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    Treeleaf Coffee House - Updates and Secretary Notes

    Hello everyone,

    With the recent change / no-change from the Treeleaf Tea Party to the Treeleaf Coffee House, Jundo suggested we start a new thread to post the secretary notes in. Whomever acts as secretary to a Coffee House meeting, please post a simple "20,000 foot view" of what was discussed (e.g. specifics are not necessary). Additionally, if anyone has further details, links, etc. to share about a meeting, please post them here as well.

    Anyone looking for notes from the Tea Party from 2010 through 2015, please see the old secretary notes thread:
    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...The-Tea-Party)

    Thank you all for sharing your time and practice together.

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #SatToday
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    Hi everyone,

    I am reposting the secretary report for 01/17/2016 to get us started here:

    - Jukai and a melding of groups
    - Old fashioned hot chocolate
    - Netflix Tea Documentary: http://www.allinthistea.com/ (maybe?)
    - NHK World (channel and app): http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
    - Where is the path?
    - The black belt frays and becomes white again
    - Alien in a Can
    - Seeing Psycho for the first time again
    - Turkish / Greek Coffee
    - How to serve hairy food (hint: scrape the hair off)
    - Google, how DOES it work?
    - Insight Timer
    - Star Wars Land
    - Playing a piano, listening to silence
    - Connecting sitting groups
    - Now that is a little Theremin: https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ed82/
    - PUNny!
    - Hotai and Santa
    - Hidden Buddha, Crouching Psychiatrist
    - Church of the Later Day Dude
    - Where am I, and where did this ink come from?
    - 12 steps and Buddha

    Thank you all for coming together and sharing today. It was lovely to see you all.

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #SatToday

    P.S. Rodney / Banto let me know that the video we discussed is called "Cultural Trilogy - Beauty in a Cup of Tea" and is on Amazon Prime video (not Netflix).
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    Hello everyone,

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse Chatter Report for Jan 24th, 2016

    - Snow and sunny weather
    - The old days
    - Extreme sports and crazy moments when we were young
    - Squeaky zazen, actually, squeaky chairs
    - Our busy lives and getting to forum threads
    - Finding balance in practice
    - A Star Trek marathon to take a break from busy life
    - What shows to watch and not watch
    - Playing with computers and technology
    - Practice is both on and off the cushion; being present in both
    - The value of friends and family
    - Finding balance with and within the Precepts
    - Meeting and supporting veterans
    - Our we really secure online; is private information vulnerable
    - May the Force be with you
    - Lay and Ordained ... being of service to the community
    - How the gift of giving comes back around
    - School experiences

    There you have it ... was a great chat today folks, thank you! =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

    #sattoday

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    Hello everyone,

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse Chatter Report for Jan 31st, 2016

    - Memorizing chants
    - Multi-cultural Sangha
    - Dharma translation variations
    - Sewing
    - Dharma books
    - Finding balance when shopping and not buying what we don't need
    - Foods that are good for you
    - Factoids
    - Taking care of our physical self
    - Funny moments after surgery
    - The value of giving compliments over complaining
    - The openness of the Unitarian Church
    - #all lives matter
    - Dealing with police and one's upbringing
    - Making non-bias decisions
    - Beans beans the magical fruit ... the more you eat, the more you ... =)
    - Different kinds of foods
    - Maturity or lack there-of and practice
    - Dealing and managing our biases
    - The value of difficult experiences and encounters
    - The evolution and/or the innovation of the Dharma
    - The history of the Buddha
    - Posters and advertisements

    Thanks for another great chat folks. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

    #sattoday

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    Hello everyone,

    I forgot to post the secretary report for 02/14/2016, so here it is:

    - Sitting with the silence of Super Bowl Sunday
    - Sitting as parents, sitting with children
    - Medical practice, Dharma practice
    - Morning sits vs. evening sits
    - Ingress RES Virginia / Ingress ENL Georgia
    - Push the button for dopamine and serotonin
    - Snowbirds
    - Sacred lands
    - Sitting with pain
    - Ango
    - Letting go, even of practice

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

    #SatToday
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    Hello everyone,

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for February 14th, 2016

    - "Pump Up the Volume"
    - The Googles says, "Oh snap."
    - Folding the rakusu. Link: http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...akusu-How-to-s
    - It is cold here. Is it cold there?
    - Boom and bust
    - Do non-sentient beings have Buddha-nature?
    - Who realizes Buddha-nature?
    - The Six Realms
    - The not-quite rakusu: a hangesa (what I believe we looked at) OR a wagesa
    - Cloth colors and traditions
    - The International Bacon Incident
    - Non-denominational support
    - Non-Idolotry
    - Cameras: new, old, really old, and really really old.
    - Dharma names

    Thank you all for coming together to manifest Sangha.

