July 11th Recommended Threads

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

Please sit when and wherever with our weekly and monthly Treeleaf Zazenkai ... even now ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...ENKAI-NETCASTS

We begin Okumura Roshi's masterful intoduction to Master Dogen ... Realizing Genjokoan ... in the Treeleaf 'wordless' book club ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...EAF-ART-CIRCLE

Also, two more simple lessons in Simple Living ... Coffee care, and the lost art of penmanship ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...ractice-Circle

Oodles of noodles of creativity in our Art Circle ... Zen of Creativity Chapter 3 & 4 discussion and prompts ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...on-and-prompts

lfthis issue touches your heart, Hoseki introduces a place to act ... Protesting the immigrant internment campers in the US. A call to Buddhists! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...o-Buddhists%21

How to look at Ikkyū Sōjun ... Zen iconoclast offering a "Teaching" ... or just an old horndog who liked the bottle? (My view has changed recently) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...%AB-S%C5%8Djun

For our upcoming Jukai and Ango season ... Looking For Volunteers: Experienced Ango-Jukai Friends ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Jukai-Friends



Reminder ... Especially for newer folks ... FEELING LOST AROUND THE COMMUNITY? Contact our "Sangha Buddhies" ... friends to help people find their way around ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...angha-Buddhies




And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ... A TREELEAF EXPERIMENT with EVERYONE’S PARTICIPATION REQUESTED: “LAH” (Lend A Hand)
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...Lend-A-Hand%29

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I am so glad if this place and the practice are benefiting you. If so, you might consider a DONATION to Treeleaf at this LINK, although there is absolutely no need or requirement to do so. Thank you.



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.

(BUT 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 DURING THE LAST DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ore-Forum-Chat

Gassho, Jundo

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