Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai
If you’d like to join the sangha for practice, at Treeleaf we offer weekly zazenkai (zazen meetings), where we formally practice together.
Our weekly zazenkai led by Jundo Roshi, our principal teacher and founder, is held every Friday evening (US time) or Saturday very early morning (EU time). The format of the meeting is as follows:
15′ Ceremony (Heart Sutra in English and Dedication)
30′ Zazen
10′ Kinhin
30′ Zazen
5′ Verse of Atonement and Four Vows
15′ Informal tea time (all welcome)
If you live in Europe, we offer a zazenkai on Sunday mornings that lasts approximately 75 minutes. The format of this meeting is as follows:
30′ Zazen (Verse of the robe at the end)
10′ Kinhin
20′ Zazen
15′ Ceremony (Heart Sutra, Verse of Atonement, Four Vows)
15′ Informal tea time (all welcome)
For this zazenkai, we invite you, if you have a rakusu or Okesa, to not put them on before joining, as we recite the Robe verse together at the end of the first sitting period.
NEXT WEEKLY ZAZENKAI
Weekly zazenkai: For Ubasoku Charles Tai Shi Taylor
We will sit this Zazenkai, and offer our Sutra Chanting, to our friend, Ubasoku Charles Tai Shi Taylor, who has left this visible world. A poem by Tai Shi …
I sat twice in cold May crisp
Air, beneath my window,
Much happens as birds wake
To song, life moves me into life
More of my tea, which I shall warm
Again, flavor nearly lost in Zazen
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