July 16th-17th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - "Dancing Exits" Zazenkai

[Jundo]

We continue our Heart Sutra dancing all this month ... (details below)


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/HCIXXsee0Ik

However, "one way" live sitters are encouraged to come into the Zoom sitting, and just leave the camera and microphone turned off: 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

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 VERSE OF ATONEMENT & FOUR VOWS
01:30 - 01:45(?) Informal Tea Time (All Welcome)

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

I also recommend a little Talk on why small rituals and procedures are so cherished in the Zendo:


SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Small Things in the Zendo
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?18494-SIT-A-LONG-with-Jundo-Small-Things-in-the-Zendo

[Jundo]

Our Hannya Shingyo/Heart Sutra today is a very special mash-up of Vocaloid Hatsune Miku ...


Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is the first Japanese Vocaloid2 in the Vocaloid2 Character Vocal Series, the third Japanese Vocaloid created by Crypton Future Media, and is the seventh Vocaloid to have appeared overall; released on August 31, 2007. She is considered as the most popular and well known Vocaloid and the first to become a pop idol. The data for the voice was created by sampling the voice of Saki Fujita (藤田 咲, Fujita Saki), a Japanese voice actress.

Crypton had the idea to release Miku as "an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost."[3][4] When KEI illustrated Miku, he was asked to draw Miku as an android and a color scheme to go off of (based on YAMAHA synthesizer's signature blue-green color). Crypton also provided KEI her detailed concepts, however, Crypton says it was not easy to explain what a "Vocaloid" was like to him, and KEI says he could not create an image of a "singing computer" at first, as he did not even know what a "synthesizer" was. It took him more than a month. [5] The digital design on Miku's skirt and boots are based off synthesizer program colours and the bars represent the actual bars within the program, following Crypton's idea. Part of her design seems to be based on Yamaha's keyboard model DX-100

... over the dance track Astronomia 2K19 by Stephan F ...

https://soundcloud.com/planetdancemusic/stephan-f-astronomia-2k19-extended-mix

... featuring the Ghanian Pall Bearers ... not to be missed ...


Dancing Pallbearers, also known by a variety of names, including Dancing Coffin, Coffin Dancers, Coffin Dance Meme, or simply Coffin Dance, are a Ghanaian group of pallbearers who are based in the coastal town of Prampram in the Greater Accra Region of southern Ghana, although they perform across the country as well as internationally. The founder and leader of the group is Benjamin Aidoo. They are locally referred to as Nana Otafrija Pallbearing and Waiting Service or Dada awu. ...


https://youtu.be/BrR0ZWWC1Bg

A story about them ...

https://youtu.be/EroOICwfD3g

Gassho, J

STLah

[Bion]

Our Hannya Shingyo/Heart Sutra today is a very special mash-up of Vocaloid Hatsune Miku ...



... over the dance track Astronomia 2K19 by Stephan F ...

https://soundcloud.com/planetdancemusic/stephan-f-astronomia-2k19-extended-mix

... featuring the Ghanian Pall Bearers ... not to be missed ...




https://youtu.be/BrR0ZWWC1Bg

A story about them ...

https://youtu.be/EroOICwfD3g

Gassho, J

STLah

Well, this is definitely going to be exciting [emoji1]

[emoji1374] SatToday

[Washin]

I will be there with the instruments ready and my dancewear on :)gassho1

Gassho
Washin
stlah

[Bion]

Thank you everyone for another opportunity to be together and sit! I appreciate you all.

[emoji1374] SatToday

[Seikan]

Thank you all for coming together to practice. It's always a pleasure to sit with you. gassho1

Gassho,
Seikan

-stlah-

[Anchi]

Lovely Zazenkai gassho1

It is lovely to have the recording available so I could sit with you all.
Thank you for the great talk.

Thank you everyone. gassho2

Gassho

[Heiso]

I've started sitting this on demand, thank you everyone.

Gassho,

Heiso
StLah

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[Naiko]

Last night, sitting with you all and receiving Jundo’s teaching about our dance with impermanence, I felt such gratitude for Treeleaf. Thank you all for being here.
Gassho,
Naiko
st lah

[Tairin]

Thank you everyone. I sat and danced with you all this morning.

Thank you for your practice!

gassho2
Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Onkai]

Thank you, everyone for another lovely zazenkai.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Ippo]

Great to sit this with you all. Very nice topic for the talk.

Gassho,

Ippo

SatToday

[Timchenko_Oleg]

Thanks for the subtitles in Russian
[хлопки]

gassho1

SatToday

[Jundo]

Thanks for the subtitles in Russian
[хлопки]

gassho1

SatToday

Thanks to Youtube. I am sure that sometimes they are very funny! [happy]

Gassho, J

STLah

[Timchenko_Oleg]

Thanks to Youtube. I am sure that sometimes they are very funny! [happy]

Gassho, J

STLah

:)

[Kotei]

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

[Seishin]

Thank you all. Love them Ghanaians, way to go.

Sat

[Jundo]

... way to go.



I see what ya did there! :encouragement:

Gassho, J

STLah

[Yokai]

Thanks to all

Sat offline while practicing "How to be Sick" ;)

Gassho, Yokai sat/lah

[Onkai]

Hope you feel better soon, Yokai.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Kiri]

Thank you everyone!
Gassho, Nikolas
Sat/Lah

[Bokucho]

Wonderful Zazenkai, sat along with the recording this afternoon. Great to see so many people and practice alongside at a different time.

Gassho,

Bokuchō
SatToday/LaH

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[Kokuu]

Thank you all!

Gassho
Kokuu