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Thread: Announcement from Jundo: NO MORE ZAZEN at TREELEAF! I'm Sick of It!

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    Announcement from Jundo: NO MORE ZAZEN at TREELEAF! I'm Sick of It!

    I QUIT!

    I have a confession to make, and have already spoken to Taigu about it, he agrees. Time to face the facts ... and the fat. We both CAN'T TAKE ANOTHER MINUTE OF ZAZEN! Where do I get all the hours back I spent staring at dust balls roll across the floor?

    Sorry, but we are OFFICIALLY ENDING ZAZEN SITTING at Treeleaf!

    Anybody want to buy 20 used Zafus? Enough is Enough! All meditating has made me is a nervous wreck!

    Last edited by Jundo; 04-01-2013 at 02:14 PM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Mp
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    I agree ... Who thought of this sitting thing anyway.

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    Well trying to reply also seeems to be fitting into the day. You do this to us every year and yet we still fall for it, at least for a few seconds.... Happy April 1 to you, Taigu and Treeleaf

    Jim

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    Jeeze,
    Only saw this now. What a relief. My ass was getting sore.
    Gassho
    Myozan

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    Jundo, you really should do comedy!

    Happy April fools day!

    Gassho
    Matt

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    Yugen
    Guest
    So what do I do now? Now that I've told everyone here I'm leaving home, I guess I'll just keep camping in the back of my car....

    Happy April 1!

    Deep bows
    Yugen

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    Well, you got me for a whole minute there! Whattha.........
    Jugling the zafu to rumba music is a stroke of genius

    Gassho

    Enkyo

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    Oh, thank God. I was wondering when you would--oh. Ohhhhhhh.

    Never mind.

    10-4

    Jen

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    Guess it's back to surfing TV with my bong.



    Gassho
    Daizan

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

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    Only got me for a second, because I was up a bit too early this morning...
    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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    Don't bother with the games room - you already have one!

    When I showed my hubby a still of the the zendo he took one look at the zafu bench in the middle and asked (in all seriousness)
    'Is that a pool table?'

    Happy April 1st - that's the most amusing stunt yet Jundo


    Gassho

    Willow

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    Nice one Jundo. If I hadn't already been gagged twice this morning you might have led me a little longer.

    Gassho.
    Seimyo

    明 Seimyō (Christhatischris)

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    What am I going to do with my Friday nights?

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    Two things:

    1) "The Five Second Sit" is already trademarked. It is going to be a free dvd included with six minutes abs.

    2) Are there any zafus left? I'm going to need a couple more to do zazumba.
    If I'm already enlightened why the hell is this so hard?

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    Jundo,

    Ha! You didn't get me to fall for it this time! Only took me 5 years.

    Gassho,
    Dosho

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    Hi.

    I'm all for zazumba!

    mtfbwy
    Fugen
    Life is our temple and its all good practice
    Blog: http://fugenblog.blogspot.com/

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    Made me smile for seven minutes. I like the hat, too.
    Shōmon

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    So, what will we do now?
    Thirty minute standing sessions?


    Gassho,
    Heishu

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    What on earth am I doing sitting and running.

    Zazumba is where it's at!!

    This made me laugh like mad

    Thank you Jundo!

    Gassho,

    Kyonin
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    Awesome
    You sound just like my selfish self before sitting...

    also:
    ... we were half drunk

    - LOL'd!

    Gassho
    Shohei

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    Best April fools joke I've seen in a long time. Being new to the group, I went from thinking "this is a funny joke", to "has this guy really cracked". My wife and I laughed through the entire thing. Thanks Jundo. I don't think we can ever laugh enough.

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    "we were in a bar at the time...half drunk" haha! Sadly this sounds a lot like the rationalizations I try and make when I don't feel like sitting, "watching CSI counts right?"

    Gassho to the Cow and the Hippo
    Gassho, Kaishin
    Thanks,
    Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
    Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

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    "Fudgin' Zazen...."


    Shugen
    Meido Shugen
    明道 修眼

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    I thought everyone already used earphones anyway? ;-)

    The Zazumba really could fly, though!


    Nice one, Jundo.


    Andy

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    OK, I've been doing this for fifteen + years, does that mean I do another fifteen before I can dance with the tucows >? ( btw, is it zazumba or zazemba; my spell checker is having a meltdown.)
    Yesterday was another opening day and I am so glad you're giving up listening to baseball during zazen since it looks like the Yankees are in for a bad year already.
    Thank you my friend, may all your sits be good ones,
    合掌,生開
    gassho, Shokai

    仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

    "Open to life in a benevolent way"

    https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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    Hahahahahaha thank you!

    Gassho

    Risho

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    Myoshin
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    Ohhh Jundo,

    You got me for the second year

    Before seeing the video I thought and reading the big post "oh no"
    Really good actor

    Gassho

    Myoshin

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    Though the video is primarily a joke, I enjoy how you conjured meaning out of it, Jundo.

