June 20th Recommended Threads
I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please sit our Zazenkais from the Wild West, USA ...
A Special Shinshi Zazenkai, Live from a Barn in New Mexico!
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-New-Mexico%21
Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - "2nd Shot" Zazenkai
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Shot-Zazenkai
Our other daily and weekly sittings are here too:
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...TTING-NETCASTS
My late Teacher's obituary, now several years yet still true today ... Eight Ways GUDO WAFU NISHIJIMA Will Help Change ZEN BUDDHISM ... (thanks, Oleg, for finding it) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...e-ZEN-BUDDHISM
An essay of mine was published in Tricycle ... although I did not pick the "steppy" title! :p ... Four Steps You May Be Overlooking in Your Zazen Practice ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Zazen-Practice
Ippo dives back into our 'Buddha Basics' series ... Buddha-Basics (Part V) — Aspiring Right ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Aspiring-Right
Pain as a motivator ... All Good Zazen ... even when flat on one's back moaning ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post286013
Several interesting questions from a new Leafer in Turkey ... I need your advice ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ed-your-advice
... also ...
Why Japanese monks and nuns get marry? ... a question to ask my wife! :encouragement: ....
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...nuns-get-marry
Dhammapada and My Sexuality !
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Sexuality-%21
A good thread about trying to do good ... Shoaku Makusa- On 'Refrain from all evil whatsoever' ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...vil-whatsoever
Our anniversary continues ... Spotlight #5 - Sit Leaders - Celebrating Treeleaf's 15th ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...reeleaf-s-15th
Perhaps for some, if sometimes and in moderation ... but for others NEVER at all ... Alcohol and drugs ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ohol-and-drugs
Thinking-non-Thinking ... Hishiryo ... and Fushiryo too ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...18880-Hishiryo
Leon and my American adventures continue ... No-Fear No-Loathing in Las Vegas: Jundo & Leon 'Hit the Strip' - Travel Diary ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...p-Travel-Diary
There is TONGLEN ... any time ... any place ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE
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
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!)
As well, 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
SatTodayLAH
