I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Our Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts) and Ango (Peaceful Abiding) season has begun! ... All the action is here ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...glen-Too%21%29
There is still opportunity to join in the fun ... some basic information on Jukai and Ango here:
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...I-TIME-2018%21
and
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...0-Days%29-2018
For our Rakusu sewers for Jukai, the needles are on the move ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ong-%282018%29
For our Ango-ers, commitments and experiences are being shared ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...PERIENCES-HERE
... and the Practice Partner Exercises will soon get rolling ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...tner-Exercises
and
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...now-each-other
You can join in our monthly Four Hour Treeleaf Zazenkai, available any place and time ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-JUKAI-ANGO%21
... and the Talk on Jukai and Ango is also available by podcast ...
https://treeleaf.podbean.com/e/septe...bogenzo-jukai/
Some other discussions and activities around the Sangha too ...
What happens and what to do when our loved one does not understand? ... Resistance to Buddha ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ance-to-Buddha
How lovely to sit here, how lovely to sit with a "bricks and mortar" Sangha when we can ... Local Sanghas/Temples ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...anghas-Temples
Why we don't practice "mindfulness meditation" at Treeleaf ... and, anyway, just what is "mindfulness?" ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...indfulness-etc
To sit through sensations (makyo?) or not? ... depends ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...kyo-%29-or-not
A lay hero of Mahayana Buddhism and Zen ... Vimalakirti ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...37-vimalakirti
And speaking if how lay folks and monks life ... What is the zen lifestyle? ... (I feel that there is one) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-zen-lifestyle
People sometimes overlook just how radical these Zen Teachings are ... don't miss Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post228514
... and some waxing on about the fullness of Emptiness ... Emptiness is form and form is emptiness ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post228679
And a thread not to be missed ... why practicing with health and other "obstacles to practice" is no obstacle, and is practice itself! ... Sick and tired and happy and grateful ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...y-and-grateful
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
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