June 30th, 2012 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

Hello All,

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 1am and Paris 2am (early Saturday morning)

... and to be visible at the following link during those times and any time thereafter ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at GOOGLE+ IS HERE:
CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN


http://youtu.be/Wbcb_epjLfY

FOR THOSE NOT ALREADY MEMBERS OF THE CIRCLE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO SIT LIVE WITH A CAMERA, INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE POSTED FOR FUTURE WEEKS. WE ARE NOW LIMITED TO 10 INDIVIDUALS WITH CAMERAS, BUT ANY NUMBER CAN WATCH LIVE 'ONE WAY' AND SIT-A-LONG. IF JOINING WITH CAMERA, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR MICROPHONE IS MUTED:

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 about 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 Chants we will recite at the following link (PDF):

Chant Book (PDF) (http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=447&d=1341018471)

or

Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML) (http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?7032-Weekly-Monthly-Zazenkai-Chant-Book-is-Here)

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 gassho1

[Dokan]

Planning on being there!

Google+ released a new feature that I am testing so if you are on G+ please take a look:

https://plus.google.com/events/cbjnsc07rd56tte3m8l2m6hqpc0/116930448607190706458


Gassho,

Dokan

[Hoyu]

Looking forward to it! I'll be there live :)



Google+ released a new feature that I am testing so if you are on G+ please take a look:

https://plus.google.com/events/cbjnsc07rd56tte3m8l2m6hqpc0/116930448607190706458


Gassho,

Dokan
Interested in seeing what G+ is offering as a new feature but this link didn't work for me :(

Gassho,
Hoyu

[mrsedwards]

Planning on being there!

Google+ released a new feature that I am testing so if you are on G+ please take a look:

https://plus.google.com/events/cbjnsc07rd56tte3m8l2m6hqpc0/116930448607190706458


Gassho,

Dokan

worked for me!

[Dokan]

Hmm..maybe you aren't logged in to G+? Had my wife just try it and it seemed to work ok.

You can also maybe try just the events page instead of the direct link to the invite:
https://plus.google.com/b/116930448607190706458/events

Gassho,

Dokan

PS - Thanks for the testing...the invite is restricted so if you're not logged in it's working as intended. :)

[Hoyu]

Thanks for looking into it Dokan.
Perhaps it's because I'm trying to access the link through the web browser on my phone? All I know is that each time I tried I got this message..
The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

[adrianbkelly]

Will try it for the first time this week but, as it'll be 1am here, I'll definitely have to drop time & place!

_/\_
Ade

[RichardH]

Will be there/here.

Gassho, kojip

[Jundo]

Will try it for the first time this week but, as it'll be 1am here, I'll definitely have to drop time & place!

_/\_
Ade

Hi Ade,

You can also sit with the recorded version ... truly dropping thought of now and then, just the same as the "live" sitting. It is "live" too ... just in its own way. If you do get too tired during the live sitting, don't feel that you can't sit it later.

Gassho, J

PS- Dokan, does this new feature you discovered change the procedure for me tomorrow? I barely learned how to do this last week! :)

[adrianbkelly]

Hi Jundo,

I think that's what I'll do, otherwise I'll be headbutting the wall!

_/\_
Ade

[Dokan]

PS- Dokan, does this new feature you discovered change the procedure for me tomorrow? I barely learned how to do this last week! :)

Absolutely not! Proceed as normal. It is completely separate. I believe that people that accept the invite will get a pop up reminding them and there will be an option to click "Hangout"..but won't really know until tonight. But again, for you, nothing changes...

Thanks

Dokan

[Mp]

Thanks for testing ... works great for me. Will be live. :)

[Kaishin]

See you there!

[Kyonin]

I won't be able to sit tonight with you guys.

I am traveling and visiting my parents and they don't have connection at home. Will try to do sit an unplugged zazenkai in tonight.

Gassho.

[Jinyo]

Will be sitting recorded version

Gassho

Willow

[Dosho]

I'll be there.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Risho]

I'll be there

[Gary]

I think that's what I'll do, otherwise I'll be headbutting the wall
:)
Just finished 5 weeks of nightshifts, I'll sit early Saturday morning.

Gassho
Gary

[Kaishin]

Gassho! ..

[RichardH]

Thank you!


Gassho, kojip

[Shohei]

Full house!
I joined but got told i was the first one there...forgot about the sitter limit. I sat outside the zendo a bit tonight, but was still present for most of it.

Gassho
Shohei

[Hoyu]

Full house!
I joined but got told i was the first one there...forgot about the sitter limit. I sat outside the zendo a bit tonight, but was still present for most of it.

Gassho
Shohei
Same happend here Shohei! Dokan posted, on one of the forums, a download to prevent G+ from giving you the boot for being "idle". Sounds awesome(if you don't forget to install it like I did. Doh!).

Gassho,
Hoyu

[Risho]

Gassho,

Risho

[Dokan]

So the Event portion of the invite worked very well! Here's a couple screen shots of the notification:

On my phone:
449

And on the Google+ page:
448

Wondering if they'll implement the feature where it can be reoccurring.

By the way Jundo, you have "Follow my face." checked on your Logitech settings for your camera. It moves the camera focus on who is talking.

450

Thanks for the sit tonight everyone!

Gassho,

Dokan

[Dosho]

Thanks to all who sat, are sitting, or will sit...deep bows.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo and all who sat and will sit. It was wonderful. :)

[Koshin]

Thanks for such great sitting :)

Have a great weeend

Gassho

[Gary]

Awesome!

Deep gratitude to all.

Gassho
Gary

[Thane]

Hi everyone. I joined you all this morning (GMT) on the recorded version. It was great to sit with you all. I am off on holiday to a remote part of Scotland next week so doubt i will get a connection next week. So see you all in two weeks

Gassho

Thane

[Heisoku]

Thank you Jundo and all sitting.

[Ekai]

I will be sitting Sunday morning.

Gassho,
Ekai

[Myozan Kodo]

Hi,
Sat this morning. Thank you.
Gassho
Myozan

[Myoku]

Gassho, thank you everyone,
Myoku

[Yugen]

Greetings all,
Will sit the Zazenkai Sunday morning US Eastern time.

Gassho
Yugen

[Rich]

Sat Sunday morning which was nice cause I had more energy.
Thank you.

[Nenka]

I sat on Sunday, too. :TL:

Gassho

Jen

[Shujin]

"Caught up" with this tonight. Gassho.

[Jiken]

Just "caught up" on this sit too. Gassho

Daido