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #SatToday
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    Gassho to all

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for February 14th, 2016

    - Health
    - Dhamma Brothers
    - Upaya Zen chaplaincy
    - Spam, podcasts and mailing lists
    - Buddhism on the internet
    - More work for Sekishi
    ? Quarterly report
    - Finding Treeleaf
    - Congrats to Fugen
    - May the Force be with you ��"the universe is not two"
    - Wagesa
    - Family and Treeleaf
    - Zazenki online vs. Brick and Mortar
    - Sitting options
    - Sri Lankan experience
    - Therevadan precepts, practices, ordination, nuns
    - Buddhist women
    - The Hidden Lamp
    - Sekishi's Kesa
    - Using the Rakusu in a different group
    - Origins of the Rakusu and Kesa
    - Silent Calvin Cooledge

    As always a pleasure

    Gassho,
    Marc
    Sat
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    Forgive me if I have uploaded a file in a place it should not go but someone asked me at the coffee discussion today to post a picture of my students in Sri Lanka. Here is a group of them with me visiting the most sacred Buddhist temple in the country, the Temple of the Tooth. There is also, behind his former royal palace now temple, an amazing Museum of International Buddhism. I am often asked if the colors of the robes have any significance and the answer is no. Some countries tend to have one color or another but there is no way to tell any sort of ranking or group from the robe color. These students are, by the way, all from Myanmar, studying in Buddhist universities in Sri Lanka in Kandy or Colombo and they all enrolled in this intensive language course during their winter break. Amazing students and an experience I will cherish all my life.

    Sattoday

    Joko

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    That's wonderful Joko, thank you for sharing. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

    #sattoday


    Sent from my mobile, cause I am out & about! =)

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    Cool pic!

    Congrats to Fugen,, does that mean what I think?

    Gassho
    Jakuden
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakuden View Post
    Cool pic!

    Congrats to Fugen,, does that mean what I think?

    Gassho
    Jakuden
    SatToday
    Hi.

    That depends on what you think.
    But yes, a mini-Fugen is due next week or so.

    Mtfbwy
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fugen View Post
    Hi.

    That depends on what you think.
    But yes, a mini-Fugen is due next week or so.

    Mtfbwy
    Fugen
    Fugen was kind enough to share this invitro photo with me ...



    Gassho, J

    SatToday
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Haha cute pic... i thought maybe s/he had made her grand entrance, it seemed like it should be getting close now! I'm sure she will be born with lightsaber in hand, ready to take on the dark side.

    Gassho
    Jakuden
    SatToday

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fugen View Post
    Hi.

    That depends on what you think.
    But yes, a mini-Fugen is due next week or so.

    Mtfbwy
    Fugen


    Gassho
    Shingen

    #sattoday

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jundo View Post
    Fugen was kind enough to share this invitro photo with me ...



    Gassho, J

    SatToday
    Hello,

    Outstanding. All the best, mate!

    So . . . the birth on Hangout?

    Just sayin' . . .^^


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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Myosha View Post
    Hello,

    Outstanding. All the best, mate!

    So . . . the birth on Hangout?

    Just sayin' . . .^^


    Gassho
    Myosha sat today
    Hi.

    Thank you, we thought more in lines of periscope, to compensate for the timezones...

    But seriously, we'll keep you posted on the events.
    Right now, everybody's just tired, she don't sleep which means i don't and she can't do much home but rest which means i work 2 Jobs and take care of mostly everything at home, so...
    Yeah, it is all good practice.

    Thank you again My friends.

    Mtfbwy
    Fugen

    #Sat2day
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    Fugen,

    Deep bows my Brother
    Yugen


    sat2day

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    Hello everyone,

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for February 29th, 2016

    - Chair Yoga
    - Sitting groups
    - Sitting in the morning, sitting in the evening
    - Buddhist fora
    - Trek, Battlestar and Ron Moore's evolution
    - Taishi's book
    - Presenting: A Prison Escape
    - The Okesa
    - Compassion and tornadoes up the road
    - Yokoji Temple in CA
    - Chesapeake Bay
    - Group and core group
    - The Truth of Writing
    - Caretakers
    - Being the Professor
    - Fugen and Jannica - MTFBWY!

    Thank you all for manifesting Sangha.

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #SatToday
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    Hey folks,

    Here is the breakdown for todays Coffeehouse chatter ...

