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

Please sit with our May 13th-14th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... available to sit any where, any time ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...eekly-Zazenkai

Announcement: Special Zazenkai SUNDAY JUNE 5th with BRAD WARNER ... You are invited to join in ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...th-BRAD-WARNER

Many Heart Sutras (do you know the scholars think it was first written in China?) ... Heart Sutra Chanted in Three Languages ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...hree-Languages

In our Engaged Projects Center ... time to plant ... Alive!!! ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...Alive%21%21%21

Returning to our Koan reflections ... BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 51 ... Hogen's "By Boat or By Land" ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...NIMITY-Case-51

A lovely poem by Kyonin ... A small life ... (and Jiken makes a point too) ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...7-A-small-life

Yugen's Sesshin impressions ... Back from Sesshin and Practice is Life! ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ice-is-Life%21

And in our Art Center ... Buddha touching the Earth part #3 ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...e-Earth-part-3



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.

(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