September 18th-19th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Embodiment

[Jundo]

Dear All,

Please sit our Treeleaf Zazenkai for 90 minutes with Zazen, Heart Sutra and more:

10am Japan Saturday morning, NY 9pm, LA 6pm Friday night, London 2am and Paris 3am Saturday morning, or any time thereafter here:



https://youtu.be/c6kzLJeCQL0


Join live (with or without a camera & microphone) on Zoom at: TREELEAF Now (https://www.treeleaf.org/now/go.php?l=ssr) OR at DIRECT ZOOM LINK (https://zoom.us/j/4834831244), password (if needed): dogen

Gassho, Jundo

SatTodayLah



PS - There is no "wrong" or "right" in Zazen ... yet here is a little explanation of the "right" times to Bow (A Koan) ...



https://youtu.be/GR6POpsXh9Q

Chant Book is here for those who wish to join in: CHANT BOOK LINK (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?7032-Chant-Book-For-Weekly-and-Monthly-Zazenkai)

The other video I mention on Zendo decorum is this one, from our "Always Beginners" video Series:


Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (12) - Basic Zendo Decorum At Home
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?14884-Sit-a-Long-with-Jundo-Zazen-for-Beginners-%2812%29&p=189093#post189093

[Onka]

I will be sitting this afterwards for all people separated from loved ones due to Covid 19. My partner and I will doing a welfare check on our friend whose husband has been in hospital for some time (not Covid 19) because he's unable to have visitors to see how she's travellin'.
Gassho
Onka
Sat/LAH

[Yokai]

Lovely Onka, gassho1 to you both. Metta to your friends at this difficult time.

(I'm trying to spot the anarchy...Maybe "Stuff sitting live I'm off to help someone!")

Gassho, Chris satlah

[jonathon]

I will be there ‘live’. See you tomorrow ...

Gassho, Jonathon
SATLah

[Kyonin]

Thank you Jundo.

I'll be there live with instruments ready!

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Naiko]

Metta for your friends, Onka. I hope to sit live with you all, but I am pretty tired as I’ve been up since 3 am. I’d be mortified if I dozed off, toppled over and ended up on the Treeleaf blooper reel.
Gassho,
Krista
st

[Sekishi]

See you all soon.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat #lah

[Geika]

Joining live on YouTube.

Gassho

[Geika]

Thank you all. That was an excellent talk.

Gassho
Sat today, lah

[Naiko]

Thank you all!
Gassho,
Krista
st

[Hokin]

Thank you everyone for the practice.
And Jundo, indeed, thank you for the wonderful and very insightful talk...gassho2
It is always a pleasure to sit with you all.
May you all and all your beloved ones be well.

Gassho.
Hokin.
ST&LAH.

[Yokai]

Thanks Jundo, Kyonin and all for sharing zazenkai. Wonderful talk and a privilege to be with you all. gassho1

Tea time was a real blast - awesome banter! [morehappy]

Gassho, Chris satlah

[Bion]

Thank you all for sitting with me. Jundo, that talk was a really great reminder for me and I was absolutely absorbed listening to you! I loved seeing all of you, as always, and I appreciate all of you deeply!

[emoji1374] SatToday

[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo, Kyonin, and everyone. It was great to sit with everyone, and the talk made me see how to practice in different situations.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Sekiyuu]

Thank you everyone for sitting.

The mention of "flow" during the talk reminds me of cognitive flow state, a common topic in videogame design. Hopefully this is an interesting read:
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/166972/cognitive_flow_the_psychology_of_.php

Gassho,
Kenny
Sat Today, LAH

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[Tosei]

Thank you to all.

P

Sattoday

[Seikan]

Thank you Jundo, Kyonin, and all! Our weekly Zazenkai continue to be an important cornerstone of support, especially during this intensive practice period.

gassho2

Gassho,
Rob

-stlah-

[Jundo]

Here is the "mystery Soto monk" showing the ritual of taking off and hanging robes to attend to the toilet in a Soto monastery ... and it does not even contain the bowing and chanting portions and other rituals of entering the toilet and hand washing after, only the clothes removal.

From about 9:00 he shows it all together at full speed, but it still takes some time ... best not to be in a rush! [scared]

https://youtu.be/gqAatc6bSc0

Hallway floor washing in a Soto monastery ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/3755/33571507796_ae50548603_b.jpg

The "toework" ballet of the Morning Ceremony (Choka) at a large Soto monastery (this is bringing out the books for the "tendoku" ritual reading of the 600-fascicle Large Prajña Paramita Sutra (Dai Hannya Kyo), which involves shouting the title and volume number of the sutra, then quickly flipping through the sutra book itself. The purpose is a bit esoteric, much like the belief that simply praising the name of a Sutra equals the merit of reading the whole Sutra, much like those Tibetan prayer wheels where every turn of the wheel = a reading of the sutra inside).

https://youtu.be/De15EaR_irk

Gassho, J

STLah

[Inshin]

Here is the "mystery Soto monk" showing the ritual of taking off and hanging robes to attend to the toilet in a Soto monastery ... and it does not even contain the bowing and chanting portions and other rituals of entering the toilet and hand washing after, only the clothes removal.

