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**Konidurase** · 03-07-2011, 10:29 PM

Hi Jade,

I was a very enthusiastic reader of Thich Books and there he makes a huge emphasis in having a sangha and I then idealized that. I found a nice little Soto Zen group of people and I thought they will be like that beautiful Thichs's sangha and I discovered that they were very common people with the same shortcomings of everybody. So, after a while, I understood that even when having a sangha is good it is not so important as Thich tells endlessly in his books. I stopped going so frequently to the dojo and I just go once a week so to practice sitting meditation.

Another issue is that, IMO, to be surrounded with people that thinks alike all the time do not fits with me. Here, in this forum, I can read and learn from others experience and to know that there is a huge amount of different ways of practice which give you an insight that the way we understand and practice is not the only one. This is a very liberating insight and makes practice less stressful.

03-07-2011, 10:29 PM	#5
Konidurase Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 412 Senior Member	Hi Jade, I was a very enthusiastic reader of Thich Books and there he makes a huge emphasis in having a sangha and I then idealized that. I found a nice little Soto Zen group of people and I thought they will be like that beautiful Thichs's sangha and I discovered that they were very common people with the same shortcomings of everybody. So, after a while, I understood that even when having a sangha is good it is not so important as Thich tells endlessly in his books. I stopped going so frequently to the dojo and I just go once a week so to practice sitting meditation. Another issue is that, IMO, to be surrounded with people that thinks alike all the time do not fits with me. Here, in this forum, I can read and learn from others experience and to know that there is a huge amount of different ways of practice which give you an insight that the way we understand and practice is not the only one. This is a very liberating insight and makes practice less stressful.
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