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  1. #251

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    That was excellent! :mrgreen:
    You should have heard YangHsin flipping out on the phone... he was sure Treeleaf was over! :lol:
    He told me something very nice, he said: "I was just getting comfortable in this Sangha, I was starting to feel at home in that Sangha... Why is it over?"... Very cute but also very funny 'cause I knew Jundo was a prank specialist! :twisted:

    Have a very nice day everyone!
    deep gassho,
    Jinyu

  2. #252

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    You're insane Jundo. :-) Although I did really dig the fauxhawk!

    Gassho

    Dokan

    PS - Up on podcast

    Sent from my GT-P1000 using Tapatalk

  3. #253

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Thank you Jundo, though funny it has quite some important core teaching in it, I think. I just feel it also has a bit of taste like "We're doing it right, while TNH and HHDL are not the real buddhism", which I think is not the case, they are just a different flavour. But probably I'm just over sensitive here.
    Gassho
    Myoku

  4. #254

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Quote Originally Posted by Myoku
    Thank you Jundo, though funny it has quite some important core teaching in it, I think. I just feel it also has a bit of taste like "We're doing it right, while TNH and HHDL are not the real buddhism", which I think is not the case, they are just a different flavour. But probably I'm just over sensitive here.
    Gassho
    Myoku
    I think TNH and HHDL would laugh along with us and I'll tell you why. Even though they are great teachers (TNH's Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha is one of my alltime favorites) they are ordinary human beings who practice accepting reality and the pain and suffering that appears and what to do with it. Viewing themselves as such (not as famous teachers) how could one not laugh at and with Jundo in his end of treeleaf performance. You are right - they are a different flavor but ice cream is ice cream and I didn't get the feeling that we are right and they are wrong.

  5. #255

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    I really enjoyed this one. Thank you for making it.

  6. #256

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    AWESOMESAUCE! Count me in... i do believe this sums up my commitment to the New and improved treeleaf in just 6 words!


  7. #257

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Dig the haircut...that at least you can keep!!

    Thanks for the giggle :lol:

  8. #258

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    the buddha said; don't be hatin';

    that was one of many smiles

  9. #259

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Jundo,

    Based on what I've just seen I can no longer in good conscience continue on the path to shukke tokudo. I'm sorry but I just don't agree with this new direction for Treeleaf...

    ...unless I get a cut of the casino profits...then, I'm good. :twisted:

    Gassho,
    Dosho

    P.S. I'll only agree if the actual casino is built with actual LEGOS...if not, no deal.

  10. #260
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    DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    I'm mildly concerned about the long term effects of this Zazen thing...:-D

    Ron


    Shugen

  11. #261

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Thank you Jundo, I just love the look of wonder on Sa-chan's face when the zen master, stripped of his epic-uber-dude-i-ness rings the bell for the commencement of zazen. Fear not, Punch & Judy have nothing on TNH and HHDL !!!

    Seriously tho, I was secretly hoping you'd let us all come back as goats!
    oh heck; sheep, goats. What's the difference; shall we sit with that??

  12. #262

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Too funny! Loved it and the baby is so cute!

    Gassho,
    Ekai

  13. #263

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Any time I listen to the Dalai Lama speak from here on, I'll hear it in Jundo's "Dalai Lama" voice.

    _/_
    Jigetsu

  14. #264

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Also, +1 to Jundo with a mohawk.

  15. #265

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Umm jundo stay off the drugs.

    I was very happy at the end to hear that this was going to remain"boring ole treeleaf" because our minds are entertaining enough without all the extra stuff to sell za zen! Thanks very much for the talk.

    Gassho

  16. #266

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Finally! A place where I can go burn money on a casino and then do some zazen to fight the guilt!

    This is genius, Jundo! I'm in!

    Thanks for the laughs.

  17. #267

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    :lol:

  18. #268
    Mp
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    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Fantastic performance Jundo ...

