I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please sit our weekly Zazenkai ... this week, knowing Universe as Ukulele ... and don't miss the Tap Dancing Heart Sutras too! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Ukulele-Hannya
... and, of course, we have our other Zazen sittings during the week too ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...TTING-NETCASTS
Our latest Precept Reflections are posted ... and this one is a very sexy topic ... PRECEPTS V - To Refrain from Misusing Sexuality ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...sing-Sexuality
Now posted and available for download ... simple, easy to use ... A Treeleaf GUIDEBOOK & MAP (PDF) ... to help find one's way ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-MAP-%28PDF%29
In the Zen as Embodiment series ... (7) - Of the Body, Of the Mind ... or just "BodyMind" ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...dy-Of-the-Mind
Questions about the Platform Sutra ... Who wrote it? ... Why did Dogen sometimes doubt it? ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Platform-Sutra
Or you can just watch the really cheezy Kung Fu movie version! ... Movie: The Legend of Huineng ... the Life of Bodhidharma too! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...end-of-Huineng
... and what about the Demon’s cave in the black mountain ... sounds like something for Halloween ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...black-mountain
Where did Kinhin come from ... and where is Kinhin going? ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...p?18231-Kinhin
Zen Buddhism is not fatalism ... and I like to sometimes speak of "acceptance-without-acceptance" ... Fatalism vs acceptance in Zazen
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...tance-in-Zazen
Not just a place to put one's butt ... Zafu recommendation ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...recommendation
And a question of posture ... Posture and the content of my zazen ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...nt-of-my-zazen
Kokuu introduces an important documentary on Netflix about this planet ... Life on Earth
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Life-on-Earth
... and another documentary on Netflix about the dangers of social media ... including Netflix! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post274227
Time for tea and biscuits? ... Our Friendly 'Tea Houses' ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...dly-Tea-Houses
'The ZEN of EVERYTHING! Podcast' ... Episode 36 ... A Zen Guide to Elections ... even Zen folks can have preferences ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...e-to-Elections
Oh, and yes ... my book is finally out ... Released Today: THE ZEN MASTER’S DANCE by Jundo Cohen!
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Jundo-Cohen%21
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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