September 26th-27th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Kyonin]

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 mornin, Mexico City 7pm (Friday night)

... 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,

Kyonin

[Jundo]

Thank you Kyonin, who will handling everything this week ... LIVE FROM MEXICO!!!!

I would also like to welcome Mr. K., the Japanese fellow who has been sitting in Tsukuba with us the last few weeks. He is going to try "two way" for the first time, although if he can't figure it out, it will be one way. I told him both are same ONE-TWO WAY.

Gassho, Jundo

[Mp]

Wonderful Kyonin ... I will be there for your debut. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[Myosha]

Participativo.


Gassho,
Myosha

[Kaiku]

I hope to make it live, if not then I will see you all on the recorded.

Gassho
Bobby

[Josan]

I will sit with you all a day later

Kyonin

Gassho,
David

[jeff_u]

I will be sitting later that evening. Thanks Kyonin!

Gassho,
Jeff

[Anshu Bryson]

I had a connectivity issue last week, but will be their 'live' whether I can connect or not; look forward to seeing you all.

Gassho,

Bryson

[Shinzan]

I'll be there. Glad to support that smiley-faced Kyonin.
_/\_ Shinzan

[Daijo]

I'm going to sit one way, because I will have to exit early. I'd rather leave the limited "Two Way" seating for those who can stay for the entire time.

Gassho,

Daijo

[Jishin]

Will sit live or not.

Gassho, Jishin

[Ishin]

See you all then!
Gassho
C

[Meishin]

Will sit with the recording. Thank you, Kyonin.

Gassho
John

[Dosho]

I'll be here.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Kyonin]

Hi guys!

Getting ready for Zazenkai, but there's a big storm now. Power might fail, so please be patient if I have to begin a little later or if I suddenly disappear from the Hangout.

Dosho, please be ready to take over.

Hopefully the storm will pass before beginning.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Mp]

Sounds good Kyonin ... fingers crossed ... and legs! =)

Gassho
Shingen

[Koshin]

Sounds good Kyonin ... fingers crossed ... and legs! =)

Gassho
Shingen

Haha...ready to rock!!

Gassho

[Daijo]

Thank you Kyonin and everyone who sat. I was with you all one way until the end of Kinhin.

Gassho,

Daijo

[Koshin]

Thank you all...have a great weekend!!!

Gassho

[Mp]

Wonderful job Kyonin and Dosho, thank you ... was great to see a full house and to sit with you all. Have a great night and weekend everyone. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[Ishin]

Thank you very much all. Kyonin, you did wonderfully. Dosho Thank you. Thanks to all sitting with this, and your practice.
Gassho
C

[Anshu Bryson]

Thanks all, particularly Kyonin and Dosho; it looked like a full house

Gassho,

Bryson

[Kyonin]

Thank you guys!

And a very special thanks to Dosho for being Ino. I totally forgot to ask him, but he is a very cool guy and saved this zazenkai!

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Jishin]

Thank you all. Great weekend to all and to your kitty Kyonin.

Gassho, Jishin

[Sekishi]

Thank you Kyonin and Dosho. You guys rock! Thank you all for your practice! You guys and gals and others all rock too! ^_^
Gassho,
Sekishi

[Joyo]

Kyonin, I am sure you did a wonderful job. I may have a chance to sit for part or the whole recorded zazenkai this weekend. Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Gassho,
Joyo

[Taikyo]

My dear gentle friend Kyonin,

Sorry I could join you live but sat with you and all on your first Zazankia as host. A joy well done I think!

With a bow to all

Love & Deep Bows

Zenho Taikyo

[Jika]

Thanks a lot to Kyonin, Dosho, and all who sat.

Seeing the same dance in a different timing let me understand how important that is, and how difficult to learn.
I had never thought about that.
Thank you very much.

Deep bows,
Danny

[Josan]

Thanks to Kyonin and Dosho and everyone ,

Gassho, David

[Myosha]

Thanks to all.


Gassho,
Myosha

[Hotetsu]

Hi Kyonin,
I wil be sitting zazenkai today. Last night I had a freemason meeting and wasn't able to sit :-(.

Gassho
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[Matt]

Sitting this one now. Gassho, Matt J

[Risho]

Thank you everyone!

Kyonin, (you may have already mentioned this, but I forgot), what's the name of your little Buddha? What a cute kitty!

Gassho,

Risho

[Heisoku]

Thank you Kyonin and Dosho and everyone sitting this.
Gassho
Heisoku.

[Meishin]

Thank you Kyonin, Dosho, and everybody.

Gassho
John

[Myoku]

Thank you Kyonin and everyone sitting,
Gassho
Myoku

[Geika]

I have been moving, and I will soon have no Wi-Fi service. I will sit with the recorded versions as often as I can for this next month while I wait for my apartment to be ready, but I am mostly limited to a shared data plan, which YouTube eats for breakfast. So, still sitting with you all, just whenever I can. I will be doing zazenkai without the computer on Fridays if there's no other option. The forum itself is pretty easy on data, so I'll be around.

Gassho and gratitude

[Jundo]

I have been moving, and I will soon have no Wi-Fi service. I will sit with the recorded versions as often as I can for this next month while I wait for my apartment to be ready, but I am mostly limited to a shared data plan, which YouTube eats for breakfast. So, still sitting with you all, just whenever I can. I will be doing zazenkai without the computer on Fridays if there's no other option. The forum itself is pretty easy on data, so I'll be around.

Gassho and gratitude

Your with us, Amelia, and we are all moving with you!

Gassho, J

[Kantai]

Thank you Kyonin, Dosho, the cat and everyone else!

Gassho
Kantai

[Daitetsu]

Muchas gracias, Kyonin!
(Beautiful cat!)

Have a great week everyone!

Gassho,

Daitetsu

[Kyonin]

Thank you all for you kind comments

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Daiyo]

Just sat this one.

Thanks to everyone.

Gassho,
Walter.

[Gi Shu-George]

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

[Kaiku]

With the next Zazenkai coming up tomorrow I realized I forgot to post on here once I sat this one. I just wanted to say wonderful Kyonin and Dosho. Thank you very much.

Gassho
Bobby

[Byokan]

Thank you dear Sangha,

Gassho
Lisa
sat today

[RichardH]

Gassho and thank you....


Daizan

sat today