    I loved the hat ... makes the whole image perfect.

    Thanks for the great share.

    Gassho

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    Suzy
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    Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

    Gassho, having a little non difficulty viewing the sitalongs.
    Awaiting your counsel .
    Many blessings,
    Suzy, Suzan with Zazen always

  20. #270
    Mp
    Guest

    Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

    Wonderful talk Jundo ... thank you for this. You always do provide a clear understanding.

    Gassho,
    Michael

    P.S. Congrats on the new equipment and a deep bow to the generous soul who provided it.

  21. #271

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Dear Jundo

    Brilliant talk. Made me laugh out loud but you certainly made your point
    Gassho

    Thane

  22. #272

    Re: DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!

    Quote Originally Posted by Thane
    Dear Jundo

    Brilliant talk. Made me laugh out loud but you certainly made your point
    Gassho

    Thane
    I am glad, but just don't confuse this posting with the following!

    Quote Originally Posted by Jundo


    Our TREELEAF SANGHA FORUM & WEBSITE WILL BE CLOSED and UNAVAILABLE from around JUNE 11th to allow for a software upgrade, data move and the installation of new features upon OUR REBIRTH A FEW DAYS (probably 3 to 5 days) LATER!

    And there is a very good reason:

    The work is intended to make our Sangha more "user-non-user friendly", improve accessibility, availability of resources, mutual communication and understanding for both new members and old hands. We hope that these select changes, additions and software upgrades will make all our Sangha folks feel even more at home in this community, and make Treeleaf an even more welcoming, simpler to navigate and effective place for Zen Practice. Some of the changes and additions will be available immediately or soon after we "come back on the air". Other additions and new features will be phased in over the days and weeks thereafter. We will introduce the new features as they "come online", but we are sure most of you will like them and will find them helpful, envigorating to your Zen Practice, and often just plain "COOL!" 8)

    SO, LET'S CONSIDER THOSE FEW DAYS AWAY A KIND OF 'SILENT RETREAT' AROUND HERE! :wink:

    Taigu and I wish to thank the people who have been working so hard for weeks and months on this ... tirelessly and selflessly through often long hours, donating their professional skills and expertise ... locating, mastering and installing the new software, designing and redesigning the user interfaces, solving 1001 technical problems that came up along the way, especially Chris (ChristhatisChris), Morelos (Kyonin/Choco), Dokan and Shohei. I would also like to thank the other folks who have been involved in several accompanying projects happening as part of these changes, especially Yugen who is involved in so many things, Willow and the rest of the members of the "Engaged and Charitable Projects Committee", the "TREELEAF 2.0 Committee" and "Sticky Committee", and our novice priests Mongen the film maker, Fugen, Shinkai, Myozan and Dosho who were involved all through providing input.

    THANK YOU! LET'S CELEBRATE THE COMING OF ....

    ... our TREELEAF 2.0 ... a small step on the road to the 3-D Holographic Zen Hall that I expect we will someday soon be!

    viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3343
    [*] I will be reposting this notice several times in the coming days!

    Gassho, Jundo (and Taigu too)

  23. #273

    SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Announcing the GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICE

    We are pleased to announce our GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICE initiative here at Treeleaf. Starting in a few weeks, we will be asking each and all of our Treeleaf folks, in some way, to spend a day making their communities, the lives of others, this world a bit better. This is a chance to live the Virtues of Generosity and Giving, and our Bodhisattva Vows to Aid All Sentient Beings.

    Please look for additional information, and ideas for activities suitable for you, in the ENGAGED & CHARITABLE PROJECTS CENTER of our forum. There, we hope to develop a variety of charitable and socially engaged projects and practices seeking to aid and assist our fellow sentient beings in this world. Please join in and do your part.

