November 27th, 2010 Friday/Saturday Zazenkai

[Jundo]

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE CHANGED TO AN EARLIER SITTING TIME A FEW WEEKS AGO FOR THE LIVE NETCAST!

Hi,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE TODAY 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 ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at USTREAM:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sit-a-long-with-jundo (http://http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sit-a-long-with-jundo)

But FEAR NOT if not possible for you to join 'live' in your location at those times, as the entire sitting is recorded in 'REAL TIME' and available for full participation 'on demand' at any time after that, no different from the 'live' sitting :

'REAL TIME' recorded 'ANY TIME' version link is here:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11105010 (http://http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11105010)

OUR 90 MINUTE SITTING SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:

00:00 – 00:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English ONLY) 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 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 words of the Chants we will recite at the following link:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2231 (http://http://www.treeleaf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2231)

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!

[Engyo]

Thank you to all who sat (there and here) as well as those who will sit.
Gassho,
Don

[Myoku]

Thanks everybody for the pratice. I'm happy to see these two accompanying you again, Jundo, good to see they stick with it,
_()_
Peter

[Shinko]

It is wonderful to have others sitting too .. thank you all for a wonderful zazenkai!

[RodAbbott]

Couldn't sit the whole time day, but am glad and thankful to sit with others. Gassho, Rod

[Seishin the Elder]

It was a wonderful and thankful sit with everyone. It is so fortunate to have this opportunity and for it, I am truely thankful throughout the year.

Gassho,

Seishin Kyrill

[Nenka]

Well, I did part of this week's zazenkai . . . overslept after too much holiday weekend indulgence. :lol:


Thanks everybody for the pratice. I'm happy to see these two accompanying you again, Jundo, good to see they stick with it,
_()_
Peter

Can I ask what their names are? They're getting to be familiar faces and I'd hate to keep thinking of them as The Lady in the Pink Sweater and The Guy. :wink:

[Heisoku]

Joined in without an internet connection!
Very strange without the accompaniament!

Am connected again so look forward to next week!

Gassho Nigel

[Jundo]

Well, I did part of this week's zazenkai . . . overslept after too much holiday weekend indulgence. :lol:


Thanks everybody for the pratice. I'm happy to see these two accompanying you again, Jundo, good to see they stick with it,
_()_
Peter

Can I ask what their names are? They're getting to be familiar faces and I'd hate to keep thinking of them as The Lady in the Pink Sweater and The Guy. :wink:

Hi,

That's been Gina from the U.S. in the pink sweater, and Amin from Iran.

Gassho, Jundo

[Nenka]

That's been Gina from the U.S. in the pink sweater, and Amin from Iran.

Gassho, Jundo

Ah! Thanks for the introduction. :)