    Gassho
    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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    OKOKOK imagine, i got it on Feb 2nd...really not ready for it....
    "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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    Nindo
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yugen View Post
    So what do I do now? Now that I've told everyone here I'm leaving home, I guess I'll just keep camping in the back of my car....

    Happy April 1!

    Deep bows
    Yugen
    LOL!

    Oh I am sooo glad, I don't need to be self-conscious about watching Friends on DVD anymore!!!!

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    Haha, awesome, Jundo!
    Zazumba - why didn't I have that idea? Perhaps I can come up with some cool bowing moves and sell a DVD (will post Amazon link when it's available). Working title "The 5 Minute Zazumba Vol. I" ...
    no thing needs to be added

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    Personal favorite: showing chest muscle exercise while yelling, "WORK THOSE ABS!
    Gassho,
    Edward
    Last edited by Myosha; 04-03-2013 at 11:07 PM. Reason: good manners

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    Hahaha, good one, Jundo! You had me rolling on the floor the whole time... really needed that laugh!

    (Shohei, just the thought of Jundo and Taigu at a bar cracked me up so much, I almost missed the "half drunk" comment!)

    Gassho,

    Lisa

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    I saw this just now on April 5th. It never struck to me till you said Happy April Fool's Day! Not even when you said today is April 1st.

    These were my thoughts:

    - This Jundo guy is crazy
    - He is really closing this and I trusted him and came here
    - What happened to Taigu; I thought atleast he is sane
    - Did these guys get some kind of enlightenment and moved to the kind of teachings that non-duality teachers teach (Do nothing, you are already enlightened etc)
    - May be Zazen is really waste of time. Nothing is happening for me too

    hahaha. roflmao!

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    Or instead of sitting around the clock for ten days we could all give up Zazen and parrtaaayyy

    Gassho
    Jakuden
    SatToday

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    Man and I just shaved my head too

    Gassho
    Ishin
    Sat Today

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    Oh, are those T-shirts for sale too?

    You know, getting bored of sewn rags, fashion has to start somewhere...

    Gassho
    Jika
    #satonscheduletoday
    治 Ji
    花 Ka

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    This is all too funny! I have laughed my way through all the posts!

    Gassho, Grace.
    Almost sat today -- was going to plus 10 more until Jundo told me not to!
    Sat today and 10 more in honor of Treeleaf's 10th Anniversary!

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    Cool.. Pondering to acquire the zafu juggler skills

    Gassho,
    Washin
    just zazenathoned

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakuden View Post
    Or instead of sitting around the clock for ten days we could all give up Zazen and parrtaaayyy

    Gassho
    Jakuden
    SatToday


    So funny, Jakuden!

    Gassho, Grace.
    Sat today and 10 more in honor of Treeleaf's 10th Anniversary!

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    'Half drunk', 'zazumba', 'working abs with the chest exercise'. Loved it.

    Gassho
    Karen
    Just about to sit for zazemathon but going to watch CSI instead!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daizan View Post
    Guess it's back to surfing TV with my bong.



    Gassho
    Daizan
    hahhahhhahahhahahaahahahaahhahhhahah Yeah - I've converted to Big Lebowski Buddhism too.

    I've also found the cure to suffering (not getting what I want); it's to buy what I want when I want it. Duh! It's not rocket science!

    Gassho,

    Risho
    -sattoday

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    Well, I am glad this was reposted, because I did not get to the annual April Fool this year ...

    I was planning to announce my run for President of the USA !! The Dharma Donald!



    However, well, it will have to wait 4 years!

    My platform? As a Zen guy, I am both "for" and "against" everything, at the same time!

    My plan for solving the Middle East situation? Getting everybody to "just stop"!

    My immigration plan? Eliminate all borders ... of the MIND!

    My run was guaranteed to get big "Tea Party" support.

    I am against war with Canada!

    Our court system should be replaced with meditation!

    The defense department should be replaced with meditation!

    In fact, everything should be meditation!

    My tax policy? The Sound of One Hand Clapping!

    Buddha on the dollar bill! Buddha Bucks!

    Change the national anthem to the Heart Sutra!

    ... never got much further though. Given the jokes, probably good that it didn't.

    Gassho, J

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    Quote Originally Posted by Risho View Post
    Yeah - I've converted to Big Lebowski Buddhism too.
    We have a gathering of folks that do Zazen in my basement once per week and a new guy showed up one time and we did some zazen and then hung out with the other regulars. I never really pay attention to what goes on outside my little world. Several months later I watched the Big Levowski and recognized one of the actors from somewhere. I then connected the dots. He was the dude that had been in my basement! Ever since I been a fan of the movie the Big Lebowski.

    Gassho, Jishin, ST

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    Wow cool Jishin!

    Jundo you have my vote!!!!

    Gassho,
    Jakuden
    SatToday


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakuden View Post
    Wow cool Jishin!
    Well, it wasn't the dude dude but it was Smokey, the character that was bowling with him when John Goodman went a little cray cray. He is a Tibetan practitioner and his wife has dharma transmission. He is a cool dude. .

    Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

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    "Butt" (HaHaHa) I was just getting started....

    Gassho, BillH
    SatToday

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