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

In light of events in the world ... please join us in sitting our Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - For World Peace ... available for sitting any time ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...or-World-Peace

In fact ... a Special Request: Let us dedicate All Zazen and Sangha Activities This Week for WORLD PEACE! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...WORLD-PEACE%21

If you can and wish ... Donations for People in Ukraine and Worldwide - Finding REPUTABLE Charities to Help! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ies-to-Help%21

It is also never too late to sit our SPECIAL "NEHAN-E" ZAZENKAI ... also available any time ... remembering the passing from this world of the Buddha in India, but also our family and friends ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-E-ZAZENKAI%21

A traditional description of the mind of Zazen... Mind as Mirror ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Mind-as-Mirror

Our signature description of what Treeleaf is about ... discovered by a very new member ... The world is virtual, this sangha is real ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...sangha-is-real

I (Jundo) was interviewed about the Zen of the Future ... while reflecting on today and the past ... Jundo Interviewed: Zen of the Future!
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-the-Future%21

A thread which started by asking how Shikantaza compares to a Shingon Buddhist meditation ... and then dove into Soto history ...
Zazen and Ajikan (and some Soto Zen History Too)
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...History-Too%29

Besides our big Friday Zazenkai ... many Zazenkai during the week, in various time Zones ... check the calendar! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/now/#calendar

Our Ecodharma Study and Practice Group is vibrant, with ideas about the Dharma and this fragile planet ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...Practice-Group

Kokuu posted some tips on Diving into Dogen ... Dogen's writing - where to start!
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...re-to-start%21

In our No Words Book Club ... we continue my The Zen Master's Dance with more Genjo Koan (end of p. 55 to middle of p. 58) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...dle-of-p-58%29

Unless you disagree ... 'The ZEN of EVERYTHING! Podcast' ... Ep. 68 ... Dissent ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Ep-68-Dissent

Our Grass Roof Tea House meets Sunday ... for a bit of tea and hospitality ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...586#post300586

Tonglen is happening ... also a powerful practice for a world in disarray ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE

And never to late to renew the Precepts too ... for it is always the full moon, seen or unseen ... Ryaku Fusatsu ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-February-2022

And, best of all, Shokai marches on with ... The 108 GATES of DHARMA ILLUMINATION ... see the light! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...ON-with-Shokai




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

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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