Thanks for sharing, makes me want to dig out my old 5D.
Gassho, Drew
Sat
Thanks for sharing, makes me want to dig out my old 5D.
Gassho, Drew
Sat
Cotton farm on the way to work this AM - West Texas.
Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__
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We added a member to our family a few months ago. This is Gus.
Gassho,
Shoka
St-lah
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This is my attempt at a first attempt at a makeshift altar for my meditation space, after reading Susan Pliver's 'Start Here Now' (which is not in the Zen tradition). My apologies for my photo not being as well done as I feel the rest of the photos in this thread are. This is from just before I joined Treeleaf Zendo. It remains the same, except now my meditation cushions are across the room so I can face the wall when I sit Zazen. The pictures of flowers are for beauty and impermanence, the electric tealight is because my host where I live is afraid of fire and has asked me not to light things.. I was going to put pictures of the buddha and Quan Yin? (sp?) and others in the frames but when I propped it up against the object it seemed perfect the way it was. The objects are trinkets that are special to me. Not pictured but nearby in a aromatherapy misting diffuser that I use instead of incense, for the same reason I was using the electric tealight. Currently I am enjoying the scent of Orange, or was.
initial-attempt-at-an-altar by Theresa, on Flickr
Looking at the photo, I'm not sure what to do with how busy it seems, because there are 4 of us living in this house, 5 when my niece is home from college, and I moved here from a one bedroom apartment (You can see one of the spaces for my books under the table that I am using for the altar), so I am lucky to have as much space as I do for my things.
I have now watched the first sit-a-long in the Beginner Talks section. Thank you for pointing me to them, Kotei?, and recording them, Jundo.
Blessings,
Theresa
Sat Today
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Be humble for you are made of earth,
Be noble for you are made of stars.
I think it looks terrific Theresa. Mine is just a tiny section of our bookcase up high surrounded by cooking, animal and other miscellaneous books. Space is hard to find our one room dwelling and 2 of our cats would absolutely demolish an alter any lower haha.
Gassho
Onka (Anna)
Sat today
穏 On (Calm)
火 Ka (Fires)
They/She.
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Ummm...I don't want to be That Guy, but I've been to the hardware store and we've been doing this zendo thing wrong this whole time.
Gassho
Nenka
ST
:'D
穏 On (Calm)
火 Ka (Fires)
They/She.
I think I may know where you got your inspiration from
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合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
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Gorgeous Jishin
Gassho,
SatToday
Be humble for you are made of earth,
Be noble for you are made of stars.
Our Ditch Kitty, yet again, dear Jishin,
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Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆
Sweet Tai Shi
Gassho
Sat Today
Be humble for you are made of earth,
Be noble for you are made of stars.
This guy seems to know something about sitting (Dallas Zoo).
Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__
Jishin;
Great photo, Ia that a lemur?
gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
Lovely sitting lemur, Jishin. Apes are awesome too
Gassho
Washin
st
Kaidō (皆道) Every Way
Washin (和信) Harmony Trust
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I am a novice priest-in-training. Anything that I say must not be considered as teaching
and should be taken with a 'grain of salt'.
Thank you! Now this Herculean fellow knows all about chop wood and fetch water.
Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__
Jishin;
Great pic of the tortoise. Where did he find such a neatly groomed grass to rest.
gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
This guy shouldn’t look so angry! He escaped thanksgiving (thanks to the Fort Worth Zoo).
Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__
Looks just like his great great great grandfather that beat me up when I was about six.
gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
Didn’t know that they could be aggressive like that but I guess they can. Just read about it.
Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__
And I was a small six, vulnerable target. Thankfully, my cousin was close at hand and chased him off.
Gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
Well, they get pretty big. They sure are pretty though.
Glad you lived.
Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__
Great pics.
gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
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gassho, Shokai 🙏🙏🙏
stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
Shokai,
Nice uke. Interesting headstock. I just bought one a couple of months ago and am trying to learn a few songs. See attached.
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Gassho
STlah
James
That's a beauty/ Is it a tenor or Baritone. Mine is a 27 inch Fender. That's their signature headstock. Do you play any other instrument. There are a pile of tutorials on youtube. and, I recently bought a Jake Shimabukuro song book from Amazon that gives 10 free lessons by Jake. I found it extremely beneficial in that it introduced me into working up the fret board.
gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
Thanks, Shokai. It's a concert size uke. I thought that was a Fender headstock. I have been watching YouTube videos too. Doing some blues chord progressions and turnarounds. Not too difficult actually. I also mess around on the guitar too.
When I got my ukelele my 16 year old granddaughter who sings and plays piano said, hey let me try it. But she's left handed. So I said, your left handed, it's going to be backwards. Upside down. You can't....And she says yeah just let me see it. And then starts playing left handed, playing chords on it like no problem. I was quite impressed. So I told her buy a lefty and see how much easier it is. And she did. And it is.
Gassho
STlah
James
I don’t know if this is a place in which I might apologize to all the Sangha for my atrocious behavior on the presentation yesterday from the Abbott of an Oregon Zen Center, the Roshi who will ordain Dyo and I so spoiled the wonderful talk about women in and out of Zen and Buddhism. My complete misunderstanding for I am 68 and she is 74, and I know Dyo also lived through these times when many women were treated poorly. And the Abbot was there for many in San Francisco in early days. This picture is fo The Abbot, Dyo, and especially for our new Sangha member.
Tai Shi
sat/ lah
Gassho
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Near our home in Hartford.
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Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆
Yet one mor picture for our new member.
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Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆
Thank you
Tai Shi Gassho
Dedicated to Treeleaf Zendo
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Peaceful Poet, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, limited to positive 優婆塞 台 婆
I think we both missed it
gassho
doyu is self isolated/not self isolated and sat today
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Visiting unsui: use salt
Iwas talking to a guitar player who is left handed. He started playing left on a regular guitar but switched to the right side when he found out he could play easier that way
gassho, Shokai
stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
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Just to get back on-thread
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stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"
https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
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In celebration of spring
Doshin
St
Nevada/California. Casinos are empty but nature is not.
Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__
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Beautiful landscapes, Jishin.
Thank you for the photos.
Gassho,
Mateus
Sat/LAH