Our Special Zazenkai & Talk with Abbot Mujo of Antaiji is Here! Please Sit-A-Long!

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  • Tai Shi
    Member
    • Oct 2014
    • 3438

    #46
    I was very happy to sign up for $5 a month and really happy to help out with a place that is becoming dear to my heart and remember I am a poet with two books to my credit. But poets are really poor, so remember that this money is what I can afford Elgwyn, MFA, sat today Gassho..
    Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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    • Tai Shi
      Member
      • Oct 2014
      • 3438

      #47
      I have such gratitude for being accepted at Treeleaf, and I have so much to learn. Elgwyn MFA creative writing Colorado State University.
      Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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      • Jishin
        Member
        • Oct 2012
        • 4821

        #48
        Originally posted by Elgwyn
        I was very happy to sign up for $5 a month and really happy to help out with a place that is becoming dear to my heart and remember I am a poet with two books to my credit. But poets are really poor, so remember that this money is what I can afford Elgwyn, MFA, sat today Gassho..
        It's very very expensive to hang out here. It costs NOTHING! And you get what you pay for. NOTHING!

        Gassho, Jishin, _/st\_

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        • Byokan
          Senior Priest-in-Training
          • Apr 2014
          • 4289

          #49
          Thank you Jundo, thank you Muho, thank you dear Sangha!

          Wonderful Q&A!

          Dana done.

          Gassho
          Lisa
          sat today
          展道 渺寛 Tendō Byōkan
          Please take my words with a big grain of salt. I know nothing. Wisdom is only found in our whole-hearted practice together.

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          • Ed
            Member
            • Nov 2012
            • 223

            #50
            Antiji has for decades held a mythical quality for me. Nothing mythical there. It is where the rubber meets the road, the reality of Zen Buddhist practice for the sake of Zen Buddhist practice. Zazen with no toys, they say Uchiyama Roshi used to call their practice. A bunch of renegade zennis gathered there just to sit. What a nutty idea, almost like the ancients. How crazy is that? Pure sanity if you look around.
            To see Muho sensei live, so relaxed in this life, on of that kind of totally dedicated Dharma practice, was wonderful for me.
            I sit with students of students of Uchiyama Roshi and feel first hand their awesome dedication to the Dharma. One, ordained by a student of Deshimaro Roshi another of Kodo Sawaki's fire-spiting dragons, lives a constant practice in gentleness and good humor, sits zazen like stone. Man, that is what I wanna be when I grow up: a gentle dharma fool.
            Deep vows to Jundo and this beloved sangha, and Muho and may Antaiji remain a strong, clear, no-nonsense becon of Dharma reality for all the world.
            "Know that the practice of zazen is the complete path of buddha-dharma and nothing can be compared to it....it is not the practice of one or two buddhas but all the buddha ancestors practice this way."
            Dogen zenji in Bendowa





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            • Myosha
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              • Mar 2013
              • 2974

              #51
              Originally posted by Ed
              Man, that is what I wanna be when I grow up: a gentle dharma fool.
              .
              Have you tried a mirror?^^


              Gassho,
              Myosha sat today
              "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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              • Ed
                Member
                • Nov 2012
                • 223

                #52
                Originally posted by Myosha
                Have you tried a mirror?^^


                Gassho,
                Myosha sat today
                "Know that the practice of zazen is the complete path of buddha-dharma and nothing can be compared to it....it is not the practice of one or two buddhas but all the buddha ancestors practice this way."
                Dogen zenji in Bendowa





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                • Daiyo
                  Member
                  • Jul 2014
                  • 819

                  #53
                  Thank you Jundo and Muho for this wonderful opportunity.
                  I sat this one yesterday night.

                  Muho sitting is majestic, he sits truly like a statue.
                  I also enjoyed his talk, specially his story with zazen and his arrival and Antaiji.

                  I felt very honored to have this chance to sit with him although some days later.


                  Deep bows

                  Daiyo,

                  #sATtODAY
                  Gassho,Walter

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                  • Nenka
                    Member
                    • Aug 2010
                    • 1239

                    #54
                    I got curious about Mujo after reading about Kyonin's time at Antaiji and sat with this recording a little last night and listened to Mujo's talk while doing some chores. Thought I'd post so this thread will show up in "new posts" if anybody would like to take a look here in the far off future of 2019.

                    Gassho

                    Nenka

                    ST

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                    • Amelia
                      Member
                      • Jan 2010
                      • 4982

                      #55
                      Thank you, Nenka

                      Gassho

                      Sat today, lah
                      求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
                      I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.

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                      • Onka
                        Member
                        • May 2019
                        • 1576

                        #56
                        Originally posted by Nenka
                        I got curious about Mujo after reading about Kyonin's time at Antaiji and sat with this recording a little last night and listened to Mujo's talk while doing some chores. Thought I'd post so this thread will show up in "new posts" if anybody would like to take a look here in the far off future of 2019.

                        Gassho

                        Nenka

                        ST
                        Nice one Nenka.
                        I'll check it out hopefully tomorrow. Today is all about Rakusu sewing and involuntarily sticking needles and pins into fingers. I'm sure in the future the good people at CSI will have a field day looking at blood droplets that are unseen by the naked eye that will inevitably be all over my Rakusu.

                        Gassho
                        Anna
                        ST

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                        • Heisoku
                          Member
                          • Jun 2010
                          • 1338

                          #57
                          Thanks Nenka
                          I too was curious but couldn’t find the link.
                          I found this on YouTube though.



                          Gassho
                          Heisoku
                          ST




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                          Heisoku 平 息
                          Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. (Basho)

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                          • Onka
                            Member
                            • May 2019
                            • 1576

                            #58
                            Originally posted by Nenka
                            I got curious about Mujo after reading about Kyonin's time at Antaiji and sat with this recording a little last night and listened to Mujo's talk while doing some chores. Thought I'd post so this thread will show up in "new posts" if anybody would like to take a look here in the far off future of 2019.

                            Gassho

                            Nenka

                            ST
                            Thanks Nenka.
                            I've watched a few of Muho's videos on YouTube since hearing of Kyonin's intention to Sesshin there and even 'sat' with him when he sat Zazen outside a few days ago. His pre and post Zazen loosening and stretching were really interesting to watch. It's nice to know that even folk who've sat for 30 years still need to set themselves right before starting.
                            Gassho
                            Anna
                            stlah


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