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

Jukai (Undertaking the Precepts) and Ango (Peaceful Abiding) Season were announced ... please consider to join on in ... information here:
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...Y-SEWING-FORUM

Please join any and all of our recent Treeleaf Zazenkais ... available any and all times ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...TTING-NETCASTS

... also our other daily and weekly sittings listed there, and on our Treeleaf Calendar: https://www.treeleaf.org/now/#calendar

A little thinking about not thinking ... Hi-shiryo 非思量 ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...80%9D%E9%87%8F

Some folks Just Sit ... Some folks chant a bit, then Just Sit ... Daily Chanting with Zazen?
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ing-with-Zazen

In our "All of Life" forum, we happened to have had several threads about Sangha members facing changes in life, sometimes with welcome, sometimes resistance, sometimes with anticipation, sometimes a little fear ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...ut-All-of-Life

A lovely project to clear up a local beach ... inspiring to many of us looking for some engaged practice ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Beach-cleanup

U.N. Climate Change Report ... if this world is our temple, then this is our practice too ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Change-Report

During our Ango period ... our next book in the 'No Words' Book Club ... "The Zen Master's Dance" ... by Cohen dancing Dogen ... please join us to read and dance along ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Master-s-Dance

In the meantime, we are looking at some Koans from the Book of Equanimity ... Case 91: Nansen's Peony ... it's the real deal ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...NIMITY-Case-91

We have a couple of new Zen of Everything Podcast episodes: ... Episode 55 ... Hermits ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ode-55-Hermits

... and Episode 56 ... What is Zen? ... (about time we talk about that! ) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...56-What-is-Zen

Our friendly tea houses have been brewing ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...dly-Tea-Houses

Not too late to join in this month's Ryaku Fusatsu - Full Moon Precepts Recommitment Ceremony ... gettin' clean ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...21-August-2021

Always Tonglen too ... a powerful practice for these hard times ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE

And, don't miss this ... a new practice session posted today in Shakyo, Sutra Tracing ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...guage-Study%29




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 a powerful Zen practice about not falling into words and thoughts, simplifying ideas, not getting tangled, we ask people to keep sentences few in posting. However, it is not some law or hard rule at all. If someone really has something in their heart to say, and it is vital and cannot be said more concisely or silently, then say what one is called to say: In such case, no limit on words needed.

A Request to Sangha Members: "Three Sacred Sentences" Practice
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ences-Practice

* * *


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):


Gassho, Jundo

(Sorry to run long)

SatTodayLAH