I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Never too late to sit our August 26th-27th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...eekly-Zazenkai
A Koan for folks always searching for the next book or teacher ... BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 64 ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...NIMITY-Case-64
Or the right Suttas and Sutras ... or thinking about burning them all ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...tas-and-Sutras
Learning to appreciate the "mind theatre" and not buy into all it's games ... "Dealing with Difficult Emotions" ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post183907
What to get the man who has everything? ... What I "got" from zazen ....
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...got-from-zazen
All Harmful Words Thoughts and Acts ... Why do repentance for thoughts? ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...e-for-thoughts
Say what you can to be helpful ... Silence or (maybe) misleading compassion? ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ing-compassion
And if you have some extra time(s) and no time to kill ... A nice little article about no time ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-about-no-time
And there is still time! ... ANNOUNCEMENTS POSTED:
It's JUKAI TIME .... 2016!
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...I-TIME-2016%21
Treeleaf 'ANGO' (The 90 Days) --2016--
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...0-Days%29-2016
Rakusu sew-a-long (2016)
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ong-%282016%29
I am so glad if this place and the practice are benefiting you. If so, you might consider a DONATION to Treeleaf at this LINK, although there is absolutely no need or requirement to do so. Thank you.
A Re-MINDer on SIMPLICITY:
In a Zen Monastery, SILENCE or A FEW WISE WORDS are cherished over MANY WORDS. Thus, I advise folks to restrain the need to speak unless the heart truly calls. If you find yourself posting many times each day, maybe consider what truly needs to be said ... and when it is best just to answer with silence and an inner Gassho.
SILENCE OR A FEW HESITANT WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT OFTEN SPEAK MOST PROFOUNDLY. Post when it is truly important to you and needs to be spoken from the warm heart.
(too much silence or shyness can also be excessive ... so take the Middle Way!)
Also, to those who may get lost among the many threads and conversations in our Forum, please think of a monastery made of wood or brick, with 100 monks holding 10,000 conversations in the hallways, kitchen, Abbot's rooms and library (I assume no chatting in the Zendo where people sit Zazen).
Would you need or want to hear or join in all or most conversations? Of course not! You would, at best, pick and choose the conversations relevant and helpful to you.
So here too in our Sangha, NO NEED TO READ EVERY CONVERSATION: Try to note the ones that seem helpful to your Practice or interests, leave the rest. The above threads are a few suggestions.
Oh, and we do ask folks to note that they have SAT ZAZEN THE PREVIOUS DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ore-Forum-Chat
Gassho, Jundo
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