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    February 23rd recommended threads

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

    Please sit our February 21-22nd, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai (HOSTED BY KYONIN, LIVE FROM MEXICO!) ...
    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...M-MEXICO%21%29

    The Dalai Lama speaks of "How to Achieve Happiness", but what does that really mean? ...
    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post123012

    BuddhaaaaaaAHHHHCHOOOOOO! ... Buddha's Runny Nose ... waxing how even an annoying itchy nose is "Buddha" when known as such, yet we best take our allergy meds ...
    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...a-s-Runny-Nose

    Bro. Brad on the Big Non-Payoff ... Dogen’s Circle of the Way ...
    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...cle-of-the-Way

    Can a Zen fellow have big goals and ambitions? ... Sure! But depends how ...
    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post122994

    BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 35 ...
    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...NIMITY-Case-35


    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.

    Gassho, Jundo
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Let me add mention of this thread ... some amazing sewing by Taigu, Practice like rain ...

    Here are two pics of the Okesa being sewn in the nyohoe style with rain stitches. It sits in a garden if Kyoto as I was teaching today in the French Institute.
    Doing this is like being on an endless retreat and I ll have to see at laest two hours everyday until August to complete it.
    I can understand why Sawaki Kodo liked it so much.
    Funzoe the latest news
    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...he-latest-news
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Hello Jundo,

    Refused access. How may I earn the privilege. Thank you.


    Gassho,
    Myosha
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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    Oh, sorry, I did not recall that the Kesa sewing circle is only for the actual sewers. Anyway, here is a picture of Taigu's amazing needlework ...

    Last edited by Jundo; 02-24-2014 at 04:32 PM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Also, this nice talk from Fugen is on thin ice ...

    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...097#post123097
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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