    - Star Trek (both original and next generation)
    - Sending our ashes to space
    - I am Spock; I am not Spock
    - Fugen dropped by with Momma and baby Noah
    - Where we all live
    - Family & kids going to college; what they study
    - Cut backs in our school systems
    - Our pets
    - Horses coming as Coffeehouse guests
    - Rakusu: how one gets one and the value/teaching of sewing one
    - Meanings behind our Dharma names
    - Life gets in the way
    - Babylon 5 & Battlestar Galactica
    - Windows 10 security
    - Lotus Sutra
    - Kids using drugs & alcohol
    - AA & NA having an open approach to different religions and/or faiths
    - What it is to be a priest

    Thank you all for a great sit down and chit chat ... always good to get to know you all better. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

    #sattoday

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    Hello Leafers,

    here is this weeks Coffeehouse ramblings. =)

    - Finding balance in life and the Dharma
    - Technology and its challenges
    - Wacky weather
    - Funny work stories
    - Here comes Spring .... and taxes!
    - What? Unethical and egotistical CEOs? No! *LOL*
    - Learning Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement)
    - Tea ceremony and making a good cup of tea
    - Sewing the rakusu
    - Being a vegetarian or meat eater and the precepts
    - Google+ and its goofiness
    - Ham Radio
    - Taking care of your health (make sure you get your check-ups folks) =)
    - Technology, emulation, and Turing Completeness
    - Old Zenith TV ... is it a TV controller or an Intergalactic Transport Device?

    Zenith_Space_Command.jpg

    Gassho
    Shingen

    s@today

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    Hello folks,

    Was a short Coffeehouse today, but we had a nice surprise with a visit from Fugen and baby Noah, so that was very nice. =) Also we sat together in celebration for Treeleaf's 10th year ... here is some of what we talked about.

    - Shape shifting
    - Star Wars (the new one specifically)
    - Holding babies
    - The smell of new babies
    - Making bread

    Gassho
    Shingen

    s@today

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    Hello everyone,

    While I was away I did not post secretary reports. So here are a few weeks worth.


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for April 10th, 2016

    - Old friends. New friends.
    - Snow!
    - Circadian rhythm - it is DARK out there
    - Mammalian memory - babies, faces, and smells
    - Name your price - good or bad (and the "maybe so" tale)
    - I [heart] NY
    - 20M people
    - 10 days for 10 years
    - "The Winter That Never Ended"
    - "Opening up time" - chop wood, carry water, do the dishes
    - Lawrence Welk
    - Canada (and the Film Board(s) of Canada)
    - Danger Pay
    - Beach Combers
    - __Trouble with Traci__
    - The nature of things
    - "Going Down the Road" by Dan Shabib
    - Politics and borders
    - President = Prime Minister + King/Queen?
    - Benedict Arnold - the hero across the lake
    - The same but different
    - "Slavery" vs. slavery
    - RZC and Xerox
    - The health and viability of PBS
    - Anglophone - Francophone
    - Symbols disconnected from source materials
    - "Too much skin, not enough bees."


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for April 24th, 2016

    - Will in England
    - Spouses in practice - timing
    - Audience at Sarnia
    - Photos and stories from ordination
    - Body practice
    - And now, dirty laundry...
    - Well that panel is backwards...
    - Dog hair and retreats
    - Sesshin silence, radio silence
    - The young man's dungeon
    - "You and misery until you fade and misery becomes universal suchness"
    - Theravada and nine day retreats
    - The heavenly realm of stretching the legs
    - Mindful movements and the awareness speed limit
    - Wishing for an experience while on retreat
    - Quadracopter lotus
    - "What does it feel like to want to have an experience?"
    - Goal?: uproot defilements and no longer be reborn into this world
    - Goal?: raise funds to build something
    - Buddhist fora
    - Sangha that uses a forum vs being a forum
    - Virtual vs "virtual"...
    - "Hollow mountain Zendo" in Minecraft...
    - Treeleaf 3.0
    - Noah, Jannica, Fugen, and Brian Karrig (sp?) at the Jazz festival
    - Injections, pain medications, being immobile
    - Pain groups
    - Self sabotage and politics
    - Sitting in chairs


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for May 1st, 2016

    - Google plus responsibilities (fukudenkai)
    - Google events changing again?
    - It's not safe to hope for the best (without preparing for the worst)
    - Google video
    - Hosting providers
    - Building a coffin...
    - Kylo Ren and Vader (and Bill Watterson)
    - Wookie the Chew
    - Yoda statues!
    - Buddha in Minecraft
    - Maroon and black...
    - Right speech
    - Letting go, but it still stings...
    - Priests and spouses
    - Europe, Dogen Sangha, and Treeleaf
    - Membership and numbers
    - Just sitting vs. "just sitting"
    - Sangha getting us to the cushion
    - Buddhist practice and marketing
    - Why priests? YOU do the work!
    - Substandard Internet
    - Genealogy
    - "Yankee"
    - The two party system
    - The electoral college
    - Abolitionists and methods
    - "Someone is wrong on the Internet!"
    - The US is NOT a post-racial society
    - Jerrymandering

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

    #sattoday
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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for May 8th, 2016

