TREELEAF SANGHA online 2-DAY ANGO-JUKAI-ROHATSU RETREAT -- 2015 -- (MAIN PAGE)

[Hotetsu]

Hi all. Hope you all had a wonderful Rohatsu. This weekend was really busy for me so I wasn't able to be with you. This coming weekend I plan on sitting to the recording. Much love and metta to you all!

Gassho,
Hotetsu

#SatToday

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[Myosha]

Thanks to all.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[CK732]

The Rohatsu was amazing! Even with the non issues. I'll watch the almost "lost episode" to end it today [emoji23]

I have never sat so long and of corse life happened - laundry can't wash its self; food can't cook it's self; floors don't mop themselves; even dad don't do things by himself. Jundo's words were in my head "sit with everything that happens, family, work, and a thing else at home and make it a part of the retreat" well, something like that anyway, haha. I sat, walked kinhin, and did everything else on breaks and even though I had to cut kinhin short and even a sitting I did everything mindfully (that was the difference).

Thank you for everything that each of you did to make the Rohatsu the success that it was with or without the technical issues it was a success for me.

Thank you everyone for being with me throughout the retreat we did it together and we was never alone.

Deep bows to you all

Metta[emoji177]

Clarisse Sat2Day


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[CK732]

And I'm even ok with the autocorrect issues in the comment that I posted. Autocorrect don't like me, hahaha!

Gassho

Clarisse


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[Washin]

Hi everyone.

This Rohatsu retreat was a great experience of mine indeed. It was really challening because I encountered some strange technical 'problems' (some of the live netcasts appeared to be without sound, so I had to simultaneously switch on the current recorded version which enabled me to listen to it with 20-30 seconds delay and find a middle way between the eye and the ear) and got sick right on the eve of the sesshin. Nevertheless I have somehow made it all along with no unit missed eventually. Now I've got a nice collection of the videos of sits and wonderful Dharma Talks that I'll be re-watching during the next weeks.

Thank you Jundo, thank you all Unsui for organizing such a great event.
Thank you all Treeleafers for practising together.

Deep bows.

Gassho
Sergey
sat today

[RichardH]

Day 1. Body/brain says: "oh, we're not on the hamster wheel. Must be sleepy time"

Day 2. Body/brain says: "enough sleepy time, back on the hamster wheel!"

.... crows cawed.... clocks ticked.


Thank you and gassho.... need to catch up on one unit.


Daizan
sat today

[CK732]

Day 1. Body/brain says: "oh, we're not on the hamster wheel. Must be sleepy time"

Day 2. Body/brain says: "enough sleepy time, back on the hamster wheel!"

.... crows cawed.... clocks ticked.


Thank you and gassho.... need to catch up on one unit.


Daizan
sat today

I had one clock that ticked so it spent both days in the bathroom with the door closed (except during showers). [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Gassho

Clarisse Sat2Day


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[TenraiToo]

Thanks everyone! My body is sore and I am happy about it!?!? This was my first Rohatsu Retreat and I shall do it again. Thanks to everyone!
Gassho to all sentient beings
Gassho to all the Inos
Gassho Jundo
_/|\_

[Gukan]

Thank you all, especially Jundo and the unsui team who gave such good teachings and the tech team and everyone who had a role in putting the retreat together. And then thank you to all those who sat, on-screen and off - if you had told me a month ago I would feel the presence of a sangha so strongly when sitting 'on my own' at home I'd have thought you were crazy

What a joy to discover the wonders of samu, too. My bathroom tiles have never looked cleaner! I did, OF COURSE, put away all thoughts of attainment and notions of clean and dirty.... but I still made my kids gaze in wonder at the sparkle coming off the grout the next morning

Looking forward to next year already. Deep bows to you all.

Gassho,
Libby

sat today

[justdillon]

Hey all,

I really do not know how I finished this thing last night. I was in excruciating pain every time I sat. I just reminded myself that there are others who experience worse pain everyday of their lives, and that sometimes you cannot escape from bad things. I want to thank all the priests, you really made this thing special, every talk was enlightening. And of course thank you Jundo and all who sat. I think that this zendo is one of the most awesome and unique things ever devised. To be able to sit a retreat at home was awesome.

Gassho,
Dillon

[Shinzan]

Thanks to all who sat, and will sit. The sessions ran seamlessly together. It was great to get to know our unsui better; they did a great job.
All's well that ends well. So much has happened since that sesshin closing ceremony in 2014, like water flowing downstream.
_/st\_ Shinzan

[Shoka]

Thank you to everyone who sat and will sit. Deep bows to Jundo and Unsui for making it all happen. It doesn't come together without dedication.

I would also like to thank the people in our lives who support our practice and allowed us to come together. Deep bows to the significant others, families and friends.

For me that is my better half, who planned his work ahead so he could give up the office for me to use. And when there was an emergency, he waited patiently for the ceremony to end before coming in the office. And also my dog who sat most of the retreat with us without trying to climb in my lap all day long. I think she learned a new trick, "Zazen" translation get on your chair and settle in.

Deep bows to all.

Shoka
sattoday

[Mp]

And also my dog who sat most of the retreat with us without trying to climb in my lap all day long.

Oh yes, I so know that. But my Bodhi I tell you ... he so now knows when the Verse of Atonement and the Four Vows are called, he is up like a shot. Too smart those little ones are.

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[Sekishi]

Oh yes, I so know that. But my Bodhi I tell you ... he so now knows when the Verse of Atonement and the Four Vows are called, he is up like a shot. Too smart those little ones are.

Nine bows for our quadruped friends who bring such joy to our practice.

When the robe verse starts, Sunny appears from wherever he was snoozing to sit Zazen.

Also, he is a very willing "hungry ghost" for Oryoki. [emoji23]

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sattoday

[Anchi]

Deep gratitude and bows to all !


With All Best Dharma Wishes !!


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