October 4th-5th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Ishin]

Thank you everyone.
Thank you Sekishi and Jakuden.

Just like bee colonies, where does the Sangha exist?

Gassho
Ishin
Sat/lah

[Shokai]

Thank you Sekishi and Jakuden for an awesome Zazenkai. And Thanks for the bee teaching.
Have a great week

gassho, shokai
stla

[Science Abbot]

Take care of our bee friends and they will take care of us.

"Bees Declared To Be The Most Important Living Being On Earth" https://www.sciencetimes.com/article...g-on-earth.htm What a vivid reminder of the interconnectedness of all things.

Great thoughts in the Dharma talk. Thank you for the Zazenkai today.

Gassho,
Mui
Sat/LAH

[Jakuden]

was there for the "Birds and Bees talk"

Thank you Sekishi and everyone, so good to sit with you all tonight. Buzz Buzz!

Gassho,
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH

[Washin]

Thank you Sekishi, Jakuden and everyone. Great talk.

Sitting with dear Sangha at 4am feels like a right start of the weekend
Bee well

Gassho,
Washin
ST

[Shonin Risa Bear]

Metta for your spine, Anna; take best care of yourself. _()_

Thank you, Sekishi and Jakuden and bees and everyone. _()_

gassho
doyu sat/lah today.

[Sekishi]

Just like bee colonies, where does the Sangha exist?

Right where you are!!

Thank you all for coming together to practice. Always a wonderful way to close the week.

Deep bows,
Sekishi
#sat #lah

[Kevin M]

I sat with you all Saturday morning in Mexico City.
Thank you Sekishi, Jakuden, and all.

Gassho
Kevin
Sat

[Tairin]

Thank you Sekishi and Jakuden. Thank you Sangha. I sat with all of you this morning.

Safe travels Jundo and Kyonin.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Shoki]

Thanks to Sekishi , Jakuden and the bees. Thanks also to the stink bugs that are swarming to get inside my house again this time of year.

Gassho
STlah
James

[Kotei]

Thank you everyone.

My bees are using the last warm days, collecting the last pollen (ivy) for this year, preparing for winter.
Hopefully a winter with some longer cold periods and not one, filled with rain and warmth like the last ones.
They don't overwinter so well when starting/stopping with brooding too often.
Thank you bees.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[sjlabat]

Thanks,
Sekishi, Jakuden, nicely done talk and liturgy today. Sorry to see Jundo away, but for good cause, but also good to see that the 'hive' goes on regardless.
gassho
sean
sat.lah

[Onkai]

Thank you, Sekishi, Jakuden, and everyone. It was a wonderful talk and zazenkai. Have a great weekend!

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat

[Nenka]

Oh man. The only things that get into our hummingbird feeder are the two raccoons living under our deck. Sometimes we forget to take down their "soda" at night and find the empty, unscrewed feeder on the ground in the morning.

Gassho

Nenka

ST

[Kyōsen]

Thank you for everyone for sitting with everyone. Thank you for the wonderful talk, Sekishi!

When you said the core of our practice is the question: "what is this?" I gasped aloud because the question "what is this?" snapped me out of a particularly bad spell of anxiety a couple months ago and allowed me to relax completely in such a way that when I ask the question "what is this?" I immediately loosen my white-knuckle grip on my self-grasping thoughts.

When you talked about how "on some level, everything is sentient" I was reminded of how modern physics is seriously looking into this idea and some (but not all) physicists believe this idea has merit. It's perhaps one of my favorite things learned from the world of science in the last few years.

And your talk of the beehive and how if you take away one part of it, the colony disappears, reminded me of one of my favorite quotes by Thich Nhat Hahn: "Enlightenment is when the wave knows it's the ocean."

Gassho,
Sen
SatToday|LAH