• June 13th-14th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

    NOTE: GOOGLE HAD SOME TECHNICAL NON-PROBLEM THIS WEEK WITH ITS RECORDING, SO I AM POSTING A RE-SIT OF A PRIOR WEEK TOO. HOWEVER, IT WAS NICE TO SEE A FULL HOUSE THIS WEEK, AND THANK YOU FOR THE LOVELY SIT.THIS SITTING WAS DEDICATED TO TROY'S MOTHER-IN-LAW AND FAMILY, ALL ALL FOLKS IN LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES TODAY.

    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


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4253suhNXxc
    http://youtu.be/hbJR098m3mk

    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
    This article was originally published in forum thread: June 13th-14th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai started by Jundo View original post
    Comments 29 Comments
    1. Mp's Avatar
      Mp -
      I will be there live Jundo. =)

      Gassho
      Shingen
    1. RichardH's Avatar
      RichardH -
      I'll be there/here

      Gassho
      Daizan
    1. Dosho's Avatar
      Dosho -
      I'll be here with bells on.

      Gassho,
      Dosho
    1. Kyonin's Avatar
      Kyonin -
      I'll be there live!

      Gassho,

      Kyonin
    1. Juki's Avatar
      Juki -
      I will be there live.

      Gassho,
      Juki
    1. Joyo's Avatar
      Joyo -
      Unfortunately, I will not be able to make it live, busy week for me. Have a wonderful time everyone.

      Gassho,
      Joyo
    1. Shinzan's Avatar
      Shinzan -
      Count me in, assuming my bandwidth cooperates.
      Shinzan
    1. Ishin's Avatar
      Ishin -
      Live tonight or in the morning. See you all then.
      Gassho
      C
    1. Sekishi's Avatar
      Sekishi -
      Will be there live, Google+ willing. Lately it has been mostly unwilling. ^_^

      Gassho,
      Sekishi
    1. Myosha's Avatar
      Myosha -
      Hello,

      Participating.


      Gassho,
      Myosha
    1. Kyotai's Avatar
      Kyotai -
      Will be live

      Gassho

      Shawn
    1. RichardH's Avatar
      RichardH -
      Thank you. Need sleep this evening.

      Metta for Troy and his family

      Gassho
      Daizan
    1. Mp's Avatar
      Mp -
      Thank you Jundo ... even though you were there and not there. =) Have a great weekend everyone, great to sit with you all.

      Gassho
      Shingen
    1. Juki's Avatar
      Juki -
      Thanks to Jundo and Dosho. Thanks to all who sat. Have a great weekend.

      Gassho,
      Juki
    1. Sekishi's Avatar
      Sekishi -
      Thank you all, visible and invisible. Gassho.
    1. Kantai's Avatar
      Kantai -
      Thank you everyone!

      Gassho
      Kantai
    1. Dosho's Avatar
      Dosho -
      Thanks everyone...the Jundo radio hour (brought to you by our friends at Palmolive) was very nice.

      Gassho,
      Dosho
    1. Myosha's Avatar
      Myosha -
      Lotus in the mud is one not two.

      Thanks to all.


      Gassho,
      Myosha
    1. Kyonin's Avatar
      Kyonin -
      Hi guys.

      Sorry I had to shut down my computer but the storm was hardcore. When that happens we'd better unplug everything to prevent a bolt from Thor hitting the house and fry everything.

      I'll sit zazenkai tomorrow morning.

      Gassho,

      Kyonin
    1. Yugen's Avatar
      Yugen -
      Thank you all.

      Deep bows
      Yugen