Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

[Shohei]

Hi folks
For anyone who is interested and able, to Fugen, Hans and I are going to make a commitment to sit every (at least one of us!)Sunday @ 3pm (New York) or 9pm (Tibro, Sweden/Cologne, Germany), 4pm (Fredericton New Brunswick) to share a cup a tea. Please feel free to join in.

We will post below where and how we will be meeting a head of time in this thread as we explore software that will meet our needs.
Here are a couple of ways to meet up (again we will let everyone know ahead of time which we are using)

Only a couple of requirements:
One: please use headphones to prevent echo! (feedbackbackbackbackbakcwhat?what wha...Ha ah aha)
Two: please Say "hey this is [yournamehere]", and then speak freely (to prevent confusion and promote getting better acquainted )

Here are a couple of ways we will be meeting (Get skype if you would, please and PM Fugen with your skype name)

Skype

http://www.videoconference.com/ - We will make the room a head of time and post the url to join (one limit, it hold only 6 @ a time so if we have more folks than that we will move back to voice chat via skype.

Gassho
Shohei/Fugen/Hans! (not 3! )

[Dosho]

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

[Shingen]

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

Gassho
Michael

[Dosho]

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

[Dosho]

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

[Dosho]

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

[Dosho]

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

[Dosho]

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

[Dosho]

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

[Shingen]

Thanks for the report Dosho.

Gassho
Michael

[ZenHarmony]

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

Gassho,

Lisa

[Yugen]

... 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

[Fugen]

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

[disastermouse]

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

[Dosho]

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

[adrianbkelly]

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

[Dosho]

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

[adrianbkelly]

Thanks Dosho; I'll hopefully see you there!

_/\_

Ade

[Fugen]

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

[adrianbkelly]

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

_/\_

Ade

[Kaishin]

I've still got to make it one of these days, and will probably be silent as well

[Fugen]

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

[Shohei]

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

[Dosho]

Sorry I missed the fun!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Fugen]

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

[Fugen]

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

[Fugen]

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

[Fugen]

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

[Fugen]

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

[Fugen]

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

[simon]

Thank you Fugen.

It's always a pleasure to meet new people.

Gassho,

Simon

[Enkyo]

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

gassho

Enkyo

[Dosho]

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

[Enkyo]

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

[Fugen]

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

[Karasu]

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

[chuck13]

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

[MattW]

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

[Yugen]

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

Missed you all - be well.

Deep bows
Yugen

[LimoLama]

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

[Dosho]

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

[LimoLama]

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

[Fugen]

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

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

[Jundo]

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

[LimoLama]

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...

[Dosho]

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

[Shingen]

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

[Shingen]

... 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

[Yugen]

I will give it a try Shingen!

Gassho
Yugen

[Jundo]

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.