January 3rd/4th, 2014 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR!

Jundo

Published on 01-04-2014 07:59 PM Number of Views: 5550

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STILL HAVING ISSUES WITH INVITATIONS TO THE HANGOUT WHICH WE HOPE TO RESOLVE IN THE COMING WEEKS. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE AN INVITATION, WE ARE STILL SITTING TOGETHER IN OUR HEARTS.

Readings for today's Dharma Talk are below in this thread.

Please 'sit-a-long' with our MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE 8am to noon Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 6pm to 10pm, Los Angeles 3pm to 7pm (Friday night), London 10pm to 2am and Paris 11pm to 3am (early Saturday morning)) ... and visible at the following link during those times ...

... to be visible at the following link during those times and any time thereafter ...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U9_SYRBY7A

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:

The Sitting Schedule is as follows;

00:00 - 00:50 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA / SANDOKAI IN ENGLISH) & ZAZEN
00:50 - 01:00 KINHIN
01:00 - 01:30 ZAZEN
01:30 - 01:50 KINHIN

01:50 - 02:30 DHARMA TALK & ZAZEN
02:30 - 02:40 KINHIN

02:40 - 03:15 ZAZEN
03:15 - 03:30 KINHIN
03:30 - 04:00 METTA CHANT & ZAZEN, VERSE OF ATONEMENT, FOUR VOWS, & CLOSING

Our Zazenkai consists of our chanting the 'Heart Sutra' and the 'Identity of Relative and Absolute (Sandokai)' in English (please download our Chant Book at the link below), some full floor prostrations (please follow along with me ... or a simple Gassho can be substituted if you wish), a little talk by me ... and we close with the 'Metta Chant', followed at the end with the 'Verse of Atonement' and 'The Four Vows'. Oh, and lots and lots of Zazen and walkin' Kinhin in between!

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

Chant Book (PDF)

or

Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML)

I STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT YOU POSITION YOUR ZAFU ON THE FLOOR IN A PLACE WHERE YOU ARE NOT STARING DIRECTLY AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN, BUT CAN GLANCE OVER AND SEE THE SCREEN WHEN NECESSARY. YOUR ZAFU SHOULD ALSO BE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE COMPUTER SCREEN WHILE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE ZAFU FOR THE CEREMONIES, AND HAVE ROOM FOR BOWING AND KINHIN.

ALSO, REMEMBER TO SET YOUR COMPUTER (& SCREEN SAVER) SO THAT IT DOES NOT SHUT OFF DURING THE 4 HOURS.

I hope you will join us ... an open Zafu is waiting. When we drop all thought of 'here' 'there' 'now' 'then' ... we are sitting all together!

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43 Comments

Koshin - 01-03-2014, 10:58 PM
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Take great care sitters up north, you all suffering storms and blizzard, and I here in Mexico City complaining about 61° F ....still at work, may join you one hour late or so

Gassho

Kantai - 01-03-2014, 11:20 PM
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Have a good sit all of you.
I will sit later when it's not so late...

Gassho
Edward

Sekishi - 01-03-2014, 11:25 PM
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I missed the fact that it is an hour earlier this week! Will sit with the recorded video. Thank you all for your practice.
Deep bows,
Eric

Myoshin - 01-03-2014, 11:57 PM
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An hour earlier in us? In Europe it's since octobre, strange; just noticed that.
Good idea to post the study text of the zazenkai this time, maybe it's a good idea to continue it in the future to keep it in a file for example?

Gassho

Myoshin

Myozan Kodo - 01-03-2014, 11:57 PM
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Found you!

Thank you so much for this opportunity to sit with you live Jundo, and all. Past midnight here, so will sit the rest tomorrow.

Deep bows,
Myozan

Matt - 01-04-2014, 01:02 AM
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Will be sitting this one this weekend. Deep bows, Matt J

Mp - 01-04-2014, 03:02 AM
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Thank you Jundo and everyone ... Happy New Year ... Happy New Moment! Have a great weekend. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Juki - 01-04-2014, 03:02 AM
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Awesome January Zazenkai. Thank you for the Dharma talk, Jundo. Thanks to Kyonin for serving as Doan. Thanks to all who sat or will sit.

Gassho,
William

Shinzan - 01-04-2014, 03:03 AM
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So, Dosho, what was your question after lecture??
Hope you feel better soon.
_/\_ Shinzan

Koshin - 01-04-2014, 03:09 AM
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Thank you all, have a great weekend/year/moment

Gassho

Jundo - 01-04-2014, 03:11 AM
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Thank you guys.

Here is the cartoon I reference in the Talk. Dharma the Cat is a great series if you Google it.

Gassho, J

Dosho - 01-04-2014, 03:17 AM
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Thanks everyone...deep bows.

Shinzan: My question was, "How will we know when we are in "it" for profit and when are we in "it" for need?"

Gassho,
Dosho

Mp - 01-04-2014, 03:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Jundo

Thank you guys.

Here is the cartoon I reference in the Talk. Dharma the Cat is a great series if you Google it.

Gassho, J

That is awesome, thank you Jundo. =)

Gassho
Shingen

jslinjr - 01-04-2014, 05:19 AM
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Unfortunately I was unable to sit live with you all. The 4 hour Zazenkai is a little more difficult with so many in the family (5 children and the lovely wife). Tomorrow I will just sit with the recording. Thank you for the wonderful opportunity.

Gassho,
Jeff

Taikyo - 01-04-2014, 10:18 AM
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Thank you all who sat, are sitting and will sit. Thank you Jundo for yet again a great talk and right on tune and thanks to Kyonin for being Doan . I must apologise Jundo for missing the time change, if I had seen it I would certainly have joined live. If the change is to be a regular occurrence I will definitely be up for joining live. Have a great weekend everyone and again Happy New Year!
Gassho
Taikyo

Kyonin - 01-04-2014, 11:04 AM
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Thank you all for sitting.

Have a lovely weekend.

Gassho,

Kyonin

Jundo - 01-04-2014, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Taikyo

Thank you all who sat, are sitting and will sit. Thank you Jundo for yet again a great talk and right on tune and thanks to Kyonin for being Doan . I must apologise Jundo for missing the time change, if I had seen it I would certainly have joined live. If the change is to be a regular occurrence I will definitely be up for joining live. Have a great weekend everyone and again Happy New Year!
Gassho
Taikyo

I believe the time change was my miscalculation. I will have it sorted out next month.

Gassho, J

Daitetsu - 01-04-2014, 01:11 PM
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Did not make it to the live sitting, I’m afraid.
Will sit with the recording this Sunday.

Thanks a lot for your practice!

Gassho,

Timo