I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please sit, any time or moon, with our most recent Zazenkai ... Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - The Hidden Moon ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...he-Hidden-Moon
Washin's sittings for peace continue, and we sit in solidarity ... but drone attacks in Odesa means Washin attended in heart ... let us sit for all the hospitals, schools, and civilian homes without stable power or water ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...n-from-Ukraine
ALERT: Time for Rakusu Mailing Addresses! ... and please include a phone number, needed for international mail ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...g-Addresses%21
Let's not cut any corners ... PRECEPTS X - To Refrain from Being Stingy ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...m-Being-Stingy
Beyond words and letters ... ANNOUNCING our NEXT READINGS in the BEYOND WORDS BOOK CLUB ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ORDS-BOOK-CLUB
... and also an upcoming book in our ecodharma group ... starting in 2023 ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...OK-FOR-2023%21
The Treeleaf Podcast has a special, extended episode ... compiling all the wonderful Talks on Menzan Osho from Rohatsu Retreat ... (thank you to Bion, for putting it together) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post315200
And the Zen of Everything Podcast looks at Dharma and Sangha ... as in 'Buddha Dharma Sangha' ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...1-DharmaSangha
In our TONGLEN PRACTICE CIRCLE ... there is the practice of ... TONGLEN ... and you are invited ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE
... and also Ryaku Fusatsu ... atoning to the full moon ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...tment-Ceremony
And it is that time of year ... folks with kids, especially, may want to take a peek at our Buddhist Family Holiday suggestions:
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...lidays-Webpage
and
https://www.sites.google.com/site/bu...yholidays/home
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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