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    Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

    Dear Leafers,

    We invite you to join in a short ceremony and a casual discussion on practice and life (and anything really) every Sunday 21:00 swedish time (click on the link to figure out when that is :-) ) at the "Treeleaf Tea Party" via Google+, for Treeleaf Sangha members like you!

    SWEDEN TIME: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc....html?n=239url

    If you want to join, Simply contact Fugen (you will see him around the Forum) with your google+ name.

    Relax, chat with friends, have some tea. Here is a little video by Fugen talking about the Tea Party ... and below is the typical content of the weekly Tea Party:

    (NOTE: THE MEETING IS ON GOOGLE+ EVEN THOUGH FUGEN MENTIONS SKYPE IN THE VIDEO)




    Last edited by Jundo; 09-29-2014 at 01:27 PM.

  2. #2
    Hi all,

    Just a reminder that I'll be subbing for Fugen at the Tea Party today (man, these are big shoes!) which will commence in about a couple hours (3pm EDT). If you want to join in but aren't among those in my Skype list, please send me a PM so we can connect.

    Hope you can stop by, whether it's for 5 minutes or an hour...we'd love to hear you!

    Gassho,
    Dosho

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    Mp
    Guest
    Thank you for the report Dosho and it looks like you filled those big shoes well.

    Gassho
    Michael

  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by ecoist View Post
    Thank you for the report Dosho and it looks like you filled those big shoes well.
    Thank you Michael! And I shall again be filling those shoes, which still seem big but not quite so, tomorrow as Fugen is needed elsewhere. So, again, if anyone wants to join the tea party and are not on my Skype list, please PM your info to me so you can join in the fun (although the beginning is REALLY serious)!

    Hope some folks can make the time to join us, for 5 minutes, 60 minutes, whatever...all are welcome.

    Gassho,
    Dosho

  5. #5
    Hello all,

    Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, August 5th:

    Kesa
    Sitting With Pain
    Relationships
    Teaching Little Ones
    Priest Training
    Nothingness
    Short Tea Parties

    Gassho,
    Dosho
    Last edited by Dosho; 08-06-2012 at 05:08 AM.

  6. #6
    Hello all,

    Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, August 12th:

    Roadkill
    Fake Mars Photo
    Tea Ceremony
    Kensho/Makyo
    Parenting/Grandparenting...for quite awhile!

    Gassho,
    Dosho
    Last edited by Dosho; 08-26-2012 at 01:23 AM.

  7. #7
    Hello all,

    Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, August 19th:

    Technical difficulties
    "Bad" practice
    Self-retreat
    Pirate Baby
    Eido Shimano
    E-Sangha
    Brad Warner
    SFZC
    Ango
    Releasing the Crow
    Vermont
    International Travel
    Kesa Corners

    Gassho,
    Dosho

  8. #8
    Hello all,

    Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, September 2nd:

    Belly Dancing Bells
    Goalless Goals
    Ango
    Tealeaf Treeparty?
    Road Tests
    Cooperatives
    Health Care
    Cappies vs. Commies
    Benign Dictatorships
    Science and bias
    3 Years to Live?

    Gassho,
    Dosho
    Last edited by Dosho; 09-15-2012 at 02:02 AM.

  9. #9
    Hello all,

    Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, September 9th:

    Dogs or Cats?
    Ango
    PPE
    Sewing
    Meal Gatha
    Rohatsu Retreat
    Yoga
    Dharma Names
    What's for dinner? Hamburgers or Pizza?
    Global Service Ideas
    Rowing
    Used Cars

    Gassho,
    Dosho

  10. #10
    Mp
    Guest
    Thanks for the report Dosho.

    Gassho
    Michael

  11. #11
    Pirate Baby? Is that a mis-type, by chance? LOL I'm confused!

    Gassho,

    Lisa

  12. #12
    Yugen
    Guest
    ... the universe always in beta.... wow.... that blew my mind man.....

