Great to sit with you all, thank you Banto for hosting! Great talk as well. See you all in a few days!!
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH
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Great to sit with you all, thank you Banto for hosting! Great talk as well. See you all in a few days!!
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH
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Sat this part with you all today. Thank you everyone!08:00 – 08:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English ONLY) and Dedication
08:15 – 08:45 ZAZEN
08:45 – 08:55 KINHIN
08:55 – 09:25 ZAZEN + Short Talk
09:25 – 09:30 FOUR VOWS, & VERSE OF ATONEMENT
Thank you, Matt, for sharing a nice group photo
Gassho
Washin
sat/lah
So Great to be with Banto and Jundo in the mile high city. Great! For five years we lived in Greeley about 60 or so miles from Banto, and there is where our daughter was born, and I began my sober life. Last week I celebrated 30 years sober, and it all began in Colorado, such a beautiful place with 14,000 foot peaks, in the shadow of Pike's Peak, and Long's peak. Such a beautiful time and place for Jundo and Banto as I sat with you.
Tai Shi
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Gassho
Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆
Thank you for the zazenkai, guys.
Jundo, the talk hit home for me. Thanks.
Gassho,
Kyonin
Hondō Kyōnin
奔道 協忍
Well what I have decided to do is make a mini-retreat at home, most of it will be parenting as I am home taking care of my kids Mon-Thurs, and then I work on Friday. So I will focus on my practice in my real-life Zendo. =)
But I definitely will be wishing I was there to meet you all!!
Gassho,
Joyo
sat today/lah
Hi Guys,
Evening, 90 minute Zazenkai, with Banto in a few minutes ...
09:00 – 09:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English ONLY) and Dedication
09:15 – 09:45 ZAZEN
09:45 – 09:55 KINHIN
09:55 – 10:25 ZAZEN + Fukanzazengi Recitation
10:25 – 10:30 FOUR VOWS, & VERSE OF ATONEMENT
Gassho, Jundo
SatTodayLAH
ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
Sat the last 45 min or so with you, in hotel room. Thank you!
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH
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Lovely work Banto, thank you both. Sleep well. =)
Gassho
Shingen
SatToday/LAH
Just started my day, sitting with you and the recording.
Thank you!
Gassho,
Kotei sattoday.
義道 冴庭 / Gidō Kotei.
Being a novice priest doesn't mean my writing about the Dharma is more substantial than yours. Actually, it might well be the other way round.
My great thanks and respect for Banto and family, as our train pulls out of Denver station. Yesterday. had the awe inspiring experience of witnessing a bit of Rocky Mountain National Park and its willdlife. Banto and Co. were so generous in all ways. One more wonderful example of the sweet, good hearted, sincere about Zen Practice folks that are our Treeleaf Community.
Gassho Jundo
SATTODAYLAH
ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
Tai Shi that's awesome, small world. Greeley is a great city, indeed really close to here.
Congratulations on 30 years of sobriety!
SatToday/LAH
Banto (aka Rodney)
万磴 (Myriad StoneSteps)
Thank YOU Jundo, what an incredible opportunity this was and thank you dear sangha for everything.
Grateful for Treeleaf
SatToday/LAH
Banto (aka Rodney)
万磴 (Myriad StoneSteps)
It has been suggested by Jundo and almost ordered by my staff to go to Japan in the next few years. I am not one for organized tours, but perhaps we should have a forum topic about members of the Sangha traveling to Japan in small groups. Travel is much better with friends. Instead of Dharmatracks, we would have Sanghatracks.
Marc Connery
明岩
Myo̅ Gan - Bright Cliff
I put the Monkey in Monkeymind
Wow finding it difficult to keep up but managed to sit with the Denver Dharma talk this morning. Thank you Jundo for sharing your experience and all those who supporting you on this trip.
STMIZ
Seishin
精 Sei - Meticulous
神 Shin - Heart
We have room at the house for an invasion of Leafers, if you don't mind futons on the tatami floor. I know, Because my in-laws invade us from time to time.
It can be done.
And you have your own tour guide right here.
Gassho, Jundo
SatTodayLAH
ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
Sounds like something we used to do when I was a kid.
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gassho, Shokai
sat/LAH
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
I'm old enough to remember visiting a few places in the farmland that still had them. They even had certain rules to using them. One story my great uncle had was:
"a farmer had oilmen ask to drill for oil on his farm. After drilling a thousand feet they gave up and told the farmer their workers would fill in the hole, but the frugal farmer told them to just build a new outhouse over the hole. Later the farmer's son comes in yelling that ma had turned blue in the outhouse and passed out. The farmer told the son his mom always did hold her breath until she heard the water splash!"
