June 26th-27th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - BYOB (Bring Your Own Buddha)

[Seikan]

Thank you Jundo, Washin, Sekishi, and everyone for tonight's Zazenkai.

Just for the record, while I don't have any cats at the moment, I do love cats. Growing up, I had no less than two at a time, but my oldest son is allergic, so we have had to go feline-free for many years now. We do have an indoor rabbit though. Do bunnies count?

Gassho,
Rob

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[Sekishi]

ON EXAMINATION, ONLY THE CLOSING BELLS OF SECOND ZAZEN, AND CLOSING CHANTS, ARE REMOVED. I GUESS THAT IT WAS AN OFFENSIVE BELL!

For science, we should have the Ino ring the bell to start Zazen and see if it gets through. Maybe that beautiful old bell at Treeleaf is too close to something used in a commercial recording...

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat #riinnng

[Shonin Risa Bear]

Paula Arai has a wonderful article somewhere about her discovery, while living in a monastery with Zen nuns, that cleaning rags are the Buddha. _()_

gassho
shonin sat today/lah

[Onka]

Just finished this Zazenkai. Kinhin was walking with The Game Changer up and down our 150m driveway. My BYOB is the native grass and native weeds in this picture. They have survived the neighbour's attempts at slashing and poisoning after I had a conversation with him recently. He doesn't see the value things other than in economic or production terms. The grasses and weeds are Buddha despite being seen as having no value to humans. They do provide habitat for innumerable native species though.
Gassho Onka
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[Tairin]

Thank you everyone. I sat with you this morning.

Thank you for the teaching Jundo.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Seikan]

The grasses and weeds are Buddha despite being seen as having no value to humans.

Onka,

Keep up the good fight! Save the weeds!

I've long fought with people that spray all kinds of chemicals in their yards to kill weeds, etc. I've always argued that weeds are no different from other plants, but for some reason people have made a collective decision to demonize certain varieties with the term "weed" because they don't attribute any value to them. Dandelions are considered weeds by most people around here, yet I find them beautiful. And the wild rabbits in our yard feast on them all spring. What's not to love?

Gassho,
Rob

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[Bokugan]

Thank you Jundo, Washin, Sekishi and everyone. As always, wonderful to get to sit with you all!

I still have my empty cat food tin on my altar in place of the usual Buddha statue Will replace it in time, but wanted to think on the talk a little longer.

Gassho

Ryan S
Sat Today

[Jundo]

I still have my empty cat food tin on my altar in place of the usual Buddha statue Will replace it in time, but wanted to think on the talk a little longer.

Feed it to the cat. Cat is Buddha too.

Gassho, J

[Bokugan]

Feed it to the cat. Cat is Buddha too.

Gassho, J

They got a special treat with that in mind. We just gave them wet food, which is very much a once-in-a-while thing for them (they are super spoiled, we just have a tubby fella we need to look after).

Altar is also back to normal

Gassho,

Ryan S
Sat Today

[Jundo]

Altar is also back to normal ��

Altar is always in a state beyond normal or not normal, like all the world. That is why it is called an "Altared State."

Gassho, J

STLah

[Geika]

Sekishi, I think we should really try the first bell experiment!

But my husband is convinced we have a troll.

Gassho,
Sat today, lah

[adahee]

Jundo,
I used a Godzilla plush toy as my BYOB for this session.
It may seem whimsical to some. But it has meaning in our family.

I may leave it there for a while to reflect on this lesson a little more. I feel there's more there than I understand.
I'm pretty sure my wife thinks I've joined a Godzilla cult.

Gassho,
steve

[Seishin]

Thank you Jundo, thank you Washin, thank you everyone.

Sat

[Washin]

Thank you Jundo, Sekishi and all for another wonderful Zazenkai.
Regret I couldn't take part in an afterparty Tea time for I was in a hurry
to a tree watering event scheduled for an early morning time here.

Gassho
Washin
st-lah

[Bokucho]

Thank you everyone for all your hard work! I sat with a muddy hammer for my BYOB. It's really great to see it among my altar as such a great reminder that all things (and non-things) are Buddha.

Gassho,

Joshua
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