May 16th-17th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

NOTE: KINHIN and first 10 minutes of 2nd ZAZEN OFF AIR. PLEASE 'SELF'-TIME.

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



LAST 20 MINUTES:



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

[Mp]

There it is .... and there I will be. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[RichardH]

will be here/there

Gassho Daizan

[Koshin]

Arriving

Gassho

[Ishin]

will sit with you all this weekend in Zen time
Gassho
C

[Myosha]

Participating.


Gassho,
Myosha

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo and everyone ... Google was being funny, but all good. =) Have a great weekend!

Gassho
Shingen

[Kyonin]

Thank you all.

Jundo got disconnected so we finished zazen and chanted the Verse of Atonement and the Four Bows.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Koshin]

Everything perfect as it is, have a great weekend

Gassho

[RichardH]

Thank you Kyonin!

Gassho Daizan

[Juki]

Thank you Jundo and Kyonin. That was a very nice Zazenkai. Thanks to all who sat live or who will sit later. Practice.

Gassho,
Juki

[Taikyo]

Thanks to all who sat, are sitting and will sit. Have a great weekend everyone - a lovely morning here in the UK
Gassho
Taikyo

[Sekishi]

Thank you all. Deep bows.

[Meishin]

Thank you.

Gassho
John

[Myosha]

Grateful thanks.

Super team-work. Truly there is no "I" in zazenkai, . . .oh, wait. . . .

"the only action"


Gassho,
Myosha

[Myoku]

Gassho and thank you everyone, lovely,
Myoku

[Myozan Kodo]

Thanks all. No where else to be...
Gassho
Myozan

[Ishin]

Thank you all who sat and will sit. Perhaps the answer to what happens when a Buddhist takes a selfie, is that she sits alone knowing all are sitting with no othr place to be with her.

Gassho
C

[Daitetsu]

Thanks a lot for your practice!

Gassho,

Daitetsu

[Byokan]

Thank you all!

Gassho,
Lisa

[Matt]

Will be sitting this one today. Gassho, Matt J

[Kantai]

Gassho!
Kantai

[Kokuu]

Thank you.


Andy

[Gi Shu-George]

Thank you all for this practice.
Gassho.
Gi Shu-George