February 23rd Recommended Threads

I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...

Please sit our February 20th-21st Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai, guided by Kyonin live from Mexico ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...eekly-Zazenkai

Does practice change what we need to be fulfilled human beings? ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...d-human-beings

... my personal reflection on the question ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post149511

How Do We Not Cling to Non-Clinging? ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...o-Non-Clinging

Not to soon to get ready ... Treeleaf 2015 Summer Retreat in Sweden, and one in Maine too ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...Summer-Retreat

Does Zazen help with Attention deficit disorder ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post149409

Introducing Added Talks & Podcasts by Various Soto Zen Teachers ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...o-Zen-Teachers

Where and when can one sit? Any where and when! ... Change of Scenery ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...nge-of-Scenery

We are grateful for our newsletter ... The Leaf. Issue 7 about Gratitude. February 2015
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-February-2015



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

SatToday!