September 27-28th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

TODAY'S ZAZENKAI WILL BE OUTSIDE IN THE GARDEN, SITTING WITH THE FALL WEATHER. gassho1

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/IkFb3YtxkgI

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

[Juki]

I will be there live.

gassho,
william

[Dosho]

I will be your bell ringer. :)

Gassho,
Dosho

[Taikyo]

I will sit later but I can't promise in the garden at 4.30 am UK time
Gassho

David

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[Ishin]

How appropriate! I will be sitting in the woods with 12 crazy cubscouts. I will sit with you all Sunday night. Thanks to all for their/our practice.

Gassho C

[Myozan Kodo]

How wonderful to sit outside! Will sit tomorrow morning ... maybe outside too, if I can pick up the wifi. Nice weather at the moment.
Gassho
Myozan

[Mp]

I too will be there in the garden. :)

Gassho
Shingen

[Koshin]

Will be there live... but not outside... it has been heavy rain all this month.

Gassho.

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[MyoHo]

Thanks to my wonderful wife, the financial wizard that she is, we managed to find a way to get me a new laptop! It involves me quitting smoking and some other small sacrifices but there it is and so I will be able to participate once again!

How did we get to sitting outside for this Zazenkai? Did I miss anything? Great idea btw.

Gassho'

Enkyo

[Myosha]

In outside and out inside.

[Mp]

Thanks to my wonderful wife, the financial wizard that she is, we managed to find a way to get me a new laptop! It involves me quitting smoking and some other small sacrifices but there it is and so I will be able to participate once again!

How did we get to sitting outside for this Zazenkai? Did I miss anything? Great idea btw.

Gassho'

Enkyo


That is great news ... see you in the garden. :)

Gassho
Shingen

[Entai]

Will be sitting Sunday evening.
Gassho, bill

[Juki]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGvd1UPZ88

in the garden. This thread reminds me of one of my favorite movies of all time, Being There, with Peter Sellers.

Gassho,
William

[gwz]

I'll be there, live but invisible: for some reason I can't seem to convince Linux that my laptop has a video camera...

[Ed]

BEING THERE

"I just like to watch"

Great movie and book.

[Kyonin]

I will be there in the garden. Lovely idea :)

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Daijo]

I'll sit from 8 to 9. I'll have to complete the session tomorrow morning.

Thank you

[Genshin]

Sounds lovely. Will sit first thing Saturday morning (GMT).

How's the lawn Jundo? :)

Gassho
Matt

[Anshu]

I will sit at 9am for Paris, if there is no rain in a public park.
Gasshô

[odiedoodie]

I will be there.
Gassho
Jon T

[Juki]

Thanks to Jundo, Dosho and all who sat or will sit later. Gassho, William

[Mp]

Thanks everyone, was a great outdoor adventure. :) Have a great weekend.

Gassho
Shingen

[Koshin]

Thank you all...Metta

Gassho

[Heishu]

Thank you Jundo, Dosho, and everyone else. The outdoor setting was very nice.

Gassho,
Heishu

[Jiken]

Thank you Treeleaf

Gassho,

Daido

[Myosha]

Stunningly pretty moment.

Thank you.


Gassho,
Edward

[Dosho]

Thank you everyone.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Kyonin]

Technology is awesome. Not only we sit together, we are able to listen to birds and insects sing in the other side of the planet. And choppers and EVAs* too!

Amazing.

Thank you all who sat and will sit. Have a lovely weekend :)

Gassho,

Kyonin




*EVA (http://miotd.com/images/20080224.jpg)

[Taikyo]

Thank you all for your practice - it was great sitting in the open if not in the open but in opening. & thanks to all who will sit. I hope you all have a great weekend.

Gassho
David

[Genshin]

Enjoyed that. Thanks Jundo, Dosho and everyone that sat and will sit.

Gassho
Matt

[Myoku]

Thank you everyone,
Gassho
Myoku

[Myozan Kodo]

Thanks. A great spacious sitting.
Gassho
Myozan

[Dosho]

I think the helicopters detected an international network of people connected via the internet and decided to check it out. Then they realized we were just zennies and moved on. ;)

Gassho,
Dosho

[Mp]

I think the helicopters detected an international network of people connected via the internet and decided to check it out. Then they realized we were just zennies and moved on. ;)

Gassho,
Dosho

Nice!!!! :)

I thought they just had some HUGE dragon flies there in Tsukuba! [scared]

Gassho
Shingen

[Seishin the Elder]

At my Abbey this weekend, so I sat Saturday evening in my cell. Not a flowering garden, but a garden all the same!

Gassho,

Seishin-Kyrill

[adrianbkelly]

Thanks everyone & thanks Jundo for sharing your beautiful garden with us!

_/\_
Ade

[Anshu]

Thank you Jundo, Dosho and everyone who are seated. I could not sit in the garden, rain threatened. Out of the window, the neighborhood animals have made a singing contest with animals from a different continent ... great
Gasshô

[Risho]

Gassho,

Risho

[Daitetsu]

That was a nice Zazenkai - thanks a lot for your practice!

Gassho,

Timo

[Geika]

Thank you all. gassho1

[Sekishi]

Crows in my yard talked to crows in the Treeleaf garden - in a different time and space. Hunting dogs in the fields across the road barked and bayed, and dogs barked somewhere near Treeleaf. A helicopter flew over Jundo and a mosquito landed on my arm. All different, but never separate.

Thank you all for your practice. Wonderful!

Deep gassho,
Eric

[Ishin]

Thanks for sitting everyone. The Bodhi Tree leaf in the pagoda seems appropriate for the fall season and Treeleaf too!

[gassholook]

[Kaishin]

Thank you, Jundo, Dosho, and all.
Gassho, Kaishin

[Marcelo de Valnisio]

Very beautiful garden. I sat with you all today.

And thanks to the ants, spiders, helicopters and everything else ...

Thank you.

Gassho. gassho2

[Gi Shu-George]

Thank you all for your practice
Gassho
Gi Shu-George

[Heisoku]

Gassho to all sitting. Better late than never!

[Shujin]

Sat this yesterday. Thanks, y'all.

Gassho,
Shujin


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