Oct. 6-7th, 2023 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Remember Bodhidharma Day!

[Ryokudo]

Thanks for a lovely session this week (I caught up yesterday) . I was driving with the dogs today and what was in the middle of the road but a shoe. Pretty much the first time I had seen one....weird.

Gassho,

Ryokudo

SAT/LAH

[Jundo]

Thanks for a lovely session this week (I caught up yesterday) . I was driving with the dogs today and what was in the middle of the road but a shoe. Pretty much the first time I had seen one....weird.

Gassho,

Ryokudo

SAT/LAH

I told you.

Gassho, J

stlah

[Kotei]

Thank you everyone!

Thinking about Bodhidharma and the one shoe left behind I can't help thinking about the old Jewish custom of confirming a verbal contract by taking off a shoe and giving it to the other person.
A symbolic confirmation that what has been said will be done.
Likely not connected, but still.....

Well, possibly more likely that those single shoes all around are remnants of the old custom of shoe-ing someone, to insult and show protest.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Houzan]

. Thank you for the first chuckle of the day, Michael!

Gassho,
b.

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Don’t think I’m joking! It was a pair of brand new pink and purple shoes, with glitter and unicorns on. It was a terrible disaster!![emoji28] Luckily I managed to find both, by the road, one by one.

Gassho, Michael
Sat

[Jundo]

Thank you everyone!

Thinking about Bodhidharma and the one shoe left behind I can't help thinking about the old Jewish custom of confirming a verbal contract by taking off a shoe and giving it to the other person.
A symbolic confirmation that what has been said will be done.
Likely not connected, but still.....

Well, possibly more likely that those single shoes all around are remnants of the old custom of shoe-ing someone, to insult and show protest.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

Really? Fortunately, that custom died out I think. What happened? Did everybody hop home from the market if the other guy's shoe did not fit?

Here is confirmation, and some of this shoe business seems quite complicated:

“Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel. Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe” (Ruth 4:7–8).

Levirate marriage is the name given to the ancient law requiring the surviving brother of a deceased man to unite in an intimate relationship with the childless widow of his brother. ... Thus, near the end of the Deuteronomic passage dealing with this law comes an explanation of what a woman should do if her surviving brother-in-law (or levir) refuses to marry her. We read: “Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house. And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed” (Deuteronomy 25:9–10).

https://rsc.byu.edu/our-rites-worshi...ovenant-people

Better than the Roman custom of making a "Testament" or "Testifying" by grabbing the other guy's Testament and giving a tight squeeze.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/games-primates-play/201112/testify-comes-the-latin-word-testicle

Gassho, J

stlah

[Houzan]

Sat the rest of this one just now. Thank you, TL[emoji120]

Gassho, Michael
Satlah

[Kyonin]

Hi Jundo,

I had to sit this one offline because I had to take care of my dad.

Master Bodhidharma is one of my main inspirations for my practice and teachings. We had a small ceremony for him too on Sunday morning Zazenkai.

Gassho,

Kyonin
sat/lah

[Nenka]

I caught up with this one yesterday . . . and saw a shoe lying in the middle of the sidewalk outside my work today

Gassho

Nenka
ST
Lah