I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please sit with our September 22nd-23rd Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai ... featuring a talk on O-Higan, Life and Death, Karma and Rebirth ... some personal and modern views on old ideas ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...eekly-Zazenkai
One can catch the same talk here too ... SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Enter in Spring, Exit in Fall ... welcoming the Autumn ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...g-Exit-in-Fall
Another little talk this week ... how changing the heart can change our experience of the world, and sometimes the world too, in big and small ways ... Sit-A-LONG with JUNDO: CHANGING HEART, CHANGING TIRES ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...CHANGING-TIRES
Another powerful Practice for changing our experience of life, breathing in and out all the world's troubles ... Tonglen Practice Circle meeting #3 ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...rcle-meeting-3
For Angoers and Jukaiees ... PRECEPTS II - the THREE PURE PRECEPTS ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-PURE-PRECEPTS
and ... Ango Practice Partner Exercise #1 ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ner-Exercise-1
Our hearts and our money too ... Big earthquake in Mexico City. / Metta request ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-Metta-request
Some recommended Dharma Audiobooks ... and one or two I do --NOT-- recommend... Dharma Audiobooks ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...rma-Audiobooks
Another sad story of abuse and cultish activity in the Buddhist world ... Inside the dark world of Buddhist teacher Sogyal ... let the seeker beware ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...teacher-Sogyal
A little more information on traditional Japanese customs around O-Higan (the Spring and Fall Equinox) ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-Higan-service
A fellow who makes one ponder the Precept on Non-Violence and nuclear weapons policy ... The Zen Buddhist Nuclear Weapons Expert in Trump's White House ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-s-White-House
For history wonks ... a questions asked from time to time about Taoist influence on early Zen Buddhism ... Way? Yes Way! ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...oist-Influence
In the "wordless" Book Club ... LIVING by VOW: The Meal Chants - pp 119 to 129 ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...r-to-end-of-Ch
Does Zen make us emotional ... or just more sensitive to our emotions? .... a comment from Willow ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post208695
Donations are not required around here, but if somebody wants to donate ... about our system of donation use and oversight ...
http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post208141
Also note:
The new group sitting calendar is up and running ... MANY SITTINGS TO JOIN EACH DAY ... have a peak ...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...GmRaNGoGw/edit
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
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