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

Come sit our Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - featuring the 'Heart Sutra Handpan Remix' by Rev. Yogetsu Akasaka ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ylight-Savings

How to save all beings though numberless ... Bodhicitta ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...709-Bodhicitta

Zazen and anxiety : should i keep on practicing ? ... This depends on the degree of anxiety, and if Zazen is helping ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-on-practicing

“Shikantazamylitis” ... a positive experience with practice ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...amylitis%C2%94

A truthful talk on Honesty ... and white lies ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...?18713-Honesty

Wise women of our Tradition ... Zen Women Chapter 7, Pages 130 - 135 ... in the "no words" book club ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Pages-130-135

Poetry, stories, music, painting and more ... TREELEAF ARTS & MUSIC CIRCLE ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...S-MUSIC-CIRCLE

'The ZEN of EVERYTHING! Podcast' ... Episode 47 ... Spring ... not summer, fall or winter ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...sode-47-Spring

Tonglen ... delivered right to your door ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE

Getting clean, making good ... Ryaky Fusatsu ... a recommitment to Precepts ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...tment-Ceremony

Now arriving at our top 10 gates ... The 108 GATES of DHARMA ILLUMINATION with Shokai
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...ON-with-Shokai

Calligraphy for ANYBODY! ... Shakyo Practice Circle ... tracing the Sutras, starting real soon ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...e-Introduction

Our "How to be Sick" Practice Group ... helpful practices to help handle being ill ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...Practice-Group




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