuu

[Tairin]

Thank you.


Warren
Sat today

[Kotei]

Thank you all!

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Souchi]

Thanks!

Gassho,
Stefan

SatToday

[Jakuden]

Finally finished catching up with this. Thank you everyone!
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH


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[Tai Shi]

Dear friends, and yes you are dear to me!
I almost left, allowing my pain to come between a Usri and me. My temper is directly proportional to my pain. AND our dear Kousui, who I call brother for we have much in common, has noted that when my temper has stricken someone is has everything to do with my worst behavior which has everything to do with my bodily pain, and this is ferocious like the breath of a lion. Now is it really the breath of the lion, or his fangs, or his tongue, or his belly that determines how dangerous he is. I would agree with Kousui, it is my pain, so in this way I am like all the desire of the lion to be free of hunger! When I ventured to Jukai January 10, 2016, I did not know what the Precepts meant. And, still it is only now that I am making some connections. so not to as forgiveness, but to explain that my life is pain, and sometimes this pain is worse than at other times. My dear brothers and sisters at Treeleaf Zendo, not to ask for complicity, but to allow that sometimes as Kousui has told me "Tai Shi, what was your pain level when you got angry?" Because my dear brother, Kousui, has training I trust, he han ask me, "Tai Shi, what was your pain level when you became angry, ande you might note I use my friends Dharma name hedre because this is after Jukai, and I have looked on to my own Rakusu which I did not sew, it was entirely a gift, coming three weeks before our Jukai, and my robe is only on loan to me from Treeleaf, and I can say this, if I am parted in any way from my friends at Treeleaf, the Rakuse, robe, must return to Treeleaf, my hands do not allow the sewing, and even now I type with one finger. My Rakusu, oh what a gift! When I opened the packaged, Oh Racasu, my dear wife sewed my Rakusu cover from scraps in her sewing box, so I just suppose as I have taken on the Precepts, you all next week, will take on your Robe, your learning of the Precepts which will only now come forth, Thank you Shingen. Thank you Kousui. Thank you Jundo. Thank you ALL good luck as you go forth to the Precepts.

Tai Shi
sat today/lah
Gassho