Gassho
Sat
Lah
Marc Connery
明岩
Myo̅ Gan - Bright Cliff
I put the Monkey in Monkeymind
Thank you Jundo and Banto!09:00 – 09:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English ONLY) and Dedication
09:15 – 09:45 ZAZEN
09:45 – 09:55 KINHIN
09:55 – 10:25 ZAZEN + Fukanzazengi Recitation
10:25 – 10:30 FOUR VOWS, & VERSE OF ATONEMENT
Gassho
Washin
sat today
Been sitting along with you one segment at a time. Dharmatracks rock! Many thanks to all who are taking such good care of Jundo and Leon along the way.
Gassho
Byokan
sat today
Let me say this, yes, let me say just this, I am a poet, just a poet, and with the money I have I make time payments on two computers. To go to Japan is super unlikely, this computer is my traveling companion. Well, we, Marjorie and me, she is my driver, well, we drove to Omaha, from Hartford, South Dakota, down to I 90, on to I 29, then on into Omaha, we sat for an hour that night in our Hotel, Tom, and Chuck, chanting as Tom would have it, then next morning all four of us, the beauty of Zen for four Hours, the Beauty of Zazenkai, as I have never had it in Oh Person, Jundo lead us through our sitting, our walking meditation, our graceful Oriyoki, our cereal, milk, bowl and spoon, carefully placed and oh such gratitude as I have never experienced. Today more than a week has passed, yet, I have experienced beautiful, blue, green, brown, white black, Zen, Rakusu, perfect-Rakusu blessed for Tom to be a good boy, and the rest of us. This came to an end, we hugged four times all around Ruby, Leon, Chris, Marjorie, Mat, Tom, Chuck, and Jundo. At noon, my day was done. We, Marjorie and me, we drove back to Hartford.
Tai Shi
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Gassho
Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆
Looking forward to following events in San Francisco, some difficulties with timezone clashes and all also family commitments. Being pulled from pillar to post as daughter and grandkids are here for summer vacation. So I'll join in events when I can and on demand when I can't.
STMIZ / lah
Seishin
精 Sei - Meticulous
神 Shin - Heart
After a 6 hour drive from San Francisco to north California, a short Zazen with Genmyo (JamesVB) and Genmyo in the coastal town of Eureka!
Tomorrow, gonna sit under some giant Redwoods and Sequoias!
Gassho, Jundo
SatTodayLah
ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
Here is the link for Jundo's talk at Ancient Dragon Zen in Chicago on July 31st
http://audio.ancientdragon.org/20170...s_of_zazen.mp3
Gassho
Sat
Marc Connery
明岩
Myo̅ Gan - Bright Cliff
I put the Monkey in Monkeymind
Just sat with you in Eureka, thanks so much for making this available, especially Jundo after such a long drive. Deep bow of gratitude.
Gassho
Frankie
satwithyoutoday/lah
What a beautiful tree Shingen!
Gassho
Lucy
ST/LAH
Today, after a day looking at the giant redwood trees of northern California, a Zazenkai with James VB. Heart Sutra by James, two Zazen periods with Kinhin, the Verse of Atonement and Four Vows.
Also, a fantastic story of James' work as a steel worker, walking beams on high rise buildings ...
Gassho, J
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ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
A quick Zazen with Shoka, at her house in Tinseltown, and Mina too ... live now ...
Be sure to listen to the closing minutes, and Shoka's professional bee keeping story. I forgot to mention it at the start, and it is something.
Gassho, Jundo
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ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
I just happened to be up late and catch this sit, yay!! Wonderful to sit with Mina finally! And what a good little doggie Shoka has I will definitely bow and chant for my honey, should it go "seventy two labors" or "seventy two stingers!?"
Gassho
Jakuden
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Be sure to listen to the closing minutes, and Shoka's professional bee keeping story. I forgot to mention it at the start, and it is something.
See you soon, Doshin.
Gassho, Jundo
SatTodayLAH
ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
Thank you Jundo, Mina, and Shoka ... wonderful sit. =)
And yes Jundo, you are the Queen Bee!
Gassho
Shingen
SatToday/LAH
So good to be part of the Sit with Shoka, and "Bee Keeping." Best to all as travels continue. All sounds so good, I was born in Ventura, lived the first 5 years of my life in Ojai, southern California. Take care all of you!
Tai Shi
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Gassho
Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