February 26th-27th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

Hello All,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast from 10am 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 on the following screen 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

EVENT PAGE:
https://plus.google.com/events/c2jrm...5odtf5ad8pauho

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]

Count me in, I will be there live. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[Anshu Bryson]

I'll be on the big silver bird between Indonesia and Australia, but I'll get a sneaky sit in on the plane, so I'll be 'with' you...

Gassho,
Anshu

-sat today-

[Doshin]

Plan to participate live or one way.

Anshu safe travels...love Australia...been their multiple times on month long camping trips to naturalize in the land of fascinating reptiles and exotic birds!

Gassho
Doshin
Sattoday

[Myosha]

Participating, "one-way"


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Joyo]

This is the only day I've worked all week, so when I got called in for overtime hrs I decided to take it, which means I'm working tonight till 10:30. I will be "practicing" along with you all as I am at work. Have a lovely zazenkai everyone.

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today

[Sekishi]

See you all soon, sneaky sitting at 20,000 feet, work practice, and all.

Gassho,
Sekishi

[Shinzan]

Thanks, everyone. Lovely to sit with you all.
_/st\_ Shinzan

[Onkai]

Thank you Jundo, Shingen and everyone else! Have a great weekend!

Gassho,
Laurie
SatToday

[Mp]

Thank you everyone for a wonderful sit, have a great weekend. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[Myosha]

Thanks to all.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Jika]

Thank you all.

Gassho
Jika
#sattoday

[Kyonin]

I sat this zazenkai this morning.

Thank you all.

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

[Washin]

Thank you everyone.

Gassho
Washin
just sat

[Kotei]

Thank you.

Gassho,
Kotei just sat with you and the stars and the sky and the trees and the big black woodpecker and his Xylophone.

[Tairin]

My first Zazenkai with this sangha. Sat with this today. Hope to be able to join one live in the near future.

Gassho
Warren

[martyrob]

Welcome Warren,

It was good to sit with you.

Thanks to everyone.

Martyn

Sat zazenkai today.

[Mp]

My first Zazenkai with this sangha. Sat with this today. Hope to be able to join one live in the near future.

Gassho
Warren

Nice to have you Warren. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[Byokan]

Thank you dear Sangha

Gassho
Byōkan
sat today

[Kokuu]

Thank you all so much for sitting with me. First time I have done a Zazenkai in a while and was lovely even if I did have to lie down for most of it.

After not hearing The Heart Sutra for a time too, the meaning seemed to stand out starkly: "Take experience for what it is and don't try to make it into anything!"

Wishing you all a good week

Gassho
Kokuu
#sattoday

[Matt]

Sitting this now.
Gassho
Matt