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

Please sit with our September 15th-16th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... featuring the Cерце Cутра! ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...80%D0%B0%21%29

Jukai and Ango continues ... with posting of our first Precept readings ... PRECEPTS I - JUKAI and THE THREE REFUGES ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-THREE-REFUGES

... and other action in our Ango Practice Partner and Rakusu Sewing Circle groups ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/forum...glen-Too%21%29

And all Angoers ... please find time to listen to A SPECIAL TALK to COMMENCE 'ANGO' SEASON ... available in video or audio podcast ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...CE-ANGO-SEASON

... audio only ...

http://treeleaf.podbean.com/e/septem...e-ango-season/

Another thread on Rebirth is born ... this topic always coming back, again and again ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...?15606-Rebirth

BUMP: Seeking Zazen Hangout Host Volunteers - Would You Host A Weekly Zazen Sitting? ... and please confirm if already on the list ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-Zazen-Sitting

Is sex and the body something to be run from ... or something to be honored? ... The True Nature of the Body ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...re-of-the-Body

A question on alertness during sitting ... perhaps a bit too alert to being alert ... How much intensity? ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post206865

Buddhists worldwide should not lose sight of this terrible situation ... ethnic cleansing of Muslim minorities in Burma ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post206388

Is Ango and Jukai possible when Sitting with disease ?? ... YES!!! ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...g-with-disease

Some advice for folks Quitting smoking ... whether for Ango or otherwise ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...itting-smoking

Shokai advices ... Be Joyful for forty days (and forty nights) ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...orty-nights%29

More Buddhist Robots ... Buddhots ... Of Buddhabots and Dharmadroids ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post206724

Announcements: Treeleaf Art Circle Moving / New "Japanese Language Learners" Area ... join the fun ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-Learners-Area



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!)

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

SatTodayLAH