Sept 6th-7th, 2019 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - COMMENCING JUKAI & ANGO!

[Tai Do]

Thank you, Jundo and Kyonin and everyone for this great beginning of Ango zazenkai.
Thank you, Dani, for the lovely Tsukuba Dance.
Let’s go Ango.
Gassho,
Mateus
Sat today/LAH

[Seibu]

Thank you all . Sat with you all today

Gassho,
Jack
Sattoday/lah

[Tokan]

I'm grateful to have been able to sit this zazenkai with you all



Tokan, sattdy

[Daitetsu]

Finally sat this zazenkai with the recording.

Thanks all for your practice!

Gassho,

Daitetsu

#sat2day

[Heiso]

Finally finished this zazenkai. Thank you all for your teaching, comments and dancing.

My daughter was giving me some fairly strange looks as I danced for her.

Gassho,

Neil

StLah.

[Meitou]

Finished this lovely zazenkai today, just in time for tonight's
Kyonin, I cannot wait to see you do the Ango Mambo , bring it on
Gassho
Meitou
Satwithyoualltoday

[Seishin]

Completed a few days back but didn't post. Thanks to all and happy Ango.

Sat

[Tai Shi]

Today I visited an American gym, and I worked out moderately- difficult for me. I experienced my usual pain, and this bed fellow only leaves me when I lie down to sleep, then I kick him out and go right to sleep. I say that I have no time for Facebook, and note, worldwide "Facebook" has become a proper noun and largely because it has captured nearly all the world. Not me. I have learned to ignore its thoughts; are ever present in apps, passwords, popups, and demanding advertising throughout this world. Billions of key strokes are pounded out each hour for this lavish dangling ideology which threatens to swallow us up, and more to be learned by leaving it alone. Even as I leave it alone, I'm forced to buy produce, software, oatmeal, bran, beer, bubbles, and baby toys, all stamped throughout and within with the stamp of F, F, Facebook, F, F, so today, not tomorrow, not yesterday, but today I will not visit Facebook's addiction, this addiction which threatens our Zendo, our Sangha, our world, our lives. Today will be tomorrow, will always be today, and as with any good addiction, "One Day At A Time." And as I go along, leaving Facebook becomes easier, easier, and easier...
Tai Shi
sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

Someday I'd like to visit Japan, and truly sit with Jundo. I had the privilege of sitting Zazenkai with three wonderful people was it two or three years ago when Jundo and son came to USA? I had my rakusu already so it must have been two years ago, Jundo. Kyousui, and Matt, and this an experience I will remember until I die. To tell the truth, though I'm in Ango, I have only read a portion of The Mind of Clove, and still waiting to read more of A Brief History of Buddhism. Though it's Buddhism, still have yet to look into The Iron Flute, a birthday gift from my daughter. I would like to go to Japan and travel. However, some things are better wished for. I sat for almost 5 minutes today, then for an additional 15 minutes. In my mind, I think that if I look at a clock, my sitting time is over. Is that right? At some point in my exercise training, I'd like to try Zazenkai, my knees are so much better than 20 months ago when I could barely make it through the Sunday Sit, now I'm working on upper body. When I feel secure with upper body muscles, I will approach Jundo see what he thinks about sitting Zazenkai. I feel like walking meditation is just fine. Zazenkai is important; usually I skip through the recording doing what I am able. If you read above, that's enough out of me for a while.
Tai Shi
sat/lah
Gassho

[Shonin Risa Bear]

There are good teachings here, Tai Shi. Thank you. Three bows.

Gassho
Doyu sat today. LAH

[Washin]

Thank you for your practice, Tai Shi.

Gassho
Washin
sattoday

[Tai Shi]

At some point I told the story of my daughters trip to Japan which lasted 4 yrs. She had experienced depression the first year at a private school in Chiba; then she moved to Date, Hokkaido, and her depression lifted. She had arrived just after the Great Earthquake/Tsunami and as she taught the depression lifted. She interacted as dad began to move toward his vows for the precepts. She explained on Skype how to pronounce Shikantaza as dad began his chair sitting. Three times I participated in Zazenkai, and I picked out material unsuited for sewing. Mom helped dad understand there was no way. Then a package arrived at Tai Shi's house with a beautiful Rakusu, and Jukai, with all its study and commitment came in Jan. 2016, not that long ago for me. I am truly young in my practice of just sitting and remain indebted to Jundo and all, my daughter too, for my commitment to Treeleaf Zendo, my Sangha. By the way, I hav't drank alcohol for 32 yrs, and only now are the precepts and so much more making sense.
Tai Shi
sat/lah
Gassho