    - Juzu beads
    - Don't (sun)burn the baby
    - Forest fires in spring
    - Moving to a cabin (without kids)
    - Siding and houses
    - Babies and sleeping
    - "Today is the first day of the rest of my life"
    - Joko Beck
    - 140 characters of self aggrandizement and offensiveness
    - The Donald and the future of the Unitary Executive
    - Who will be the First Lady to HRC?
    - Hanging photography
    - WiiU and PS4
    - Walking the neighborhood
    - Virtualization and The Cloud
    - White beard vs. grey beard
    - AA
    - The serenity prayer
    - The earth in 300 years...
    - Sociology of death
    - Where the ashes go
    - Facebook vacations
    - Cameras, prime lenses, rectilinear lenses and other photo nerdia

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #sattoday
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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for May 15th, 2016

    - What's in your cup?
    - The view from your window
    - Hawaii
    - Spam sandwiches
    - Vacations with kids
    - Kids making the world new again
    - Grey hairs
    - Weaponizing Murphy's law
    - The social cost of hyper-miling
    - Keep your hands on the wheel
    - Dawgs and dogs
    - The U.S. elections
    - Healthcare and pre-existing conditions
    - College
    - Squirrels
    - Oahu
    - Monastery in New Zealand
    - A Treeleafer in Rohan
    - Electric fences
    - Wearing the Kesa

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #sattoday
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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for May 29th, 2016

    - From Indiana..
    - Hawaii slideshow
    - Feral chickens
    - Scouts Canada
    - Kittens
    - 0c to 30c in one week
    - The gift of air conditioning
    - High fructose corn syrup
    - Fermentation in its many forms
    - "Sushi and Beyond"
    - Japanese cuisine in Hawaii
    - Debt and Daruma
    - Motion sickness
    - Cord cutting
    - "The Last of Sheila"
    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Sheila
    - Quadrupeds finding home

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

    #sattoday
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    Wild temperature and weather changes, check! Fibromyalgia and weather changes don't get along. I am interested to know about the "debt and daruma" topic: is that a Buddhist form of debt management?

    Gassho
    Kim
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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for June 19th, 2016

    - "Oh bluetooth"
    - Fathers
    - Cow-nose rays
    - The cloud...
    - Pain
    - Heat
    - Sewing
    - Hiragana & katakana
    - Tsunami stories
    - $$$
    - Medicine
    - The Marx Brothers
    - "Lydia the Tattooed Lady"
    - Dabbling in music
    - The Treeleaf Band ^_^
    - Gandalf the Grey (Cat)
    - NOMs the Dog
    - The domestication of dogs (and cats)
    - The Donner Party

    Here is Lydia's song:




    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #sattoday
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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for June 26th, 2016

    - Kesa practice
    - Facilitating chants
    - Being greeted by name
    - Sitting in a room
    - The four horses
    - Hard lessons go deep
    - The temperaments of sentient beings
    - Narcissistic disorder?
    - Stepping outside ourselves
    - Gary Snider
    - Physical limits
    - Birth, sickness, old age, death
    - "The Sun, My Heart"
    - The definition of poetry
    - Tranquility that "I" feel
    - The sense of "me" = dukkha

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #sattoday
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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for June 26th, 2016

    - Kesa practice
    - Facilitating chants
    - Being greeted by name
    - Sitting in a room
    - The four horses
    - Hard lessons go deep
    - The temperaments of sentient beings
    - Narcissistic disorder?
    - Stepping outside ourselves
    - Gary Snider
    - Physical limits
    - Birth, sickness, old age, death
    - "The Sun, My Heart"
    - The definition of poetry
    - Tranquility that "I" feel
    - The sense of "me" = dukkha

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #sattoday
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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for July 3rd, 2016

    - Cancer and heredity
    - Internet and Thunderstorms
    - The birth of Spock
    - The Wrath of Khan
    - Inauspicious beginnings
    - Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
    - Sitting in a chair
    - Pain killers
    - Health insurance
    - Mothers and fathers
    - Soto Zen in Japan
    - UU Buddhism Study Group
    - Bipolar disorder
    - The Harvard Brain Bank
    - Direct Interment
    - Sobriety Day by Day
    - "I'm OK"
    - St. John of the Cross
    - "Living Buddha, Living Christ"
    - The Purple Pen

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #sattoday
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    Hello everyone,

    Just as a reminder, if you ever wish to join the Coffeehouse, but did not receive an invitation for some reason (there is no accounting for the vagaries of Google Plus), I always post direct links to the Hangout in this thread:

    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...f-Coffee-House

    Gassho,
    Sekishi
    #sattoday
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    Hi. Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for July 17th, 2016


    - Pain
    - Infant health
    - medicine
    - Fraying fabric
    - Air conditioning during sesshin
    - Conifers displacing birch
    - Twisters
    - people chasing twisters
    - Swedish farmland
    - European Union
    - A cat meowed
    - Migration
    - Work without citizenship
    - Multiculturalism
    - A Chinese government sanctioned Dalai Lama
    - The Chicago Bulls and mindfulness
    - Short and long sittings
    - Half lotus vs. Burmese
    - Getting into the full lotus and remaining stuck like a pretzel
    - Poultry
    - Raising Kids
    - A new Star Trek TV show with a large budget
    - Jean-Luc Picard was the best captain
    - Babylon 5
    - Space Engine


    Gassho
    Daizan

    sat today

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    Jean-Luc Picard was the best captain
    Yes!!!!