    Timo and Dosho, I am afraid that I am sufficiently incompetent that I can account for both scenarios.... when I run Firefox I cannot enter hangouts due to plug-in problems. In these instances I have been running Safari and can enter hangouts no problem. The second issue I have been having is just seeing events and hangouts.... they don't show up often in my activity stream. When I have some time I will try to figure it out....

    Deep bows
    Yugen

  13. #13
    Hi.

    Secretetary report for 26/8

    Opportunity to embarass yourself
    Ango
    The importance of interactions
    The difference in tone
    Ango Practice partner Excercises
    The priests of Treeelaf
    Koans
    Sitting
    Kicking friends out
    Dosho No show
    Paperwork
    Relationships

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

  14. #14
    disastermouse
    Guest
    What? Still no notes about the last party? Heh heh! There was a passionate discussion about Workers Cooperatives of all things.

  15. #15
    I'll get that up soon...some of it was a bit over my head, so the notes may not be fully descriptive!

  16. #16
    Hello!
    Can I just check when the tea parties are held please? Shyness has prevented me from joining (& may still!) but I'd quite like to get involved.

    Thanks!

    _/\_

    Ade

  17. #17
    Ade,

    The tea party is at 3pm my time (New York) and 9pm Sweden time, so I believe that would make it 8pm your time. Please correct me if I'm wrong Fugen!

    As for being shy, I can relate. The first two times I was on the call I disconnected without saying anything! But I kept coming back and found a great group of people to talk with about practice and daily life (not two BTW).

    Please come and join us!

    Gassho,
    Dosho

  18. #18
    Thanks Dosho; I'll hopefully see you there!

    _/\_

    Ade

  19. #19
    Hi.

    Infromationwise, here's the link to an posting here on Treeleaf about the Treeeleaf Teaparty ( i know it gets lost in all the other notices and such we have put up there about things happening on Treeleaf, but...)

    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...af-Tea-Parties

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

  20. #20
    Thanks Fugen; I knew this post was somewhere, but I couldn't find it!

    _/\_

    Ade

  21. #21
    I've still got to make it one of these days, and will probably be silent as well
    Thanks,
    Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
    Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

  22. #22
    Hi.

    Secretary report for 21/10

    Kids and dads car
    Chatfunction
    Committment
    Why so much no sho?
    Music
    Zazenkais
    relatives and people
    interreligious interaction
    ceremonies
    forum and cheatsheet
    Funerals

    Thank you for your practice and see you on the teaparty!

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

  23. #23
    Hi all
    Just a heads up that the Teaparty will be starting an hour later for those of us in North America who have yet to Fall back in time

    So thats 4 pm Eastern, 5 pm Atlantic and so on. I believe next week is our time change and all will be back to the regular scheduled time.

    Gassho
    Shohei

  24. #24
    Sorry I missed the fun!

    Gassho,
    Dosho

  25. #25
    Hi.

    Secretary report from 3/2.

    A change in form
    The flu
    Origins of Treeleaf and the Treeleaf teaparty
    Inquisitive persons
    Questioning and religion
    Great doubt
    The burden of reverence
    Outdoors and Weather
    Retiring policedogs and dogs
    Asking questions
    Majoring in...
    Star wars
    Being unsui
    Sewing and zen
    Super bowl
    No expectations
    Treeleaf retreat 2013


    Thank you for your practice.

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

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    Hi.

    Secretaryreport 10/2

    Snow or no snow
    Google+
    Taking the precepts
    Sewing
    Ordination
    Great patience Zen stitchery
    Sitting with people
    Herding cats
    Shootings
    Koans
    Trivial things
    openness
    Old times
    Forums and moderators
    Treeleaf is more than a forum
    Long or short posts
    Changing
    E-sangha and Dharmawheel
    Shooting and chasing
    Kayaking
    Cars
    Sitting with the robes
    Taigu and Jundo

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

  27. #27
    Hi.

