June 1st/May 31st, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

SCHEDULE CHANGE: Because it is not yet the new month in most of the world, I have moved our Monthly 4-Hour Zazenkai to next week! We will have our weekly sit today.

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/JVcAaPyrQaE

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 gassho1

I'll be there live :)

Gassho,

Kyonin

SCHEDULE CHANGE: Because it is not yet the new month in most of the world, I have moved our Monthly 4-Hour Zazenkai to next week! We will have our weekly sit today.

Sorry for any confusion.

Time is an artificial measure of the calendar ... yet May is not June. [monk]

I will be there as well. Is the start time 7 PM New York or 8 PM New York?

Deep bows
Yugen

I am quickly becoming a regular, if only a few hrs later. However, I will sit live with you next week as it will be my first 4hr Zazenkai with Treeleaf!![happy]gassho2

Gassho

David

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Yugen

I will be there as well. Is the start time 7 PM New York or 8 PM New York?

Deep bows
Yugen

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Same as every week.

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)


Gassho, J

I will be there live as well.

Gassho,
William

Thanks Jundo for the clarification.

Gassho

Will be there :)

Gassho

Wonderful, I will be there. :)

Gassho
Shingen

Wont be there too much work .... well, will be choping wood instead ;)

Sent from Tapatalk

It does not show me any hangout on Google PLus and I have been trying for twenty minutes. I cannot get in. I apologize for missing this live, but I will follow the stream in real time. Gassho, William

Thank you everyone for the sitting, this is my greeting and thanks for the sitting

Gassho,

James

Thanks everyone! :)

Gassho,
Dosho

Thank you everyone. Another wonderful evening/morning Zazenkai at Treeleaf.

Thank you everyone ... Have a great weekend. :)

Gassho
Shingen

Thanks everyone

Gassho
Aaron

Thank you all - have a fine weekend - and a deep bow to those who will sit in the morn in Europe and the UK -

Gassho
Yugen

Thank you all for sitting!

"Whole" in one,
Eric

Again thank you for your practice - and it is even sunny in Wales this morning!!!

Gassho


David

Thanks everyone who sat / will sit.

Have a lovely weekend.

Gassho,

Kyonin

Thanks to all who sat. I had to just watch because G+ never showed me a connection for the hangout. I submitted a question to the technical forum to see if there are any ideas/explanations. Hope to be able to join in next time.

Gassho,
William

Thanks. Have a great weekend.

Gassho,
Matt

Thank you everyone, including the Golfers of course,
Gassho
Myoku

Thanks for this sitting.
Gassho
Myozan

Thank you all for sitting together!

Gassho,
Shinka

Thank you all who sat and will sit gassho2

Sat. Thank you all. gassho1