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

You are always invited to our several Zazenkai including our weekly (but available any time) Treeleaf Zazenkai netcast ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...TTING-NETCASTS

A question from someone a little new ... about getting around, finding our resources at Treeleaf ... Manoeuvering the Sangha ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ing-the-Sangha

Zazen and the 3 poisons ... does Zazen help cure our greed, anger and ignorance? ... I sure feel so! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-the-3-poisons

Zazen experiences ... they come and go ... do not demand that they stay ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post306273

Zen Equaimity... is not always about feeling equanimious about everything ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...184-Equanimity

What happens when work does not give joy? ... Unsatisfactory nature of career achievement ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...er-achievement

It is just some planks of wood, but where did it start? ... History of seiza bench ... In Zazen, it has no start or end! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...of-seiza-bench

The reviews are coming in ... The Book of Form and Emptiness ... Is there some substance there? ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-and-Emptiness

I have heard interviews with him before, but this extended version is lovely ... Interview with Shohaku Okumura ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...hohaku-Okumura

Is it okay to expect some reward or be happy to give? ... Practicing giving for future merits? ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...re%20merits%3F

Our friendly, neighborhood 'Tea Houses' gather from time to time ... drop on in ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...dly-Tea-Houses

There was a Ryaku Fusatsu Precepts renewal last week ... but never to late to join in, and renew! ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...y-14-June-2022



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














Treeleaf ANNOUNCEMENT: THE MONASTERY of OPEN DOORS ... opening paths closed to many for so long ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-of-OPEN-DOORS