Zenshin Tim Buckley

[Yugen]

Dear all,

Zenshin Tim Buckley passed away today. He was a mentor, teacher, and dear friend. My debt and gratitude to him are boundless, like the ocean.

Life is for the living - as he would say with his wry grin, "nothing to see here!"

He would wish us to practice with great urgency, "with our hair on fire."

I have included a link to the piece Sweeping Zen has run on him.

Deep bows
Yugen

http://sweepingzen.com/zenshin-tim-b...f-lung-cancer/

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[Jundo]

...

Our hearts are with you, with Zenshin's family and his other Students and Friends.

Whenever you wish as you feel right, Yugen, please consider to offer at Treeleaf a Memorial Service or Zazenkai, led by you, in Tim's honor and memory (I have some examples for Nishijima Roshi, Jiho Sargent and Azuma Roshi I can send you as examples, if they will help). Whatever you feel is appropriate.

Endless Nine Bows for Zenshin, J

[Yugen]

It would be my honor to do so Jundo.

Deep bows
Yugen

[Mp]

Yugen,

I am sorry for the lose of your friend and mentor Zenshin. Holding all of you in my heart and sending much metta. Deep bows to you, Zenshin, his family, friends, and Sangha. It would be an honour to share in a Treeleaf Memorial for your dear friend.

Nine bows
Shingen

SatToday

[Troy]

Much metta Yugen. Deep bows


..sat2day•

[Anshu Bryson]

Brother Yugen,

We have already spoken on this matter privately, but I again extend my deepest condolences; I would be most humbled to be able to attend a memorial service for your friend and mentor.

Gassho,
Anshu

- sat today -

[Myosha]

Hello,

Please accept condolences.

Metta to all.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Kyotai]

Yugen.

You have spoken so warmly of Tim Buckley. I am sorry for the loss of your friend and teacher.

Much respect

Gassho, Kyotai
Sat today

[Byokan]

Dear Yugen,

my heart is with you, and the family and Sangha of this great man of whom you spoke so highly. May peace and comfort be found in memories and in his wonderful legacy.

*hug*

Gassho
Lisa
sat today

[Josan]

Dear Yugen,
Sorry for your loss.
Gassho,
David
sattoday

[Kokuu]

Dear Yugen

I know how much Zenshin Tim meant to you and he was doubtless similarly loved by others in his sangha and his friends and family.

A sad loss for all.

Deep bows
Kokuu
#sattoday

[Jishin]

I am sorry for you loss Yugen,

Gassho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Nengyo]

Metta

_/\_

[Shugen]

My thoughts are with you Yugen and also Zenshin's other friends and family.

Gassho,

Shugen

#sattoday


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[Kyonin]

Hi Yugen,

My most sincere condolences. I know what Tim means to you and to his students. I know he is loved and will be missed.

I only wish I could've met him.

Let me know if you need anything for the memorial service. In the meantime I'll sit for him, his family and his students.

Gassho and respect,

Kyonin

[Meishin]

So sorry for your loss, Yugen.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat today

[Nindo]

Deep bows.

Gassho
Nindo
sattoday

[Yugen]

Tim's passing is a loss for the entire Zen community. As one of Suzuki's original students, he was there for the beginnings of SFZC and Tassajara.... his career and practice in American Zen Buddhism spans its ties to Japan via Shunryu Suzuki to the american beat poets and native american teachers who have influenced zen to the wide range of practices and lineages in the United States today. While he was initially skpetical of Treeleaf, through our practice together and our 2013 retreat he got to know and respect our teachers and practice. We had many interesting discussions regarding the varieties of Zen practice - he believed in zen as a search for the truth - he was a member of the "sit hard" school - and did not much go in for socially engaged buddhism. As my practice is deeply involved in the latter, he listened carefully to what I had to say and had the admirable quality of challenging his own views as well as my reasoning.

Most importantly, he spent hours directly and indirectly teaching me the priest's craft - how to wear the Kesa, how to work at the altar, how to ring bells, how to run a zendo. This craft is being shared within Treeleaf now by the Unsui. In one of our last conversations I thanked Tim for sharing this craft with me - his response was "that is just your practice manifesting."

Tim's legacy, like life, like practice, flows into the large stream of being, a river joining the larger current as it approaches the open sea.

Deep bows
Yugen

[Mp]

Lovely and beautiful Yugen ... Thank you for being the wind that carries the seed of such a precious teaching. =)

Deep bows
Shingen

SatToday

[Yugen]

Shingen,
Our practice together, your practice, manifest as the wind, bringing renewal and life to a new generation of practitioners. Thank you for sharing this with me. I am nothing but life manifesting as life - dust and seeds together carried by the wind.

Deep bows
Yugen


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[Risho]

I'm sorry to hear this. Metta to all.

Gassho,

Risho
-sattoday

[Heisoku]

Dear Yugen, thank you for sharing Tim's practice here and I extend my heartfelt Gassho to you and to the sangha with whom Tim shared his life. Gassho Heisoku.

[Shokai]

Thank you for sharing your feelings and views of your dear friend and mentor Yugen. We can tell from your compassion how deeply he is missed
Metta to all

[Rich]

Sorry for the loss of your friend and teacher.

Sat today

[Hotetsu]

My condolences, Yugen

Gassho,
Hotetsu

#SatToday

[Meredith]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Much metta to you.

Gassho,
Meredith

SatToday

[Joyo]

Much metta to you, Yugen. He is still here, shining through your practice and into all of ours.

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today

[Jundo]

Dosho posted a talk by Rev. Buckley given at our Treeleaf Retreat in Maine a couple of years ago. It seems that this may be one of the few recorded Teachings by him.

Unfortunately, the sound quality is fairly poor. Can any of our whiz kids with a sound board do something to clear up the sound a bit? It would be a nice gift to leave to others. The Talk is from the 1:41 mark ...



Gassho, Jundo

[Nindo]

Dosho Port posted an obituary on his blog.

Gassho
Nindo
sattoday

[Tb]

Hi.

Our hearts are with all touched by this.

May the force be with us all.
Fugen

[Jika]

Dear Yugen,
so sorry to hear this.

Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

[Dosho]

Yugen,

I have been waiting for proper words to express my condolences, but none have been forthcoming. So, I will simply say that I am so sorry for your loss of a friend and mentor. However, he will always be with you and with all of us through his teachings. I feel very grateful that I got to meet him.

Endless bows my friend.

Gassho,
Dosho