I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
We had our monthly 4-hour Zazenkai, with visiting Monk Kakunen ... still sitable any time ... and all our other sits too ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...TTING-NETCASTS
Washin continues sitting from Odessa ... which was hit by a big air strike this same Sunday ... please join him too ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post302702
Please try this exercise in understanding Dogen's word ways ... worth making the time ... Encouragement to Try this Week's "Zen Master's Dance" Lesson on Relative Motion/Time ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ve-Motion-Time
How does one describe Thinking Not Thinking? ... that's a hard problem to think about ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...g-Not-Thinking
Should Zen folks sometimes feel guilty (yes! sometimes, for sure!) ... and why Zazen and the Precepts are One ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...d-the-Precepts
Is sleeping Zazen? ... NO! ... but one might dream Zazen ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...sleeping-Zazen
Announcing Treeleaf's mission to the stars ... MAJOR TREELEAF ANNOUNCEMENT: Springing into Space ... just in time for the start of April ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ing-into-Space
Another attempt at a little Zen humor ... How To Be A Successful Zen Teacher (and really rake in the Big Bucks!) ... an old April Fools from an old fool in April ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ig-Bucks%21%29
Always TIME for TONGLEN ... and that's no foolin' ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...e-3-April-2022
Why is the Japanese Heart Sutra so "chunka chunka chunka"? ... a musical interlude ... Heart Sutra Different Languages
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...rent-Languages
Kakunen gets ready for his Japanese Hossenshiki(Dharma Combat Ceremony) ... like Zen "stump the band" ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...at-celemony%29
He also shares a mini-tour of some of the public areas of Eiheiji ... Sharing video at Eye view at Eiheiji ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...iew-at-Eiheiji
Kotei's sharing of the Freedom Bell ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...3-Freedom-bell
And, thank you for another year's cycle ... Shokai's The 108 GATES of DHARMA ILLUMINATION heads for the home stretch ...
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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