August 30-31st, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Jundo

Published on 09-03-2013 11:58 PM Number of Views: 4678

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NOTE: OUR HEART SUTRA went SILENT FOR A BIT TODAY. PLEASE HEAR THE SILENT SOUND.

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 sit-a-long-able any time thereafter ...

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

http://youtu.be/jV0HeZU_hRE

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

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 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)

or

Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML)

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

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38 Comments

Mp - 08-31-2013, 01:37 AM
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Thank you everyone, was a wonderful sit. Have a great weekend.

Gassho
Shingen

Yugen - 08-31-2013, 01:38 AM
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Thank you all for sitting together past, present, and future!

Deep bows
Yugen

Myosha - 08-31-2013, 01:50 AM
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Lovely to see all.

Jundo' s fixing a broken door that won't close even though it's always open.

Three pounds of flax???

Gassho,
Edward

Taikyo - 08-31-2013, 07:24 AM
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To all who sat & will sit, thank you again for the inspiration of your practice.

Gassho
David

Genshin - 08-31-2013, 07:54 AM
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Good sit. Thank you Jundo, Yugen and everyone that sat and will sit. Have a great weekend.

Gassho
Matt

Myozan Kodo - 08-31-2013, 07:55 AM
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Thanks all. Have a great weekend.
Gassho
Myozan

Marla567 - 08-31-2013, 10:42 AM
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Thank you all for sitting together.

Gassho
Shinka

Matt - 08-31-2013, 11:34 AM
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Sitting this today. Gassho, Matt J

Anshu - 08-31-2013, 12:22 PM
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Me also sitting today (recorded version of course)

Risho - 08-31-2013, 03:05 PM
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Thank you everyone! Congrats Kyonin.. I can't even fathom running a marathon.

Gassho,

Risho

Heisoku - 08-31-2013, 05:45 PM
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Thank you Jundo and Gassho to everyone sitting.

pinoybuddhist - 09-01-2013, 05:39 AM
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Sat this morning with all of you. I had to stop and fix breakfast after the first kinhin round, but I decided to bring down the laptop figuring even if I couldn't join in the second round I could still finish the meal prep in time to at least join in the closing ceremony. But then my son came down in the middle of the second sitting and sat down at the breakfast table so I finally just bowed and logged off. It's all good though - I haven't sat in a zazenkai in ages and it feels good to do it again.

Rafael