December 22nd, 2012 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

DUE TO TECHNICAL 'NON-DIFFICULTIES', THE NETCAST SIGNAL VANISHES TODAY FOR A FEW MINUTES DURING OUR CEREMONY. PLEASE CHANT IN ONE'S HEART. WE ARE BACK IN TIME FOR SITTING.

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 7pm, Los Angeles 4pm (Friday night), London midnight and Paris 1am (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

http://youtu.be/AVa2U-YmLsI

FOR THOSE NOT ALREADY MEMBERS OF THE CIRCLE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO SIT LIVE WITH A CAMERA, INSTRUCTIONS ARE POSTED AT THIS LINK (http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?10200-How-to-Join-GOOGLE-for-Zazenkai). 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) (http://www.treeleaf.org/treeleaf_zazenkai_chant_book.pdf)

or

Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML) (http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?7032-Weekly-Monthly-Zazenkai-Chant-Book-is-Here)

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 gassho1

[Yugen]

I will have to sit this Zazenkai Saturday morning US time. Thanks to all who will sit -

Deep bows
Yugen

[RichardH]

Will be here/there.

Gassho, kojip

[Daijo]

I was hoping to make my return to the live sits tonight. Of course I was informed this morning that I might be operating "Dad's Taxi Service" tonight, so we'll see. Tomorrow we're visiting Bodhi Monastery again, and my wife usually tells me "That's enough Buddha for the day" so......I'll be here/there when I can.gassho2

[Mp]

I will be there live. :)

Gassho
Michael

[Dosho]

I'll be there.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Koshin]

count me in :)... but maybe just a black screen...
Gassho

[Myoku]

Hello everyone,
a rerun will be at 9:30 AM GMT at Google+ hangouts, I'll be streaming the original zazenkai video into the hangout via a second computer, everyone not being able to attend live is welcome to re-sit this with me at g+,
_()_
Myoku

[Jundo]

Thank you all for sitting.

Gassho, Jundo

[Kyonin]

I finally made it back! For a moment I thought I had to work until late, but managed to finish on time.

Thanks everyone for sitting.

And Merry Christmas!

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Koshin]

Thank you sitters :)

Have a great holidays

Gassho

[Dosho]

Thanks everyone...have a good holiday!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Mp]

Thank you everyone for the wonderful sit ... have a great holiday. :)

Gassho
Michael

[Myoku]

Thank you Jundo and everyone participating,
Gassho
Myoku

[Shujin]

Thank you, all, especially Myoku for motivating me to get out of bed on a Saturday morning and sit.

Gassho,
shujin

[Matt]

Was able to sit this today. Gassho, Matt

[adrianbkelly]

Thanks everyone! I've missed this!

[Heisoku]

It was good to sit this. Thank you Jundo and all sitting. Gassho.