Sharing Helpful and Insightful Tips (was The Tea Party)

[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

[Dosho]

Hello all,

Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, October 7th:

Ango
Failure
Achieving Goals
Renewing Commitments
PPEs
Animal Suffering
Cancer
Posts on the Forum: Overwhelming?
Jundo: Night Owl
Who's Who on G+ Zazenkai?
Sitting Group
Interfaith Groups
Sewing Circle

Gassho,
Dosho

[Jundo]

Jundo: Night Owl

Hah! The life of a Japanese translator. The best time to get any work done is after everyone else is in bed!

Gassho, J

[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]

Hello all,

Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, October 28th:

Swearing
All Good Practice
Genus or Genius?
Frankenstorm
Darth Vader & Son
Waking Up
Halloween Costumes
Sci-Fi Conventions
3,000 Calories
iPads
Inspiration Thread
Loud Keyboards
Politics...Lots of Politics

Gassho,
Dosho

[Dosho]

Hello all,

Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, November 25th:

RetreatFunerals
Forum Posts
Rakusus and Kesas
Buddhist Holidays
Wrapping Your Head Around It
Buddhist Cops

Gassho,
Dosho

[Dosho]

Hello all,

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

Star Trek
The Picard Maneuver
Gratitude
Bowing in Humility
Sitting Zazen in Public
Family
Waking Up...
...And Falling Asleep
Asking Questions

Gassho,
Dosho

[Fugen]

Hi.


Here's the secretary report from the first Treeleaf teaparty on Google +.

Live and Helicoptering/hoovering/staying afloat?
A sick child
Google+
Ordination
The dark side
Treeleaf T-shirts
A Treeleaf Calender?
Books
The white rabbit
Music
Dancepoles
Workings of the press
Treeleaf 2013 augustretreat
Treeleaf bookclub
Telephones and the new deal


Thank you for your practice.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Fugen]

Hi.

Secretary report from 27/1-13



Google+
Kesa
Sittings
Three mile island
Zen jokes
Chanting
2013 Retreat
Robes
Treeleaf newsletter
mystery men
Unsui videos
Nanao sakaki
chanting to Trees
A good job?
Canoes vs kayaks
technology
Difference in practice
Scholastic knowledge
Its all good practice
Cats

Thank you for your practice.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[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

[Dosho]

Hello all,

Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, March 17th:

Being under the weather
Sesame Street Live
Can't come back if you're dead
Aging parents
Raising children
Worried about penises
Overintellectualizing
Overwhelmed by the forum
Book clubs
August retreat
Zen masters facing death
Snow ending soon?

Gassho,
Dosho

[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

[Dosho]

Hello all,

Here is the Tea Party report for Sunday, April 7th:

Bringing Mom home
Archeology in the cities
Getting people connected
Heart Sutra
Lost in translation
Subtitles
The Muppets
New people
Treeleaf as an innovator
Ordination and dharma transmission
Soto in the West
Lifelong learning
Trust/Obediance to the teacher

Gassho,
Dosho

[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

[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

[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.

[Dosho]

Hello all,

Here is the Tea Party Report for Sunday, June 2nd:

Retreat!
Road Trips
Sits in Virginia
Gaming
Changes in Schools
Acceptable Alcohol
Getting Written-Up
Welshmen
Xbox One S*#ks!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Dosho]

Hello all,

Here is the Tea Party Report for Sunday, June 9th:

Sitting in Mixed Traditions
Coffee
Spicy Food
Potatoes
Tea
Newly Minted Unsui
Star Trek
Evil vs. Suffering
Hitler
European Austerity
Commodore 64s

Gassho,
Dosho

[Karasu]

Just checking in with the Tea Party report for this evening, 16/6/13

Koun Franz tonight
Brad Warner and a Swede
Rakusu sewing
Gender equality
Meditation timing and apps
Teaching meditation to children
Corporal punishment
Racism and immigration
Social services and welfare
Gun control issues
Star Trek 2 and short skirts
Pimping congressmen
Midi-chlorians
JJ Abrams
Jundo bringing balance to the force
US retreat in August
Buddhist boot camp


Thank you all for the conversation

Gassho
Andy

[Amelia]

Wish I could have been there for the "Star Trek" discussion..

[Dosho]

Thank happens just about every week Amelia...very geeky topics aside from buddhism and zen...suppose those are a bit geeky too!

Please come join is sometime!

Gassho,
Dosho

Wish I could have been there for the "Star Trek" discussion..

[Amelia]

I wonder why I can't seem to make it. I will put more effort into making some time on Sundays.