October 2nd Recommended Threads

[Jundo]

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

An auspicious time ... ANNOUNCEMENT: Dharma Transmission of Jikidō Sekishi ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...%C5%8D-Sekishi

Latest Precept reflections for Jukai ... PRECEPTS III - To Refrain From Taking Life ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...om-Taking-Life

Still the moment to sit, right now, any time ... our Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Accept Allow Faith Trust Empty Whole Let Go Words ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...e-Let-Go-Words

Also ... Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - What is the Purpose of Zen? ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Purpose-of-Zen

It is not so important the words we use to describe Zazen ... but how we sit Zazen ... Open the hand of thought? ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...and-of-thought

Another question about words ... Verse of atonement: "created" vs "committed"
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...d-vs-committed

A little nothing reminder ... A Good 7 Minutes of Nothing ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...tes-of-Nothing

Our Jinkan suffers a fire, on top of everything else ... but he is okay ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...l=1#post331182

What does it mean? ... Question about Jukai and lay people ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...and-lay-people

[FutureBuddha (55)] BUDDHANOMICS (PART V): Made RedundAInt ... even the employment agency will be run by AI ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ade-RedundAInt

... redistributing cAIpital ... [FutureBuddha (56)] BUDDHANOMICS (PART VI): GBI for AI ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...%29-GBI-for-AI

Not about booze, but about Zazen and Ango ... Staying on the wagon ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...g-on-the-wagon

Any ideas for making Treeleaf better? ... Our New Treeleaf "Suggestion Box" ... all voices welcome ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Suggestion-Box

The Ecosattvas are doing their thing ... Ecodharma Study and Practice Group ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...Practice-Group

New chapter ... and she is coming to visit Treeleaf next Sunday ... [Challenging Times] -(17)- Grappling with the Green-Eyed Monster - Konin Cardenas
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Konin-Cardenas

Tonglen is throwing down good vibes ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE

... and Ryaku Fusatsu ... a time for a clean, fresh start ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...tember-29-2023



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):

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ore-Forum-Chat

Gassho, Jundo

(Sorry to run long)

SatTodayLAH

[Jundo]

And a special mention ...

A Treeleaf Event w/ A Very Special Teacher- Konin Cardenas/Dhammadipa -Sun. Oct. 8th

A Guest Teacher who combines the Soto Zen and Theravadan Paths ... ... Ayyā Dhammadīpā, who is also Soto Priest Rev. Konin Cardenas, will be visiting Treeleaf next Sunday ...

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...296#post331296

Gassho, Jundo

stlah

[Tai Shi]

It was most important tthat I heard from Dhamppadia that I can live partially for myself. And her response to disability was most interesting. I must have lived in part for myself. As a disabled person, only I could know what I could to fulfil my life. I always wanted to be a college English tteacher, and I did, but the truth was that I was not the best teacher but I was always true to my wife and daughter, and my passion was to be a poet, and family man, and let my wife earn the money. I had to learn to be frugal and this took me fro age 22 to age 60 because I have bipolar disorder. At 60 I became fulfilled as I was diagnosed properly not with schizophrenia. This lifted a great burden off my shoulders, and this has allowed me to move to an awakened being as old.
Gassho
sat/lah

[ANDREALHOEKSTRA]

So glad you can be here and thank you for your help. Much appreciated.