    Thank you all for keeping the coffee or tea house open.
    I'd like to join, but (yawn)

    Gassho
    Jika
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    治 Ji
    花 Ka

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    Hello everyone,

    Was going through my notebook, and found notes from an old Coffeehouse...

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for April 17th, 2016

    - Hospitals and surgeries
    - Jukai and ceremonies
    - Blessings of clothing
    - Nursing is a calling
    - Clergy
    - "I'm hopeful" and "Be hopey" (Ajahn Brahm)
    - "Enterprise"
    - Becoming human
    - Houses
    - Care callers and volunteers
    - Crypto-currency
    - We do not get to choose...
    - Bowie
    - New Model Army - "I love the world!"
    - Benny Hill and "Yakkity Sax" (makes everything better!)
    - Charleston Heston and One Hundred Thousand Frogs Per Mile
    - "Oh poop, I'm going to die"
    - Nausicaa
    - Daizan and The Titans of Brah
    - Techo lenses for smartphones
    - Opiates
    - Bubbles!

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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    Hello everyone,

    Got a few weeks worth of notes to check in with here...

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    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for July 10th, 2016

    - "Fun" with Google Hangouts
    - Greed (look out -- it comes in many forms!)
    - Buddha in the sock drawer
    - Live in the now (where else can you live?)
    - Wifi is also "fun"
    - "New person"
    - We may not meant to walk on the sides of our feet...
    - What's in Marc's lunch?
    - That is a big blackberry!
    - How do we all access the forum?
    - Opening the Hand of Thought
    - Molecular Gastronomy
    - Dissecting a Hoho
    - Who toasts a poptart?
    - Prime day!
    - The harmonica
    - Thrift store finds
    - Paranoia
    - Up the creek...
    - Arthur Murry Hollywood Review
    - "The Beef of a Thousand Cows"
    - Pigeonholes that put food on the table
    - Oppositional Defiance Disorder ^_^

    ---

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for July 24th, 2016

    - Poor hot dogs
    - Knee replacement
    - All the computers
    - Synthesis
    - Pokemon Go
    - Dharma names
    - Right speech and teh Facebooks
    - Practice in not putting up a wall...
    - Parable: "The Three Questions" **
    - The Tenzo
    - Sociology and Organizations
    - Kids
    - Sitting and spouses
    - Please, lets all be verbs!

    The parable discussed was "The Three Questions" by Tolstoy:
    - What is the right time to begin anything?
    - Who are the right people to listen to?
    - What is the most important thing to do?

    You can read the parable here:
    http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2736/

    But (spoiler alert) here are the answers:
    - NOW
    - The person you are with
    - Do good to the person you are with

    ---

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for July 31th, 2016

    - Facebook
    - Almost Ango time!
    - Enku's 120,000 Buddhas
    - How would YOU carve a Buddha?
    - Fugen and Kesa fabric
    - "KFC"
    - Views
    - Fugen's wedding!
    - "Do or do not, there is no try."
    - Starbucks
    - Tesla and charging stations
    - Green building codes
    - Ingress
    - Utopia
    - Protein folding
    - The Sheldonest Person
    - Sewing and Jukai
    - Google Plus retiring
    - Events on the forum
    - Meeting
    - On being first tenor
    - Paraguayian harperists
    - 29 Years Sober
    - Uchiyama
    - More Ingress..

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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  37. #37
    As always in the long tradition, the notes sound mouth-watering!

    Gassho
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    Hello everyone,

    Checking in with notes from the August Coffeehouse meetings.

