I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Our monthly Zazenkai has begun sitting with Master Keizan's Zazen-Yojinki ... good advice for Zazen ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Zazen-Yojinki
... the Talk on the Yokinki also available by Treeleaf Podcast ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...408#post339408
Our weekly Zazenkai is all about the plum blossoms ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-Plum-Blossoms
The wars continue ... Sunday Zazen for Peace, with Washin in Ukraine
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...hin-in-Ukraine
All things in moderation ... Caffeine and Zazen ... a cup before a sit ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...eine-and-Zazen
Is the world an illusion? ... Dealing with the world of illusion ... but a real illusion ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...ld-of-illusion
A member wants to keep sewing ... Sewing Okesa and rakusu (outside of Jukai) ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...de-of-Jukai%29
Sitting still is not always so still ... What Your Brain Does When You're Not Doing Anything
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...Doing-Anything
A painful question to answer ... Sex/bdsm and buddhism precepts ... Well, so long as nobody really gets hurt I guess ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...dhism-precepts
Two hard hitting calls for the union of Zen Buddhism, medicine and technology ... hard hitting titles, but please listen to the message ...
A Buddhist teacher (Jundo) admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED! (1)
Time for a Zen Moon Shot (2)
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...n-Shot-%282%29
In our HealthDharma group ... Turning Suffering Inside Out, chapter two, part one ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...r-two-part-one
When even a priest struggles ... Sober in the Psych Ward ... feeling better day by day ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...the-Psych-Ward
Our friendly Tea Houses have been meeting ... so stop in some time ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...dly-Tea-Houses
The 108 Gates open up ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...ON-with-Shokai
Tonglen too rolls off the tongue ...
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/foru...RACTICE-CIRCLE
And available now, hopefully into the far far future ... my new book ... BUILDING the FUTURE BUDDHA: The Zen of A.I., Genes, Saving the World, and Travel to the Stars ... Please do me a favor and post an Amazon review if your feel like it (it all helps) ...
https://futurebuddhabook.com/
And DON'T FORGET! ... the experiment continues, and we need you! ... REQUEST - SatToday & Lend-A-Hand: Please LAH and SAT before CHAT!
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...before-CHAT%21
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.
Gassho, Jundo
(Sorry to run long)
SatTodayLAH
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