• January 19th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

    Hello All,

    Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE from 9am Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 7pm, Los Angeles 4pm (Friday night), London midnight and Paris 1am (early Saturday morning)

    ... and to be visible at the following link during those times and sit-a-long-able any time thereafter ...

    LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at GOOGLE+ IS HERE:
    CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN


    http://youtu.be/IZR91vkke4k

    FOR THOSE NOT ALREADY MEMBERS OF THE CIRCLE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO SIT LIVE WITH A CAMERA, INSTRUCTIONS ARE POSTED AT THIS LINK. WE ARE NOW LIMITED TO 10 INDIVIDUALS WITH CAMERAS, BUT ANY NUMBER CAN WATCH LIVE 'ONE WAY' AND SIT-A-LONG VIA THE ABOVE SCREEN. IF JOINING WITH CAMERA, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR MICROPHONE IS MUTED:

    00:00 – 00:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English) and Dedication
    00:15 – 00:45 ZAZEN
    00:45 – 00:55 KINHIN
    00:55 – 01:25 ZAZEN
    01:25 – 01:30 FOUR VOWS & VERSE OF ATONEMENT


    As you can see, our Zazenkai consists of chanting the 'Heart Sutra' in English (the words are at the link below), some full floor prostrations in sets of three (please follow along with me ... or a simple Gassho can be substituted if you wish), followed by our Dedication, Zazen twice for about 30 minutes each, with 10 minutes of Kinhin in between, and we end the sitting with 'The Verse of Atonement' and 'The Four Vows'.

    Please download and print out the Chants we will recite at the following link (PDF):


    Chant Book (PDF)

    or

    Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML)

    So, please join us as soon as you can, and we will keep a Zafu open for you.

    Remember, when we drop all thought of 'here' 'there' 'now' 'then' ... we are sitting all together!


    Gassho, Jundo
    This article was originally published in forum thread: January 19th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai started by Jundo View original post
    Comments 27 Comments
    1. Koshin's Avatar
      Koshin -
      Will be at a work related event, Saturday morning this time for me

      Gassho
    1. Mp's Avatar
      Mp -
      I will be there.

      Gassho
      Shingen
    1. Hans's Avatar
      Hans -
      Hello,

      I'll sit with you all when I catch the recorded version this Saturday.

      Gassho and thank you for your practise,

      Hans Chudo Mongen
    1. RichardH's Avatar
      RichardH -
      Will be there.



      Gassho, Daizan
    1. Daitetsu's Avatar
      Daitetsu -
      As always:
      Will try to stay up to be there live w/out webcam, but if I'm too tired I will look forward to the recorded session the next evening.

      Gassho,

      Timo
    1. Nindo's Avatar
      Nindo -
      Will try to make it tonight!
    1. Dosho's Avatar
      Dosho -
      I'll be there.

      Gassho,
      Dosho
    1. jeff_u's Avatar
      jeff_u -
      See you all there.

      Gassho,
      Jeff
    1. Seimyo's Avatar
      Seimyo -
      I will be sitting over the weekend.

      Gassho.
      Chris
    1. Dosho's Avatar
      Dosho -
      Deep bows all around.

      Gassho,
      Dosho
    1. Mp's Avatar
      Mp -
      Thank you Jundo and everyone who sat ... have a wonderful weekend.

      Gassho
      Shingen
    1. RichardH's Avatar
      RichardH -
      Gassho


      Daizan
    1. jeff_u's Avatar
      jeff_u -
      Thank you all.

      Gassho,
      Jeff
    1. Yugen's Avatar
      Yugen -
      I'm just still so disappointed.....

      I was expecting so much more from my zazen, and .... nothing!

      Deep bows
      Yugen
    1. Nindo's Avatar
      Nindo -
      A toboggan wanting to fly off the balcony - now that's Friday night action
      So good to see you all. Hi Linda!!!!
    1. Jakudo's Avatar
      Jakudo -
      My first "live" Zazenkai was a smashing success, and a bitter disappointment...
      Thank you to all who did, will, and is sitting.
      Gassho, Shawn Jakudo Hinton.
    1. Jundo's Avatar
      Jundo -
      Quote Originally Posted by Jakudo View Post
      My first "live" Zazenkai was a smashing success, and a bitter disappointment...
      Thank you to all who did, will, and is sitting.
      Gassho, Shawn Jakudo Hinton.
      Hah! Here is the talk I mentioned ...


      http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...3651#post93651
    1. Marla567's Avatar
      Marla567 -
      Thank you all for sitting together!

      Gassho
      Bianca / Shinka
    1. Heisoku's Avatar
      Heisoku -
      Thank you Jundo and all sitting in mediocrity!
    1. Myoku's Avatar
      Myoku -
      Thank you everyone,
      Gassho
      Myoku