Oct. 7th-8th, 2022 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Menzan in the Mirror

[Kokuu]

Thank you all! Lovely talk, Jundo.

The backwards hokey poke was ghastly...

Gassho
Kokuu

[Seishin]

Sat on demand throughout the week. Very inspiring talk.
Thank you everyone.

Sat

[Guest]

Finished sitting with this on demand yesterday. Yesterday was my birthday and I celebrated it by sitting with Shokai in the morning, Bion in the afternoon. Sitting with this zazenkai on demand in the afternoon and then sitting this week's zazenkai in the evening. So, essentially for my birthday this year I gave myself a present by being in the present.

This reminder of the powerful message in Jijuyu Zanmai was wonderful. It had been some time since I had read this. I went back and read over the text again. There is a digital copy of this within a free publication from the sotoshu found here https://www.sotozen.com/eng/library/...art_of_Zen.pdf

I went back to the original publication that I had. IMG_4868 copy.jpg. On my birthday I had been thinking of my mother a lot and this reminded me that I got this book when on a visit to San Francisco with my mother who past away last summer. She wanted to take me to the Soto temple in SF. When I went there and told them I was currently studying with Dai-En Bennage, they gave me this book along with a couple of others. All very meaningful. Thank you for bringing me back to this important teaching and this wonderful memory.

Sorry so long.

Gassho,

Bill (Daiman)

Sat Today.

[Jundo]

Finished sitting with this on demand yesterday. Yesterday was my birthday and I celebrated it by sitting with Shokai in the morning ...

Happy (Non)-Birthday, Daiman. Fortunately, we Zen folks do not quite believe in passing time.

Plus, every moment within a moment is a new birthday for all of us, and every blade of grass is our birthday too.

NON-

Gassho, J

stlah

[Guest]

Thanks Jundo.
Gassho
Daiman
Sat and sewed today.


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