I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please join our weekly Treeleaf Zazenkai ... Chanting the Bát-nhă-ba-la-mật-đa tâm kinh (Heart Sutra in Vietnamese) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-t%C3%A2m-kinh
Ryaku Fusatsu ceremony, 26 April 2021 ... always a good time to recite the Precepts ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...tment-Ceremony
Shakyo Practice Circle ... get your pens ready, starting this week ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...guage-Study%29
And Tonglen too ... Tonglen Practice Circle ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE
Don't forget our always welcoming Tea Houses ... the door is always open ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...dly-Tea-Houses
In Arts and Music ... for our writers ... Attachment and the Writer's Relationship to Words ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...562#post284562
Our "BEYOND WORDS & LETTERS" BOOK CLUB ... Zen Women! ... overcoming many obstacles to practice ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...TERS-BOOK-CLUB
In 'Living Earth' ... Some books and programs for the Ecosattva ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post284557
An Informal Reading Group is informally reading REALIZING GENJOKOAN ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-11-April-2021
The Chanting & Zazen Circle is, well, chanting and sitting Zazen (in a circle!) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...g-Zazen-Circle
Our How to be Sick group is still going ... for folks with lingering health issues, as well as those who love and care for them ...
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!)
As well, 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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