August 16-17th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

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

http://youtu.be/pMXPngUh9lo

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

[Mp]

I will be there ... And welcome back Jundo. :)

Gassho
Shingen

[Kyonin]

I'll be there live [gassholook]

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Dosho]

I'll be here.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Daijo]

I think for this Sundays sitting group at the Bodhi tree Cafe, we will sit along with this weeks 90 minute zazenkai netcast. If I can sort out a computer in the zendo.

If there are no objections from Jundo, Taigu, or the sangha of course.

[Koshin]

Will be there, if there are no power outage due heavy rains

Gassho


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[Myosha]

Let us do it.


Gassho,
Edward

[anzan]

Looking forward to it!!

Anzan

[Geika]

I can't join on camera because my phone is being fixed, but I will probably sit live for a while. I have some friends over, though, so I'm not sure. Either way, I will be sitting with you all.

[Yugen]

I will be there!

Deep bows
Yugen

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo and everyone ... have a great weekend. :)

Gassho
Shingen

[Koshin]

Thank you, glad to see you again, have a great weekend everyone :)

Gassho

[Dosho]

Thanks everyone...deep bows.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Cumminjd]

Thank you everyone!

Gassho,

James

[Kyonin]

Glad to have you back, Jundo.

Thanks everyone who sat and will sit.

Have a lovely weekend.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Myoku]

Thank you everyone,
have a wonderful weekend,
Gassho
Myoku

[Ishin]

Thanks for sitting all.
Will join you in "zen" time
Gassho
Clark

[Kokuu]

Enjoyed sitting that although already too cold for shorts and t-shirts here!

Thank you!
Andy

[Hans]

Hello,

thanks to everyone for their practise. It's good to see the Tsukuba HQ again :)

Gassho,

Hans Chudo Mongen

[Jiken]

Thanks all.

Gassho,

Daido

[Daitetsu]

Thanks a lot for your practice!

Gassho,

Timo

[Kantai]

Will sit this evening.
Gassho. /Edward

[Marcelo de Valnisio]

I sat this morning. Thank you all for this.

Gassho.gassho1

[Daijo]

Sitting with my group tonight. Sunday was cancelled, so tonight will be a trial run with about 5 sitters.

[Jundo]

Sitting with my group tonight. Sunday was cancelled, so tonight will be a trial run with about 5 sitters.

An interesting experiment in sitting in one place and time with a group with folks around the world, no here and there. Let us know how the experiment goes.

Gassho, J

[Daijo]

We had a small group of three last night. I think they were very curious to see me walking into the "zendo" with laptop in hand. Once I explained my plans, they were very open to it. It was a very pleasant experience (despite the echo) that I hope to continue regularly. I do have to sort out some equipment issues as I borrowed my daughters lap top last night. She's starting college the week of labor day and taking that with her. As soon as I get it sorted, we will incorporate our sits with tree leafs sits. Unfortunately due the schedule and availability of the room, I wont be able to do it live. but, that's OK. Now is always now, no matter what anyone tries to tell you.