    In fact, this is the "donation" we ask of you for participating in Treeleaf. Our Sangha is Freeing, but not Free ... and though we do not ask for money for our activities here, we do ask EVERYONE to roll up their sleeves and do something to help those truly in need. Thus, I am going to ask every single person sitting in our Sangha, without exception, to join in this. I hope other Buddhists and Buddhist groups ... anyone in fact ... will join with us on this project. This is not simply a matter of writing a check (though that is good too), but rather we will request "hands on" work of some kind taking a day or much of a day. Include the whole family and make it a family event! No one type of activity will be required, although some activity is required of you, and there will be an activity suitable for each and all of you to choose, something for everyone despite busy schedules or physical limitations. There is always a way to help.

    Please see this thread by Yugen for further information ...

    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-Initiative%21

    And a bit more on this from me ...



    Thank you for coming together on this Initiative to Serve!

    Gassho, Jundo
    Last edited by Jundo; 07-15-2012 at 01:11 AM.
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  24. #274
    Thank you Jundo. Really excited about this initiative!

    Gassho,

    Dokan

    PS - Up on podcast now.
    We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
    ~Anaïs Nin

  25. #275
    Mp
    Guest
    Thank you for this Jundo and I look forward to doing my part and helping members within my community. I am an active volunteer for the Comox Valley Boys & Girls Club ... I help in transporting kids to and from events, setting up events, fund raising, or really anything they need. To me, I find it to be an amazing reward to help put a smile on a child's face.

    Gassho
    Michael

  26. #276
    Thank you, Jundo!

    It's an honor to be part of Treeleaf.
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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  28. #278
    Treeleaf Engineer Seimyo's Avatar
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    Thank you Jundo for the great kick-off.
    Like all of you, I'm very excited to see what we can do as a Sangha, and honored to be doing it with you.

    Gassho.
    Chris

  29. #279
    Yugen
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    Thanks for a great talk Jundo - I am really excited for this initiative!

    Gassho
    Yugen

  30. #280
    I posted this on the other thread, good to repeat here ...

    Just to be clear, "hands on" volunteer and community activities that people are already otherwise undertaking can be included as the Day of Service. All the better if the "day of service" is something folks are already undertaking regularly, not just on one day!

    And, yes, our suggested activities will include many options for even the homebound, shy or bedbound who cannot get outside

    Gassho, J
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

  31. #281
    Excited to serve. It is a great honor to help people.

    Daido

  32. #282
    Hi,
    Good to encourage the practice out there in the world.
    Gassho
    Myozan

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  34. #284
    it looks really, really great!

    Gassho,
    Marek

  35. #285
    Looking forward to this very much! My family and I have been looking into activities in our area for weeks now. Excited to get started with all of you.



    Kelly/Jinmei

  36. #286
    Love it!!!!

    Gassho,
    Hoyu
    Ho (Dharma)
    Yu (Hot Water)

  37. #287
    Looking forward to the day of service!

    Gassho,
    Ekai

  38. #288


    may every day be a day of service...
    ~Gassho~
    Shinko

  39. #289
    Sounds great! _/\_
    Thanks,
    Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
    Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

  40. #290
    Great idea, thank you for this

    Gassho
    Thank you for your practice

  41. #291
    Hello,

    thank you Jundo for the announcement and thank you fellow Sangha members for your enthusiasm.

    All the best and Gassho,

    Hans Chudo Mongen

  42. #292
    Thanks Jundo

    I look forward to it.

    Gassho

    Thane

  43. #293
    Very good idea! I'm going to find it out, what kind of activity is appropriate for me.

    Gassho
    Bianca
    Gassho,
    Bianca

  44. #294
    This is a great idea. I think I already know what I'm going to do.

  45. #295

    SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: The Start of Jukai & Our Treeleaf 'Global Day of Service'

    Today is an auspicious day for our Sangha, as we start our study and reflections on each of the Precepts in preparation for our next Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts) Ceremony in January. Together with that, our Jukai-ers each began hand sewing a Rakusu (small Buddhist robe) this past week, a wonderful practice in which one sews diligently stitch-by-stitch, but without thought of achievement. All is hand-in-hand with Zazen. Once again, our January Ceremony will be all-online, with folks simultaneously participating and receiving the Precepts in several countries and time zones. Here was our last ceremony ...

