April 13th-14th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Seishin]

Sat this end to end this morning for the first time. Hectic few days ahead so took advantage of waking up early. Thank you all.

[Tairin]

Thank you for the talk Jundo. You touched on something that I’ve been thinking about recently. Why do I sit?

I definitely have reasons for taking up this practice. To be a good husband, father, son, brother, friend and resident of this plant. To be a good person. Through this practice I aim to live gently by following the precepts but also to recognize when delusions take hold of my thinking. But why sit?

I read this recently and the way it is expressed really resonated with me.

If zazen is truly useless, the first moment we do it, just as Dogen says, we have entered into a totally different realm. We are instantaneously off the grid, so to speak, of means and ends, of progress and goals. We are in a whole new world where what we are doing is not, cannot, be justified by something outside of itself, by what it’s going to get us, or where it’s going to take us. We just sit. We just are.

Source: https://tricycle.org/magazine/uselessness/


Tairin
Sat today

[Doshin]

Thank you all.

I give up. Is it or is it not a stick?

Gassho
Doshin
st

[Amelia]

Venus WAS quite prominent last night, Sekishi. I was happy to notice it. It was so bright that I thought it was an airplane! I live next to a small airport...

Gassho, sat today, lah

[martyrob]

Thanks to Kyonin, Jundo and everyone.

Martyn.

Sat zazenkai today.


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[Washin]

Thank you everyone

Gassho
Washin
sattoday

[Kokuu]

Lovely. Thank you!

Gassho
Kokuu

[Meishin]

Thank you.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat Today

[Kotei]

Thank you everyone.
Gassho,
Kotei sat(this)/lah today.