I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please sit our weekly Treeleaf Zazenkai ... any place and any time ... and our other Zazen group sittings during the week ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...TTING-NETCASTS
Washin's Sittings continue from Ukraine, where we all wait for peace to return ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...VINGS%21%21%29
Washin water's the trees ... not waiting for a later time, not even waiting for them to bloom ... just watering ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...is-on-schedule
A wise and powerful short Teaching by Jakuden ... Are These Dark Times? Or Just Being-Times? ... don't miss it ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...st-Being-Times
Kokuu posts an article, "Do we still need religion?" ... I think yes, but for me, it must be a certain kind of "religion" ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-need-religion
A thread from awhile back, but always worth recalling ... Attaining something in Zazen ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...thing-in-Zazen
I would like lots of folks to give this one a try ... Encouragement to Try this Week's "Zen Master's Dance" Lesson on Relative Motion/Time ... please find the time to find out about time ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ve-Motion-Time
Speaking of which, how to read-non-read Dharma books ... Sharing experiences of Dharma study ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...f-Dharma-study
A famous Pilgrimage Around Shikoku in Japan ... and some kinds of Soto Zen pilgrimages too ..
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Around-Shikoku
Our Ecodharma Study and Practice Group looks at this precious world ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...Practice-Group
Washin found some time to lead Tonglen this week ... a powerful practice, especially when an enemy is right off shore ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post302189
Shokai reaches 100 ... The 108 GATES of DHARMA ILLUMINATION ... (I think that means 8 Gates to Go?) ...
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
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