    TREELEAF JANUARY 2012 JUKAI

    If anyone is interested in undertaking Jukai, there is still time to jump in ... so please join through our forum.

    TREELEAF SANGHA COMMUNITY FORUM

    Today also marks the start of our Sangha's GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICE, in which we ask each and all of our Treeleaf Sangha members, for one day sometime during the period September 15-29, to spend a full day making their local communities, the lives of others, and this world a bit better. This is a chance to live the Virtues of Generosity and Giving, and our Bodhisattva Vows to Aid All Sentient Beings. We hope you will join in with us, and perhaps make it a family event for you to work together with your loved ones. More information here ...

    GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICE

    Folks have been very creative in thinking up ideas for service projects, some even from home for those who are housebound. Here are some examples ...

    I pretty much have to work out of my home, so I will be knitting warm winter scarves to donate to our local Senior Center Thrift Shop. Also will look into telephone work for our wonderful, free spay & neuter clinic for the pets of low income people & seniors.

    I will be taking my eight-year-old son out on a day-long island clean-up ... I really want to share with my son our most basic and important teaching - our connectedness to all sentient beings - trees, mountains, oceans, people, animals. We are all responsible for one another.

    I am going to get involved with the local hospital and hospice to bring [our dog] Bodhi in to share the experience of just being in the moment with that cute little fur ball.

    We have an alternative high school ... The students at this school haven't been successful in traditional classrooms and many already have criminal records and broken homes, so this school is designed to meet the special needs of these teens. Several years ago, I played a bit of chess and during that time I got to know a gentlemen who had created an organization that uses chess, martial arts and hip-hop music to illustrate the power that our decisions have. So to tie the whole thing together I'm in the process of implementing a chess program at the high school that will be followed-up some time in October or November by an on-site chess tournament put on by the Hip Hop Chess Federation. My goal is to get chess into the classrooms on a daily basis at our alternative high school.

    I'm thinking of volunteering to teach some basic yoga poses (for free) for our local community. ... Also, for this saturday we're going to relaunch the reading program that I helped start two years ago [at a school here in the Philippines]. ... We're also gonna be planting in the school's vegetable patch by the end of the month. Hopefully, the harvest will be enough to supplement the feeding program.

    These days I teach English to kids whose parent's can't afford an English School. My English is not perfect, but passing on what I know is better than not speak English at all.

    I am planning on spending more time at my local hardware co-op. We take in old computers, refurbish what we can, responsibly recycle what we can't, and give computers to non-profits, the under privileged, and volunteers.

    ... and many more creative ideas. Of course, all volunteering and giving is to be undertaken for no personal benefit or credit, simply with awareness that the giver, gift, giving and recipients are one.

    More here ...

    Last edited by Jundo; 09-15-2012 at 03:44 AM.
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  46. #296
    Mp
    Guest
    This is wonderful Jundo, thank you. I have to admit I am very excited about this ... ideas are dancing around in my head.

    Gassho
    Michael

    Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

  47. #297
    Thank you,
    Gassho
    Myoku

  48. #298
    Wonderful kick off!

    Yes, lets bring out peace and stillness to the world.

    Thank you for this opportunity, Jundo.

    And thank you all participating.

    Gassho,

    Kyonin
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

  49. #299
    The time for talk is over! Time for action.