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    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for August 7th, 2016

    - Google+ struggles
    - "Companion on the Way"
    - Upholding promises
    - Transmission
    - Sewing
    - A trip to Europe?
    - Yugen training in Okinawa
    - Married life
    - Facebook - the Ego Manifestation Chamber
    - SPAM
    - Prayer without an answer
    - Metta "Victems"
    - Thank you. I am sorry. Making people smile.
    - Humor as a gift
    - Treeleaf as self-selecting "goodies"
    - Kesa parts, Rakusu parts
    - The Coffeehouse and Ango?
    - Flattening groups and relationships
    - "Official Sittings" and "Community Sittings"
    - Podcast episodes

    ---

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for August 14th, 2016

    - Ango partners
    - Meditation cushions for chairs
    - Facebook "Friends"
    - To be a "good Buddhist"
    - Try on my Karma, I'll try on yours.
    - Online churches
    - Being Christian, Practicing Buddhism
    - TRUMP!
    - Expecting something
    - Lawn maintenance and the Verse of Atonement
    - Sobriety
    - The Heart Sutra
    - Photography
    - Knee replacement
    - Good bricks, bad bricks
    - Narcotics
    - Jesus the man
    - "Starstuff"
    - Leonard Cohen
    - Lincoln
    - Library fines
    - Average teachers, normal humans
    - A trip to Amsterdam
    - Never a latecomer, just get started!

    ---

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for August 21th, 2016

    - Qualia
    - Factory farming
    - Petroleum based farming
    - Indian Agricultural Program
    - Progressive taxation
    - The training program
    - Kittens and Feline Allergies
    - Wildfires
    - Totoro
    - Rail travel
    - Washington DC and the cherry blossoms
    - Fireworks
    - Cats and spray "cheese"
    - Soda / pop / Coke / Pepsi
    - Dam Duck Race
    - Sewing
    - Baseball
    - College loans
    - Vertical markets
    - Swiss Crackers

    No really, there is a "Dam Duck Race": http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/l...001d44ccc.html

    ---

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for August 28th, 2016

    - Ango commitments
    - Bacon!
    - Mindful eating and MFP
    - Thich Nhat Hanh Book: "Savor"
    - Kwan Um traditions
    - When is a gong not a gong (hint: when it is something else, like a bowl, or a pan)
    - Small schools
    - TNH
    - Ango / Jukai
    - "Uncommitted Agnostic"
    - Ancient Dragon Zen
    - The difficulty finding a live chicken ... for Jukai?!
    - "Coming out" as Buddhist
    - Movie: "Dharma Brothers"
    - Metta chant
    - Come to the Dharma -- we have tea and cookies (and walls to stare at)
    - Dana collection for rent
    - The 108 prostration workout!
    - Train meditation
    - "The Five Minute Buddhist" and Harold Ramis
    - http://tricycle.org/trikedaily/five-minute-buddhist/
    - Daytrips and vacations
    - "You cannot step in the same stream twice."


    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for September 4th, 2016:

    - Google Plus
    - Facebook
    - Servers
    - Clinton Emails
    - The City of Treeleaf
    - How to *properly* take someone's temperature
    - "I like having a clear mind, so I try to get enough sleep."
    - The enteric nervous system
    - Bariatric surgery and mental formations
    - Dharma names
    - Dokusan
    - Two teachers
    - Timezones
    - Insight Timer ("I don't have to show you any stinking badges"...)
    - Tricycle - "When Would Buddha Eat"
    - http://tricycle.org/trikedaily/when-would-buddha-eat/
    - "Term Intensive" and online retreats
    - Cutting away worldly attachments
    - Friendly cities
    - Enlightenment: It is NOT chasing your friends with a Roman candle...
    - Enlightenment: Is it like burning trash in a hurricane?
    - The art museum as a sacred space
    - Digital art, and the politics of software
    - Supporting each other in Sangha
    - Like attracts like...

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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  40. #40
    I just bust out laughing at a few of these, and my family asked why ...... so I just said "Buddhist jokes" and they looked at me like I had three heads. I wish I could have been there, but I would have been laughing too hard

    Gassho
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    Gassho Ongen
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    Quote Originally Posted by allwhowander View Post
    ...... so I just said "Buddhist jokes" and they looked at me like I had three heads.
    I found an old picture of you back when you had ELEVEN heads...

    Avalokiteshvara.jpg

    That is Avalokiteshvara with 11 heads and many arms (sometimes a thousand of them)! All the better to hear the cries of the world and to offer help (I think each of the heads / faces also sometimes corresponds with an aspect of compassion):
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokite%C5%9Bvara

    May we all listen and offer compassionate help when we can.

