August 23-24th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Jundo

Published on 08-24-2013 03:37 AM Number of Views: 6586

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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 8pm, Los Angeles 5pm (Friday night), London 1am and Paris 2am (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/VGTOZdyixu4

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

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30 Comments

Juki - 08-24-2013, 02:34 PM
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Shokai: none of us could join live. We all sat with the live stream. But, there was no invitation to join the hangout on Google Plus.

Heisoku - 08-24-2013, 03:44 PM
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Thank you Jundo and Gassho to everyone sitting. Sat for the first time in my kesa, man was it hot! Gassho.

Myoku - 08-25-2013, 06:43 AM
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Gassho and thank you everyone,
nice haircut Jundo ;-)
Gassho
Myoku

adrianbkelly - 08-25-2013, 06:50 AM
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Thanks everyone!

_/\_
Ade

Genki - 08-25-2013, 08:02 PM
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Thank you for this time. I sat with you all this Sunday evening.

Gassho,
Björn

Daitetsu - 08-26-2013, 09:12 PM
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Just finished sitting with you all - thanks a lot for your practice!

Gassho,

Timo

Kantai - 08-26-2013, 09:30 PM
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Thank you everyone, nice sound this time.

Gassho!
/Edward

Daijo - 08-27-2013, 11:55 PM
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I sat along Sunday with 5 others at the Bodhi Tree Cafe. The audio was very low and I missed the bell a couple of times, but my natural timer kicked in so we were within a few seconds of you Jundo. Thank you.

Jundo - 08-28-2013, 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by chuck13

I sat along Sunday with 5 others at the Bodhi Tree Cafe. The audio was very low and I missed the bell a couple of times, but my natural timer kicked in so we were within a few seconds of you Jundo. Thank you.

Yes, we are in different time Zones but (Einstein aside), 30 minutes here is 30 minutes there.

Nice have you all together.

Gassho, J