    Secretary report of 17/2

    Changes
    Struggling
    The mind and Ego
    An Easy practice?
    The power of sitting with others...
    Finding Teachers and Sangha
    Finding answers
    Taigu's tumble
    A deteriorating mind
    Affectionate upbringing and Games
    Video games
    Philosophers
    Zombie movies
    Monty python
    Comedy shows
    Sci-Fi series
    Star wars/ Star trek/ Battlestar Galactica
    Tv-shows

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

  28. #28
    Hi.

    Secretary report of 24/2 -2013

    Whats new?
    Employment insurance
    K-9
    Getting ordained
    Problems sitting
    What is practice?
    What is a Buddhist?
    Sick kids
    Speaking
    Hard times
    What is zen?
    Internet and technology


    Thank you for your practice

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

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    Hi.

    Secretary report from the 3/3 Treeleaf teaparty.

    Treeleaf teaparty
    Google+
    Practice
    A comfortable path?
    The Danger of internet Forums
    Time


    Thank you for your practice.

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

  30. #30
    Hi.

    Secretary report of 10/3

    Troubles with Google+
    Zazen in daily life
    Sitting
    Still on the wagon
    How long?
    Monetary ways
    Being a priest
    It's all good practice

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

  31. #31
    Thank you Fugen.

    It's always a pleasure to meet new people.

    Gassho,

    Simon

  32. #32
    huh? I was just going to join! It should start at 23:00 Stockholm time, no?

    gassho

    Enkyo

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    21:00 actually...sorry we missed you!

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    Oh well, it's OK. there is alway next time right? See you soon!

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    Hi.

    For those that are curios and wonder about the Treeleaf Teaparty, here's a link to it...

    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...af-Tea-Parties

    And for your information it's every sunday 21.00 (swedish time) and you're always welcome.

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

  36. #36
    Hello Treeleafers

    This is the Tea Part report for Sunday 5 May:

    Practice and life
    Life and practice
    Difference between kesa and robes
    Sewing
    Knitting
    Jukai
    Unsui
    Ordination
    Internet ordination and dharma transmission.
    Talking
    Laughter


    Gassho
    Andy

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    Sundays have been rough a bit rough for me. Keep sending the invites though I'll make it again eventually.

  38. #38
    Hi,

    Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday May 26th.

    Google+ changes
    Facebook
    Posture - facing the wall
    Bodhidharma
    Rinzai & Koans
    Guest teachers
    Book club
    Forum
    Riots in Sweeden

    Gassho,
    Matt

  39. #39
    Yugen
    Guest
    I could not find a way to access the Teaparty hangout today.... G+ changes are frustrating.

    Missed you all - be well.

    Deep bows
    Yugen

  40. #40
    Quote Originally Posted by Yugen View Post
    I could not find a way to access the Teaparty hangout today.... G+ changes are frustrating.
    Did you have problems with the installation/update of the Google Hangout plugin?
    If yes, just let me know - a few weeks ago I had problems to join a Hangout sit (it had worked without any problems in the past). Took me some hours to solve it, maybe I can help you.

    Gassho,

    Timo
    no thing needs to be added

  41. #41
    Timo,

    I'm pretty sure it was the new changes and not anything Yugen was doing wrong...Fugen was having issues as well and it was his Hangout!

    Gassho,
    Dosho

  42. #42
    Quote Originally Posted by Dosho View Post
    Timo,

    I'm pretty sure it was the new changes and not anything Yugen was doing wrong...Fugen was having issues as well and it was his Hangout!

    Gassho,
    Dosho
    Hi Dosho,

    In my case Google+ wanted to have the Hangout plugin re-installed (although it used to work before) all of a sudden, but even after the update it didn't work.
    I found information on the internet that several people had this issue after those infamous Google changes...
    Only deleting the plugin manually, using a registry cleaner, and a new manual installation (i.e. not within the browser) of the plugin helped.

    Google set a typical example of disimproving with its changes in my opinion...
    OK, this is getting off-topic, sorry.

