August 6th, 2011- OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI!

Dear All,

Accompanied by a chorus of singing summer cicadas ...

Please 'sit-a-long' with our MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE 8am to noon Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 7pm to 11pm, Los Angeles 4pm to 8pm (Friday night), London midnight to 4am and Paris 1am to 5am (early Saturday morning)) ... and visible at the following link during those times ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at JUSTIN.TV:
REMEMBER TO CLICK ON "FULL SCREEN" VERSION!

http://www.justin.tv/treeleafzen

But FEAR NOT if not possible for you to join 'live' in your location at those times, as the entire sitting is recorded in 'REAL TIME' and available for full participation 'ON DEMAND' at ANY TIME after that, no different from the 'live' sitting . Just click then on the links below:

THE 'REAL TIME, ANY TIME' recorded version is divided into 3 parts as follows (click on the links) :

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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
ZAZENKAI PART I LINK:


01:50 - 02:30 DHARMA TALK & ZAZEN
02:30 - 02:40 KINHIN
TALK & ZAZEN PART 2 LINK:


02:40 - 03:15 ZAZEN
03:15 - 03:30 KINHIN
03:30 - 04:00 METTA CHANT & ZAZEN, VERSE OF ATONEMENT, FOUR VOWS, & CLOSING
ZAZENKAI PART 3 LINK:

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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 Chant Book (PDF) at the following link:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2231

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!

Gassho, Jundo

Hi all,

I'll be sitting live with the netcast, but also in a Google+ Hangout if anyone wishes to join me! :)

Gassho,
Dosho

Be right there (my 2 y/o may walk by but just ignore her. :wink:

Gassho,

Shawn

Who am I?
I AM WHO!
That's WHO!

Wicked grharma talk, Jundo 8)

Good to see you all! Great sit!


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Seiryu

Thank you for this Zazenkai. It was a pleasure sitting with you all.

What? WHAT! That's what! :wink:

Thank you Jundo...and to all who sat, are sitting, or will sit...deep bows.

And I think those of you noticing the chatter on the justin.tv chat room during the metta verses may have an idea who I had in mind as my "difficult" person. ;)

Gassho,
Dosho

Thank you once again Jundo for your continued commitment to our practice.

Podcast of the zazenkai talk is published as well:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tree ... d417051167

Gassho,

Shawn

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Originally Posted by Dosho

Thank you Jundo...and to all who sat, are sitting, or will sit...deep bows.

And I think those of you noticing the chatter on the justin.tv chat room during the metta verses may have an idea who I had in mind as my "difficult" person. ;)

Gassho,
Dosho

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Yeah I did just the same. A little respect would be useful for those guys. What I did was to block them and it was fine after that.

Thank you Jundo Sensei and all fellow sitters!

Gassho,
John

WHASSUUUP?! 8)

Managed to sit the whole thing this morning. Hooray!

Gassho

Jen