October 30th, 2010 Friday/Saturday Zazenkai (NEW TIME!)

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW EARLIER SITTING TIME FOR THE LIVE NETCAST!

Hi,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE TODAY 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 ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at USTREAM:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sit-a-long-with-jundo

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 :

'REAL TIME' recorded 'ANY TIME' version link is here:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/10503887

OUR 90 MINUTE SITTING SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:

00:00 – 00:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English ONLY) 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 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 words of the Chants we will recite at the following link:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2231

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

Thanks for the sit everyone! :)

Gassho,
Dosho

deep bow, thanks everybody :)
_()_
Peter

Thank you everyone; here and there, who sat or are going to sit with this Zazenkai.
Gassho,
Don

Thanks everyone, have a wonderful weekend.

*gassho*

Gassho to each one of you sitting and to the rain, the winds and the birds too.

Shohei

Have a great weekend everyone.
A good start..
Gassho Nigel

Hello and thank you everyone who was sitting today. As usual thank you Jundo for your effort in making this available to us all.

Gassho

Joe

Had a good sit with y'all, despite my DSL sporadically disconnecting. This is also Ango. :twisted:

gassho,
Chris

Ha! I got up early and did the whole thing. I sure do get antsy during the second zazen though. :wink:

Hi everyone! :D
I just sat this week's zazenkai! Thanks to everyone who sit and who will sit :roll:

Have a good practice everyone!
gassho,
Jinyu

thank you all! wonderful sitting with all of you :)

Have a great day/night everyone :)

Gassho,

Cyril

I fully endorse the zazenkai sitting time to accommodate the locals, but I will probably have to do the recorded version, like I did today. Thanks!