    Gassho,

    Timo
    no thing needs to be added

  43. #43
    Hi.

    i will try that, in my case i got out and reentered it, and suddenly it worked and then not again, but talking with another one One on one, it worked perfectly.

    also, not only was my camera off, i couldnt see the others, and according to g+ it could have been my up/download on the computer, which might be so, but in the end we're aware of the issues, and we'll see what they do about them...

    mtfbwy
    Fugen

    Quote Originally Posted by LimoLama View Post
    Hi Dosho,

    In my case Google+ wanted to have the Hangout plugin re-installed (although it used to work before) all of a sudden, but even after the update it didn't work.
    I found information on the internet that several people had this issue after those infamous Google changes...
    Only deleting the plugin manually, using a registry cleaner, and a new manual installation (i.e. not within the browser) of the plugin helped.

    Google set a typical example of disimproving with its changes in my opinion...
    OK, this is getting off-topic, sorry.

    Gassho,

    Timo
    Last edited by Tb; 05-27-2013 at 08:22 PM.
    Life is our temple and its all good practice
    Blog: http://fugenblog.blogspot.com/

  44. #44
    Hi Guys,

    Is this something new that happened since this past Saturday? The reason is that the system worked fine then, but I want to make sure it is not something that has arisen since that I should resolve before next week.

    Life and Death is just an illusion ... but software glitches are real.

    By the way, ever consider that the whole universe is just software perpetually in "Beta" as the cosmic engineers mess with it at "Godle"? Like the Black Death in the Middle Ages was just a copying error?

    Gassho, J
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

  45. #45
    Quote Originally Posted by Jundo View Post
    Is this something new that happened since this past Saturday?
    Can't tell, I'm afraid. Last time I sat online with Google+ was before Saturday - did not have any problems (any more) at that time.

    Gassho,

    Timo

    PS: Perhaps this was a glitch in the Matrix...
    no thing needs to be added

  46. #46
    Hi all,

    The glitch Timo described is something that has been happening intermittently for months to some people, myself included. I really think it's just one of those things we have to live with and is a good reminder that the world cannot be shaped as we would like it. Perhaps Jundo is right that the Universe is always in Beta...and we're just a bobble sitting on a software engineer's desk somewhere.

    Gassho,
    Dosho

  47. #47
    Mp
    Guest
    Just an FYI ... Since the Google upgrade everything has worked fine on my end, so not sure what is happening there. Hope you can figure it out.

    But that too is the wonderful teaching that technology gives us accepting things as they are ... Welcome to the Dork Zone.

    Gassho
    Shingen

  48. #48
    Mp
    Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Yugen View Post
    ... the universe always in beta.... wow.... that blew my mind man.....

    Timo and Dosho, I am afraid that I am sufficiently incompetent that I can account for both scenarios.... when I run Firefox I cannot enter hangouts due to plug-in problems. In these instances I have been running Safari and can enter hangouts no problem. The second issue I have been having is just seeing events and hangouts.... they don't show up often in my activity stream. When I have some time I will try to figure it out....

    Deep bows
    Yugen
    Hey Yugen,

    Sounds like you are running a Mac ... Me as well. I find that Chrome runs much better then Firefox. I find Firefox very buggy on Mac OS. Give Chrome a try.

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Yugen
    Guest
    I will give it a try Shingen!

    Gassho
    Yugen

  50. #50
    Yeah man, like then maybe the Big Bang was like an operating system install.** Hope the guys at Godgle don't hit reinstall anytime soon, man. (Jundo, spoken from his dorm room). Heck, maybe we are all just characters in some future version of "SimCity" being played by a 12 year old!


    Anyway, when we run into these little "non-problems" and "re-conveniences", it is best perhaps to recall what Zen students in 13th Century Japan or China had to deal with ... like the REAL BLACK PLAGUE! And no electricity at all. Heck, no real dentist or doctors (Dogen died at age 50 from something likely quite treatable now) or internet to complain about the lack of dentists etc.

    Good to keep perspective.

    Gassho, J

    ** Actually kinda half really believe this one if pressed.
    Last edited by Jundo; 05-28-2013 at 02:28 AM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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