February 4th, 2012- OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI!

[Jundo]

Dear All,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE 8am to noon Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 6pm to 10pm, Los Angeles 3pm to 7pm (Friday night), London 11pm to 3am and Paris midnight to 4am (early Saturday morning)) ... and visible at the following link during those times ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at JUSTIN.TV:
CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN

http://www.justin.tv/treeleafzen (http://http://www.justin.tv/treeleafzen)

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 . Just click then on the links below:

THE 'REAL TIME, ANY TIME' recorded version is divided into 3 parts as follows (click on the links) :



00:00 - 00:50 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA / SANDOKAI IN ENGLISH) & ZAZEN
00:50 - 01:00 KINHIN
01:00 - 01:30 ZAZEN
01:30 - 01:50 KINHIN
ZAZENKAI PART I LINK:
http://justin.tv/treeleafzen/b/307459868

01:50 - 02:30 DHARMA TALK & ZAZEN
02:30 - 02:40 KINHIN
TALK & ZAZEN PART 2 LINK:
http://justin.tv/treeleafzen/b/307460454

02:40 - 03:15 ZAZEN
03:15 - 03:30 KINHIN
03:30 - 04:00 METTA CHANT & ZAZEN, VERSE OF ATONEMENT, FOUR VOWS, & CLOSING
http://justin.tv/treeleafzen/b/307460651



Our Zazenkai consists of our chanting the 'Heart Sutra' and the 'Identity of Relative and Absolute (Sandokai)' in English (please download our Chant Book at the link below), some full floor prostrations (please follow along with me ... or a simple Gassho can be substituted if you wish), a little talk by me ... and we close with the 'Metta Chant', followed at the end with the 'Verse of Atonement' and 'The Four Vows'. Oh, and lots and lots of Zazen and walkin' Kinhin in between!

Please download and print out the Chant Book (PDF) at the following link:

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

I STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT YOU POSITION YOUR ZAFU ON THE FLOOR IN A PLACE WHERE YOU ARE NOT STARING DIRECTLY AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN, BUT CAN GLANCE OVER AND SEE THE SCREEN WHEN NECESSARY. YOUR ZAFU SHOULD ALSO BE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE COMPUTER SCREEN WHILE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE ZAFU FOR THE CEREMONIES, AND HAVE ROOM FOR BOWING AND KINHIN.

ALSO, REMEMBER TO SET YOUR COMPUTER (& SCREEN SAVER) SO THAT IT DOES NOT SHUT OFF DURING THE 4 HOURS.

I hope you will join us ... an open Zafu is waiting. When we drop all thought of 'here' 'there' 'now' 'then' ... we are sitting all together!

Gassho, Jundo

[Kaishin]

_/_ Will be sitting this one recorded. Gassho!

[Dosho]

I'll be there.

Gassho,
Dosho

[RichardH]

Will be there this evening (morning)



Gassho. Kojip.

[Marek]

With two cups of strong coffee before but I will be there/here.

Gassho,
Marek

[Kyonin]

I'll be there!

[Hoyu]

I'll be there for the first part of it. Looking forward to sitting with you all!

Gassho,
Hoyu(John)

*edit*
Just noticed the start time is different for the 4hr(still new to doing it live vs recorded) :oops:
I'll be joining after dinner with my family :D

[Hoyu]

Thank you Jundo Sensei and all fellow sitters. As usual I can never sit the whole 4 hours. We always have a tight schedule and I need to be around to help with the kids.

I'd like to extend a special thank you to Dosho and Kyonin for helping Beth(our visitor) out!

Gassho,
Hoyu(John)

[RichardH]

Thank you.




Gassho, Kojip.

[Kyonin]

Thank you Jundo. It was a very nice Zazenkai. Please tall Mr. K he rocks!

@Dosho: thanks for takign care of Beth on the chat. Hope she comes and joins.

@Hoyu: I had to close the hangout. Some guy joined and he was being too noisy. Sorry for not letting you know.

Thanks all who sat/will sit!

[Dosho]

My thanks to Jundo and all who sat with us live, including a woman named Beth who seemed to happen upon the live sit by accident, but seemed very interested in what we were doing. I hope she comes to the forum!

Deep bows to all who participate, whenever or wherever, they may be.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Marek]

Thank you Jundo so much and thank you online sitters ! It was nice to sit with you all.

Gassho

[gilles]

fantastic start of the day :)
thX jundo

[Heisoku]

Thank you Jundo and all sitting.

Gassho

[Myozan Kodo]

Sat this afternoon. Thank you and gassho.
Myozan

[Dustin]

Thanks all.

Gassho,
Dustin