March 17th, 2012 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

Hello All,

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME CHANGE IN NORTH AMERICA!!

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 midnight and Paris 1am (early Saturday morning)

... and to be 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 :

'REAL TIME' recorded 'ANY TIME' version link is here:
CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN

AUDIO ONLY DURING LAST FEW MINUTES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-gWZ7dWHOc&list=PL37DF608D2D927F58&index=1&feature=plpp_video

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!


Gassho, Jundo

[BrianL]

I'll be there!

[Kyonin]

I'll be there too! :)

[Dosho]

I'll be there three! :D

Gassho,
Dosho

[Yugen]

Hi all,
I am "on duty" at Great River Sangha this evening so I will be unable to sit alive.... I will sit the Zazenkai tomorrow (Saturday evening) US time. I will be back next Friday to join you live.

A deep bow,
Yugen

[Koshin]

I'll be there :) Hopping to see all of you :)

[Kaishin]

See you all then!

[Marek]

I'll be there and on G+.

Feel free to join!

:wink:

[Rich]

Am getting ready to sit with you

[jefftos]

Was only able to sit for a few minutes before being called in for work. Will likely have finish it on Saturday or Sunday (It's currently Friday evening for me). Was nice sitting with you all even if it was just for a few moments :D

[Dosho]

Thanks to Jundo and all sitters everywhere!

Deep bows!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Kaishin]

Gassho, Jundo and all Treeleafers throughout space and time!

Now I must go, I have a phonecall on Line 3 :P :P :mrgreen:

[Kyonin]

Thanks to Jundo and our friends at Tsukuba.

And thanks to all who sat/will sit. It was a wonderful Zazenkai evening for me.

And yes, the camera and the little elecrtonic song are part of zazen. :)

[Marek]

Thank you, Jundo

As always it was great to sit with you all :D

_/_

[Rich]

Didnt know where the twinkle twinkle little star came from

[Koshin]

Thank you very much Jundo :) I got surprised by the song but without noticing I was humming it :oops: :) . Have a great weekend

Gassho

[Myoku]

Gassho Jundo, everyone, thank you
Myoku

[Ekai]

Thanks everyone and have a great weekend!

Gassho,
Ekai/Jodi

[Heisoku]

Thank you Jundo and everyone.
The video timed out after 30 mins so I must have sat the first sit for an hour!
Oh well. Have a good weekend everyone.

[Jundo]

Thank you Jundo and everyone.
The video timed out after 30 mins so I must have sat the first sit for an hour!
Oh well. Have a good weekend everyone.

I just replaced the link to Justin.tv with Youtube (thank you, Dokan, for your help), and I believe that will solve many of the issues people have been having.

We'll try to figure out how to do this more smoothly in the coming weeks.

Gassho, J

[Risho]

Thank you everyone!

Gassho,

Risho

[Heisoku]

Thanks for the update Jundo and to Dokan and all for making all these connections possible. One day I may even understand how to use some of them(Google+)!

[Omoi Otoshi]

That didn't feel silly at all. You all felt very real.
I loved the background sound of the wind blowing, birds singing, water dripping, dog barking, stars twinkling.
Lovely sit. Lovely evening.
Thanks for sitting. Thank you everybody.

Gassho,
Pontus

[Omoi Otoshi]

(Thanks for YouTube)

[Nenka]

Oh awesome, this should work so much better!

I'm out of town right now, but I'll sit when I get back home.

Gassho

Jen

[andyZ]

Thank you to Jundo and everyone who made this sitting possible.

[pinoybuddhist]

Well at least this time it played for a few minutes. 8) I think my connection speed is slow that's why.

As Fugen likes to say, it's all good practice.

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Rafael

[gilles]

thX all

gassho
gilles :D

[Gi Shu-George]

Thank you all for this sitting. Gassho. Gishu. George

[Gary]

Thank you Jundo and all for my first Zazenkai,
Gassho
Gary

[Jiken]

Thanks Jundo, Treeleaf

[Myozan Kodo]

Thank you.
Gassho

[Jinyo]

thank you Jundo - and for 'seeing in the dark'.

Gassho

Willow

[Shujin]

Thanks, y'all. Youtube worked really well; it was a great improvement over the Justin.tv recordings.

gassho,
Shujin

[Hoyu]

I have some free time tomorrow to sit this Zazenkai :D

Gassho,
Hoyu

[Hoyu]

Thank you Jundo Sensei and all fellow sitters. Zazen radio was great :D
Youtube was wonderful to playback the recorded version. Much more stable than JustinTV(and ad free!).

Gassho,
Hoyu