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

Please sit with a weekly Treeleaf Zazenkai ... any place and any time ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...ENKAI-NETCASTS

Next week, we will have a 90 minute Zazenkai on Friday, then a special guest Saturday ... come sit with author/activist/Zen teacher SUSAN MOON ... good seats still available! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...her-SUSAN-MOON

A special thought and word for our priest Shugen ... who is with his family as refugees from fire in California today ... they don't know about their house ... likewise others around the world ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ord-for-Shugen

An old post on a different kind of fire which burns ... Anger ... Playing with Fire ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ying-With-Fire

Buddhism Plain and Simple? ... when we say "make me one with everything," we mean it ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post226673

Overthinking thinking ... Thoughts on Thoughts ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ts-on-Thoughts

Can one be attached to feeling peaceful and good in Zazen, or to Zazen itself ... Attachment to zazen? ... in fact, Zazen is the Ultimate Attachment Non-Attachment! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...hment-to-zazen

Can money buy happiness? ... (once basic needs are met) you can guess the answer ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-buy-happiness

More fire of anger ... ‘Even monks get impatient’: Buddhist priest sorry for anger at tourist reviews ... Sometime being a monk is just somebody's job, and the person in the robes is still human ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ourist-reviews

We continue with Susan Moon and Norman Fischer's book in the "no words" bookclub ... WHAT IS ZEN? - Chap 3 - Form and Ritual ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...orm-and-Ritual




Reminder ... Especially for newer folks ... FEELING LOST AROUND THE COMMUNITY? Contact our "Sangha Buddhies" ... friends to help people find their way around ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...angha-Buddhies




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 DURING THE LAST DAY BEFORE POSTING IN THE FORUM (please read about that here):

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ore-Forum-Chat

Gassho, Jundo


SatTodayLAH