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Thread: April 25th-26th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

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    April 25th-26th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

    Re-MINDer: Our Heart Sutra today will be the be music by our old member Will.

    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




    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
    Last edited by Jundo; 04-26-2014 at 01:42 AM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Hi,

    Our Heart Sutra today will be music by our old member Will (Hi Will!). Our Japanese guests called to say they could not come today, and the version by Gary Dyson I was going to play only gave silence when I hit play (perhaps the most profound Heart Sutra of all)!

    Here is a link to Will's lovely interpretation ... This always just carries me away when I hear ...

    http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=6273880

    Gassho, Jundo
    Last edited by Jundo; 04-26-2014 at 01:49 AM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Mp
    Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Jundo View Post
    Hi,
    Hello! =)

    Also, I will be at zazenkai live.

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    I will be there live!

    Gassho,

    Kyonin
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    I will be there live.

    Gassho,
    Juki
    "First you have to give up." Tyler Durden

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    I'll be there/here

    Gassho Daizan

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    I will not be able to make it tonight due to family duties.

    Gassho,
    Dosho

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    Out of town tonight .... will sit/dance with you tomorrow night.

    Gassho

    Sent from Tapatalk 2
    Thank you for your practice

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    Participating.


    Gassho,
    Myosha
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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    Treeleaf Priest / Engineer Sekishi's Avatar
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    Apr 2013
    Location
    Virginia, USA
    Weather and Internet willing (big storms rolling through tonight), I will be there.

    Head nod and deep bows,
    Sekishi
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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    Member Roland's Avatar
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    Location
    Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium
    Most probably participating

    Gassho,

    Roland

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    Joyo
    Guest
    I would love to be there, but it does not work for me tonight. Will be there/not there with you all.

    Gassho,
    Joyo

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    Mp
    Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Joyo View Post
    I would love to be there, but it does not work for me tonight. Will be there/not there with you all.

    Gassho,
    Joyo
    Whether here or there ... you are with us Joyo. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Joyo
    Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Shingen View Post
    Whether here or there ... you are with us Joyo. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen
    Thank you my dharma brother

    Gassho,
    Joyo

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    Mp
    Guest
    Thank you Jundo and everyone for sitting and having a Heart Sutra dance. =) Have a great weekend.

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Always wonderful to sit with all of you. Thank you all for your practice.

    Gassho,
    Juki
    "First you have to give up." Tyler Durden

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    Thank you, everyone.

    Gassho Daizan

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    Treeleaf Priest / Engineer Sekishi's Avatar
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    Apr 2013
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    Virginia, USA
    Raindrops fell on the roof. Bells rang in Mexico. Crows called in Japan. Where are those who sat?

    Thank you all for your practice.

    Deep bows,
    Sekishi
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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    Member Roland's Avatar
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    Location
    Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium
    Thank you all for another wonderful sitting...

    Gassho

    Roland

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    I sat in Victoria Point in Queensland, Australia. It was my first time sitting with Treeleaf in real time and I enjoyed it very much.

    I confess to having a bit of a bop to the Heart Sutra. No-one was around to tell me not to so....

    Thanks, everybody.

    Gilly

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    I sat in Victoria Point in Queensland, Australia. It was my first time sitting with Treeleaf in real time and I enjoyed it very much.

    I confess to having a bit of a bop to the Heart Sutra. No-one was around to tell me not to so....

    Thanks, everybody.

    Gilly
    I bopped too!
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Mp
    Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    I sat in Victoria Point in Queensland, Australia. It was my first time sitting with Treeleaf in real time and I enjoyed it very much.

    I confess to having a bit of a bop to the Heart Sutra. No-one was around to tell me not to so....

    Thanks, everybody.

    Gilly
    I found my feet were doing a little jig as well ... was hard not too. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shingen View Post
    I found my feet were doing a little jig as well ... was hard not too. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen
    No reason not to dance, every reason to dance the Heart Sutra.

    Emptiness is Great Dance!

    Gassho, J
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Mp
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jundo View Post
    Emptiness is Great Dance!
    Love it Jundo, thank you. And yes, every moment is a great moment to dance. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Treeleaf Priest / Engineer Sekishi's Avatar
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    I danced with every part of me not on camera - the tree frogs, the great ocean, the moon and all the stars and planets. And my feet, definitely my tapping feet!
    Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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    Thanks to all who sat, are sitting and who will sit.I had to have a bop around with the heart sutra, thanks for that Jundo.
    Gassho
    Tailyo

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    Hi all,
    Sat this morning with you.
    Thanks and Gassho,
    Myozan

    PS Rap Sutra, anyone?


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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    Thank you all for sitting together.

    Gassho,
    Shinka

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    One world, one love, one zazenkai.

    Thank you all who sat/will sit.

    Gassho,

    Kyonin
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    Thanks to all who sat and will sit. Also enjoyed the chant. Gilly, knock yourself out in Queensland.
    And good night Wil Barry wherever you are. Hope to see you back at Treeleaf someday.

    gassho, Shokai, still learning the way and knowing nothing.
    合掌,生開
    gassho, Shokai

    仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

    "Open to life in a benevolent way"

    https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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    Thanks to all.


    Gassho,
    Myosha
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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    Thank you everyone,
    Gassho
    Myoku

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    That was a nice zazenkai - thanks to all!

    Gassho,

    Daitetsu
    no thing needs to be added

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    Thank you.

    Gassho,

    Risho

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    Thank you all sitters now and then.

    Gassho
    Thank you for your practice

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    Thank you. Lovely as always.

    Gassho
    Andy

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    Going to sit this one tonight. Gassho, Matt J

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