September 20-21st, 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 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk_OTO_px_M

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 will be there. :)

Gassho
Shingen

I will also be there.

Gassho,
William

Hi,
I'll be there tomorrow morning, GMT.
Gassho
Myozan

I'll be there Monday morning! [morehappy]

Gassho. gassho1

Will meet you there live :)

Gassho

Sent from Tapatalk 2

I'll be your bell ringer for this evening.

Gassho,
Dosho

EDIT: Kyonin will be graciously stepping in for me tonight as my wife is sick and I'll be watching the boys while she stops at urgent care after going to work today (when I told her not to!).

I'll be there live!

In via YT.


Gassho,
Edward

I'll be there Saturday morning (GMT).

It would be nice to sit in real-time with you guys one of these days.

Gassho
Matt

I am going to try to sit along live on G+ this week. Metta for my ISP. ^_^
Gassho,
Eric

I should be there live via YT tonight.

Gassho,
Heishu

Will be there there, sometime this weekend. Thanks to all who are, did, will sit :)
Gassho

C

I wanted to be there, it didn't work out, I will try for next week.

gassho,
Treena

Thank you, Jundo and all.

Hi all I came at the end there when I could, but I didn't see the normal video recorded version here on the site. Hoping to sit with it when I can. Perfectly imperfect; made me figure out how to join live.

Does anyone else NOT SEE the normal recorded version posted???


Nice to see all.
Gassho
C

Thank you everyone ... great way to end the week. Have a wonderful weekend. :)

Gassho
Shingen

Thanks to all who sat and will sit. My power went out during Kinhin and then again during the second Zazen. So, if I disturbed anybody by logging in during Zazen, I am sincerely sorry. Gassho, William

Don't worry William, everything perfect as it is, as always.. I had to stand up to attend something in the middle of 2nd Zazen... no problem, back to the cushion, all things as they are...

Much Metta everyone

Gassho

I am new to G+. I couldnt figure out how to join. I think I joined a few minutes late. It was fun. :)

Gassho, John

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Clark

Hi all I came at the end there when I could, but I didn't see the normal video recorded version here on the site. Hoping to sit with it when I can. Perfectly imperfect; made me figure out how to join live.

Does anyone else NOT SEE the normal recorded version posted???

Nice to see all.
Gassho
C

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Hi Clark,

Yeah, I was also here but not here for the live YT version. Don't know what went wrong but continued as if it was live but unseen. This is my best alternative to G+, too many boot offs when I have tried it before. Oh well, I am here or was here or something like that. Have a great weekend to everyone.

Gassho,
Heishu

Onsite YT simul-cast no show. Found transmission at Google+ website.

Thanks to all.


Gassho,
Edward

Quote:

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Originally Posted by drocloce

Onsite YT simul-cast no show. Found transmission at Google+ website.

Thanks to all.


Gassho,
Edward

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I think that's how I joined too I think.

Gassho, John

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Clark

Hi all I came at the end there when I could, but I didn't see the normal video recorded version here on the site. Hoping to sit with it when I can. Perfectly imperfect; made me figure out how to join live.

Does anyone else NOT SEE the normal recorded version posted???


Nice to see all.
Gassho
C

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Sorry about that. It is up now.

Gassho, J

gassho2

Heishu

gassho1 Thanks Jundo.. as it turns out I sat for a really "good" sit. I will do the Zazenkai this weekend.

Thank you all for your practice, to all who sat and will sit
Gassho
David

Thank you Jundo, Kyonin, and all that sat and will sit.

Gassho
Matt

Looking forward to sit with you all this saturday afternoon (swedish time).
Gassho
Edward

Thank you all who sat and will sit.

Have a lovely weekend :)

Gassho,

Kyonin

Thank you all for sitting together!

Gassho,
Shinka

Thank you Jundo and everyone sitting. Gassho.

Thank you Jundo and to all who sat and will sit. My speakers aren't working but I could see you, so I sat with silence.

Thanks again.

Myozan

I sat with you this morning. Thank you to all! Kyonin, it was lovely!

Gassho,
Kelly/Jinmei

Thank you Jundo and everyone sitting,
monkey mind here today, but thats how it is at times,
Gassho & have a wonderful weekend
Myoku

gassho1
Edward

Hi guys,

I'm sorry to report last G+ session completely fried my laptop. It seems it is beyond saving and because this poses a rather big financial problem for me/us, I will have no video comunication for some time. (I'm typing this on our old 2004 desktop). So accepting things as they are, joining Zazenkai, sittings, dokusan and all other live connections have become quite impossible for now. I will sit and follow the postings on the forum of course but other than that you will have to do without my preseance. I wll try and find a way to solve this but right now I can't see how. Very sorry about this happening during this great Ango period :crushed:.

Gassho

E.

Thanks, guys.

Gassho

Jen

Enkyo,

Sorry to hear ... technical difficulties can be frustrating at times. But know whether you see us, or we see you - we still sit together. :)

Gassho
Shingen

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Originally Posted by Enkyo

Hi guys,

I'm sorry to report last G+ session completely fried my laptop. It seems it is beyond saving and because this poses a rather big financial problem for me/us, I will have no video comunication for some time. (I'm typing this on our old 2004 desktop). So accepting things as they are, joining Zazenkai, sittings, dokusan and all other live connections have become quite impossible for now. I will sit and follow the postings on the forum of course but other than that you will have to do without my preseance. I wll try and find a way to solve this but right now I can't see how. Very sorry about this happening during this great Ango period :crushed:.

Gassho

E.

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Have just finished sitting with the recording.
As always, thanks a lot for your practice!

Sorry to hear about your technical problems, Enkyo! Hope you find a solution soon!

Gassho,

Timo

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Originally Posted by Enkyo

Hi guys,

I'm sorry to report last G+ session completely fried my laptop. It seems it is beyond saving and because this poses a rather big financial problem for me/us, I will have no video comunication for some time. (I'm typing this on our old 2004 desktop). So accepting things as they are, joining Zazenkai, sittings, dokusan and all other live connections have become quite impossible for now. I will sit and follow the postings on the forum of course but other than that you will have to do without my preseance. I wll try and find a way to solve this but right now I can't see how. Very sorry about this happening during this great Ango period :crushed:.

Gassho

E.

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A lesson in Impermanence, Enkyo. You are still sitting with us, quite clearly visible in all our hearts.

We had a short Heart Sutra Memorial Service awhile back for all our old, burned out computers and equipment at Treeleaf. They kept this place going.

Gassho, J

Thanks everyone!

_/\_
Ade

Yes, thank you guys. Impermenance! Thank heavens for impermanence! Everything changes so also this situation :D

Gassho

Enkyo

Thank you all!

Gassho
Björn



Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk - now Free

Thank you, Jundo and everyone sitting.
Also, thank you to my cat/sitting partner, Midnight, for demonstrating stillness to me yet again.

Deep bows (and deeper purrs) to all.
Bill

Thank you, all. Your practice is greatly appreciated.

Gassho
Andy

Than you all for this sitting
Gassho
Gi Shu--George

Gassho,

Risho

Thank you to all who sit. gassho1