    Gassho,
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    Hello everyone,

    Here is the Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for September 4th, 2016:

    - Painting and art with a deadline
    - Ango partners
    - Keep it simple (in the whispering cedars)
    - Relationships and significant others
    - Life creates obstacles
    - Seeking to attain
    - Mind theater, mouth theater
    - "The World is Made of Stories" (David Loy)
    -- http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/world-made-stories
    - Lisa Simpson narrates my life...
    - Boogers on a shoe!?
    - Tinnitus and resonant heads
    - Hearing everything, hearing nothing
    - Slow connections, fast connections
    - Board certification and fellows
    - Psychiatry and feeling too much
    - Traits vs. disease vs. disorder
    - Diagnosis of certifiable politicians
    - Getting started with Ango
    - The life expectancy of married men and married women
    - Nitrates in European wine
    - Matchmaker matchmaker make me a match!
    - "Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?" (Ajahn Brahm)
    -- http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/who-o...truckload-dung
    - "The Four Noble Truths" (Ajahn Semado)
    -- Ebook version: http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/4nobltru.pdf
    - The Buddha Basics - fundamental water in which the ancients swam
    - Putting your (Zen) pants on one leg at a time
    - Willy Wonka on the big screen
    - Gene Wilder (x4)

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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  44. #44
    Sorry I missed it... next week!

    GAssho

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  45. #45
    Some difficulty starting up but pain shared is half the pain and laughter shared is doubled.

    Switching Sanga to YouTube?
    Sekishi Lives!
    Medication onset
    Grieving animal and human
    Pain
    Being the Mama Grizzly
    Chest surgery
    Film accidents
    Tv tropes
    Beards
    Laughter relief of pain/ Alan Funt

    Gabapentin
    Internet connection
    Ring tone
    Max headroom

    Horrors of life
    Animal shelter stories
    Evolution of dogs
    Vacuuming dead skin cells
    Kusala Bhikshu and zen cats
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    Thank you for taking notes Marc.

    Deep bows,
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    Hello everyone,

    I am way behind in posting secretary reports (what can I say, I am good at taking them, bad at typing them up apparently). :-/

    So here is a backlog of reports from September 11 through today (November 13)

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for September 11th, 2016:

    - Painting
    - Deadlines for artists
    - Ango partners
    - Keep it simple cedars
    - Having partners and spouses who help with practice
    - Life creates obstacles...
    - Seeking to attain
    - Mind Theater
    - "The World is Made of Stories": http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/world-made-stories
    - Lisa Simpson narrates my life!
    - Boogers on shoes...
    - Tinnitus and resonant heads
    - Hearing everything => hearing nothing
    - Slow connections, fast connections
    - Board Certifications and Fellows
    - Psychiatry and feeling too much
    - Trait / disease / disorder
    - The diagnosis of politicians
    - Getting started with Ango
    - The life expectancy of married men vs. married women
    - Nitrates in European wine
    - Matchmakers
    - "Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung": http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/who-o...truckload-dung
    - Ajahn Sumedho's "The Four Noble Truths": http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/4nobltru.pdf
    - Buddha Basics - the water in which we swim
    - Putting your (Zen) pants on, one leg at a time


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for September 25th, 2016:

    - Windows 10 updates
    - PPEs
    - Baby book email account
    - Kid Logic
    - "One in a row?"
    - "I amn't going to do that."
    - "When do we get small?"
    - Facetime at the oil rig
    - Foreign object in the ear? Make sure to check the nose too...
    - Soda / Pop
    - Ango at the drive-in movie
    - Seiza
    - Buckwheat vs. kapok
    - Sitting room?
    - Deduction PRO!
    - Fat and healthy
    - Heart rate and Zazen
    - "Breathe" app
    - Intermittent fasting
    - Reddit: an intoxicant
    - "One of US!"
    - Cats and power supplies
    - The Cone of Shame
    - Gandalf the Grey (Cat)
    - Kosher Zen
    - Chromebook vs. notebook
    - Ginko leaf pattern


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for October 2nd, 2016:

    - Opiates
    - Facebook messenger
    - Camera
    - Chromebook
    - University Training
    - Reading Dharma books
    - Saying "Yes" to all
    - Leaving the candle burning
    - Burning down the house
    - Hypomanic episode
    - 211
    - Planting trees
    - NAMI Hall of Fame
    - Reaching for the missing dog
    - Jon Kabat-Zinn
    - Hospice
    - Shel Silverstein (and "avoidance by incompetence")


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for October 9nd, 2016:

    - Raj at midnight
    - Dharma of the Hokey Pokey
    - Vicodin + meditation: a powerful combination?
    - Trains of thought: clickity-clack
    - Loosing our tempers
    - ANGER!
    - Who are the heroes of Treeleaf?
    - Unitarians online (Facebook)
    - Sewing retreat
    - The spouses of Treeleaf
    - The Friends of C.E.T.
    - Working in fast food
    - Everything we encounter is our lives...
    - Ugh, new software
    - Muho and "the German approach" to Antiji
    - Samu
    - TODO lists
    - The frequency of a cat purr
    - "I made a lot of things mine!"
    - Can't Cook, Won't Cook (in SPAAAAAACE!)
    - Sacrificing watermelons...
    - Friendships as youngsters
    - "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" -- Stand By Me

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for October 23nd, 2016:

    (Marc took notes on Oct. 23 too -- see above for a second opinion :-)