From about 9:00 he shows it all together at full speed, but it still takes some time ... best not to be in a rush! [scared]

https://youtu.be/gqAatc6bSc0

Hallway floor washing in a Soto monastery ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/3755/33571507796_ae50548603_b.jpg

The "toework" ballet of the Morning Ceremony (Choka) at a large Soto monastery (this is bringing out the books for the "tendoku" ritual reading of the 600-fascicle Large Prajña Paramita Sutra (Dai Hannya Kyo), which involves shouting the title and volume number of the sutra, then quickly flipping through the sutra book itself. The purpose is a bit esoteric, much like the belief that simply praising the name of a Sutra equals the merit of reading the whole Sutra, much like those Tibetan prayer wheels where every turn of the wheel = a reading of the sutra inside).

https://youtu.be/De15EaR_irk

Gassho, J

STLah

Thank you for sharing more info on this. I can't recite Heart Sutra yet so I've been listening to the second video before sitting zazen. Fascinating! Now I know à little more of what's going on there :)
Gassho
Sat

[Bokugan]

Thank you Jundo, Kyonin and all.

Jundo, your talk really spoke to me and some things I have been thinking through. Thank you (...and I didn't feel it was too long at all!)

Gassho,

Ryan
Sat Today

[Tairin]

Thank you everyone. I sat with you this morning. Wonderful talk Jundo. That was a classic.

gassho2
Tairin
Sat today and lah

[gaurdianaq]

Just finished sitting along, and even managed to forget that it wasn't "live" for most of it so I'm going to count that as progress.

[Bion]

Just finished sitting along, and even managed to forget that it wasn't "live" for most of it so I'm going to count that as progress.

That is awesome!!! [emoji1] You were totally present while we were sitting it anyway. I could “see” you in one of the many invisible zoom squares [emoji6]

[emoji1374] SatToday lah

[Seikai]

Wonderful talk Jundo. Sat with you today on youtube.



Sat Today

[Juki]

Thank you everyone.

Gassho,
Juki

sat today and lah

[Shōnin Risa Bear]

_()_

gassho
shonin, who sat today and lah

[Seishin]

Thank you everyone [monk]

sat

[Eva]

Just finished sitting along, and even managed to forget that it wasn't "live" for most of it so I'm going to count that as progress.

I'm always forgetting it and waving and saying goodbyes . I prefer it this way .
Sat with all of you this morning .

Gassho,
eva
sattoday and LAH

[Kiri]

Thank you everyone! It's nice to be able to sit with you again!
Gassho, Nikolas
Sat/LaH

[Matt]

Sitting this one now. Gassho, Matt

[Kokuu]

Thank you all for sitting with me.

Gassho
Kokuu

[Risho]

thank you

Gassho

Risho
-stlah

[Margherita]

I managed only today to sit with the recording.
Thank you Jundo for your teaching, thank you Sangha for your effort.
Gassho,
Mags
ST

[Jakuden]

Sat with this today. Thank you everyone [emoji120][emoji120][emoji120]

Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday


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[Bokucho]

Sat this today, thank you all for being the embodiment of the practice. This is a very special place and I appreciate everyone involved who makes it so. Metta to you all, deep bows, and thank you for practice.

Gassho,

Josh
SatToday/LaH

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[Ryusoku]

Wonderful to sit with everyone on Saturday morning. Jundo's words rung true as I sat before my blinking computer screen connected to the tiny tiled ZoomZen faces. Thank you.

Gassho,

Brett.
SatToday.

[Tai Shi]

Thank you teacher for this lesson. Up until 9 yrs ago I did my share of washing dishes, cooking, laundry, and then death On May 15, again, Oct. 3, 2011, again April 2012, The Woman I love took over as she retired, even she visited Japan's gracious people took all hoshold duties, now I sit zazen in a chair, when I can straight back, and I feel arthritis in my hands, sinking into body, forgive me an old Buddhist.
Gassho
sat/ lah
Tai Shi

[Kotei]

Thank you everyone!
Gassho,
Kotei sta/lah today.

[Meitou]

Loved those videos, the ballet during the Heart Sutra was beautiful. Yours wasn't bad either Roshi! Thank you everyone.
Gassho
Meitou
Sattoday lah

[Washin]

Just finished sitting this. Thank you Jundo for the talk.
Thank you everyone for practicing together gassho2

Gassho,
Washin
Buddha typing Buddha :)
stlah

[Kaisho]

Hey just finished this sit. Glad to have sat with all of you fine folks.

Jundo thank you for the teaching as it validated some of the thoughts I had about treating simple things as spiritual acts.

Gassho

Sat Lah, Chelsea

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[Tai Shi]

I just sat Sunday Sit completely through in my straight back chair, and I made it to the Walking Meditation, the again to the end. I think I will buy a lay robe.
Gassho
sat / lah
Tai Shi