    Gassho

    Daido

  50. #300

    SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Even Buddhas Get the Blues

    Taigu, our other Teacher here at Treeleaf, posted this week that he was going through some HARD TIMES at home and work, feeling stress and the blues from his job. Taigu recounted a story about the great Tibetan Teacher Chogyam Trungpa who, according to detailed accounts by his wife, suffered from frequent bouts of depression so severe that Trungpa was sometimes pushed to the point of considering suicide. (page 27 to 29 here) Taigu was talking about a little blues in his own case, not anything like Trungpa. Even so, some folks contacted me privately this week expressing surprise, believing that Buddhist Teachers should be beyond the blues and all stresses of life, perpetually in a realm of all encompassing bliss and tranquility. After all, isn't that the point of ENLIGHTENMENT?

    Well, what may startle some folks is that Enlightenment does allow one to be totally beyond the blues and all stresses of life, free of loss and longing and sickness and aging and death ... even right in, as and amid days of sadness, times of stress, loss and longing, sickness and aging and death. BOTH VIEWS AND THE VIEWLESS, AT ONCE AS ONE. Oh, one should not be a prisoner of extremes ... falling into anger and violence, excess longing and greed, life halting depression and thoughts of suicide, destructive panic, uncontrolled regret and other harmful extremes of thought and emotions. However, the full range of moderate, healthy emotions ... life's normal ups and downs ... are what life is about and are not to be fled. Heck, any human being can even suffer depression or some other human weakness for a period. At the same time, right in the ups and downs, this Buddhist Way allows us to simultaneously taste a way of being thoroughly transcending up and down ... all at once. Strange as it may sound, one may sing and feel the blues ... and be beyond the blues ... at once.

    Perhaps the very concept of "Enlightenment", and the point of this Buddhist enterprise, has evolved over the centuries ... into something far more subtle and powerful than even the early interpretations of long ago. You see, originally, the goal of early Buddhism might actually be best described as total escape from this world which is seen as a realm of suffering. Family, home and ordinary life were to be left behind on a path of cooling and abandoning human emotions and human ties. This life, the possibility of rebirth, was not looked upon as something positive to be lived, but as something to be fled. The goal was halting the endless chain of birth and death and rebirth.

    Next, a concept of "Buddhahood" developed in which a Buddha or other Enlightened Master might be beyond all human attachments, sadness, fear, regret, longing, and all the rest even in this life. This is still perhaps the most widely held image of "the point of Buddhist Practice" that most Buddhist folks are to aim for. Old Buddhist Sutras, myths and hagiographic histories, painting exaggerated portraits of our long dead heroes, contribute to the image by stripping such saints and supermen of every human weakness or failing, thus building an idealized legend.

    But with the passing centuries, a much more subtle viewless view of "Enlightenment" developed, and this is perhaps the most powerful of all. For in this "Enlightenment", one could live fully this up and down life, with family and household responsibilities and work and all the pains of normal life, the rainy days and sunny ... feeling it all ... yet simultaneously, thoroughly free of it all. Amid sadness, feeling sadness yet simultaneously embodying that Joy that sweeps in both small human happiness and sadness. Knowing birth and death, the travails of aging and passing time ... yet simultaneously free of birth and death and time. Oh sure, one still needed to avoid the extremes and perils of harmful emotions such as excess greed, anger and all the other chains of the runaway mind ... but in so doing, the result is a kind of "Buddha cake and eat it too" view of an enlightened life amid Samsara. Yes, the Buddha DOES TOTALLY ESCAPE from the world and the prison of Samsara ... right here amid the prison of Samara, right at the heart of the sometimes hard and stressful times of human life. There is a Peace, Beauty and Wholeness that holds all the broken pieces, both the beautiful and oh so ugly, the simple pleasures and unavoidable pains, of this complex world.

    If you ask me, that is the most powerful view of Enlightenment, allowing Peace and Joy right amid a full, rich and balanced life, freedom from birth and death while born and growing old and someday dying. I would not trade it for any other Enlightenment even if all the Buddhas and Ancestors were to appear before me and point elsewhere. Anyway, in my heart, I do not believe they would.

    Last edited by Jundo; 01-30-2013 at 04:47 AM.
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