    - A case for pop-tarts
    - Dogs and people
    - "Poop! There is IS!"
    - Cat food has more fat, dog food more protein
    - Valve replacements
    - "STS" score
    - Arnold's voice after valve replacement in Batman
    - Aragorn kicks a helm
    - Star Trek: First Contact
    - tvtropes.org? I hope you have four hours to kill...
    - A beard reveals more than it hides...
    - Alms rounds
    - Vaccines
    - Ring tones
    - Max headroom!
    - CPR for infants
    - Cat intubation
    - Kusala Bhikshu


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for October 30th, 2016:

    - Giving away computers
    - Opiates
    - Rakusu bag
    - Esophageal ultrasound
    - The Lord's Prayer
    - Linda Lovelace
    - Unitarians online (Facebook)
    - Servers
    - "Triumph of the Nerds"
    - CP/M and MS-BASIC


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for November 6th, 2016:

    - Don't ruminate, MEDITATE!
    - Sit where you are
    - Baby gate on the cat room
    - Oh bandwidth...
    - Compassionate argument
    - UK Treeleafers
    - "Old Path, White Clouds": http://www.parallax.org/product/old-...of-the-buddha/
    - "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching": https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Buddhas.../dp/0767903692


    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for November 13th, 2016:

    - Computer updates
    - Van Gogh
    - Checking out artworks from the library
    - Going to the park? Leave your camera home...
    - Politics, the US election, and Dukkha
    - As It Should vs. As I Would Like
    - Cats everywhere: "Doors, how do they work?"
    - Politics, the US election, and Dukkha
    - And another thing about cats...
    - Too busy caring to notice "defects"
    - Buddhas EVERYWHERE
    - How to grow a Bodhi tree (by accident)
    - A coalition for inclusiveness
    - I want my children not to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but to climb from my shoulders
    - Migraine aura
    - Death stories
    - Greed vs. selfishness
    - I have the GREATEST humility!
    - Women in Zen
    - Comcast
    - Nest
    - 1006 feet square
    - The oboe that did its job


    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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    Hello everyone,

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for November 20th, 2016:

    - Village Zendo
    - Ango
    - Intoxicants
    - Murder She Wrote!
    - Arsenic in cow dung?
    - Ka-ru-pi-su vs. calpico vs. kefir
    - Kombucha
    - So many friends in fermentation
    - Sumatran coffee
    - Kopi luwak coffee (just don't ask where it has BEAN!)
    - Sweet Maria's green beans and a popcorn popper
    - Melodicas and accordions
    - Hayao Miyazaki's sixth "retirement" and "Kemushi no Boro"
    - Adam Savage and "Tested": http://tested.com/
    - Clay Jenkinson and "The Thomas Jefferson Hour": http://jeffersonhour.com/
    - Ajahn Chah - on sitting vs. going to Bangkok
    - US Thanksgiving plans
    - "The Gallery of Regrettable Foods" and "The Aspic Cookbook: A Collection of Unfortunate Atrocities"

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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    Hello everyone,

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for November 27th, 2016:

    - Morning in New Zealand, afternoon in Virginia
    - Sitting in a physical space
    - "Zen and the Art of Archery": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_in_the_Art_of_Archery
    - Martial arts and injury
    - Pain and hospice
    - Snow tire laws in Quebec
    - Distant butterfly wings and the cost of firewood
    - The physics of catalytic converters
    - Low impact exercise ideas
    - The politics of bicycle lanes
    - Two wheels vs. three wheels
    - Gadget Zen
    - Embodied action and the mind
    - iPhone 6, iphone 7
    - Flipboard, Feedly, Facebook, oh my! http://feedly.com/
    - Jundo and the Unitarians
    - Pokemon Go and Ingress
    - Pinky and the Brain
    - Siri said what?
    - Employee health insurance
    - Jukai
    - Wagesa
    - Mothers and sisters

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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    Hello everyone,

    Treeleaf Coffeehouse secretary report for December 4th, 2016:

    - Gabapentin & nerve pain
    - Facet rhizotomy
    - Health insurance
    - Home schooling
    - Ango and committments
    - Tumblr
    - E-prime and other language hacks
    - Linux
    - The Freethought Society
    - Volunteering
    - NAMI
    - The logistics of food banking
    - Ango donations
    - Cognative dissonance
    - Snow!!
    - "Like snow off a dove's back"
    - Flickr
    - Tardive dyskinesia
    - Self-rescuing princesses
    - Hayao Miyazaki and the "Spirited Away 15th Anniversary"
    - iphone 6, iphone 7
    - The verse of atonement (confession optional)
    - All ashes are my ashes
    - "Foot in Mouth Disease"...
    - How many amps?
    - Jukai
    - Wagesa

    Gassho,
    Sekishi

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