October 10th-11th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

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/ScGct0eWXDY

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 gassho1

Looking forward to my first Zazenkai! Though it won't be the live cast...

I will be there live. =)

Gassho
Shingen

I regret that I will be away on remote travel (remote enough not to have internet access!) and will hence have to catch up with this session on my return. I'll still be sitting though!

Gassho,

Bryson

Will be there live, see you all there :)

Gassho

I'll try to join live for the second zazen if I can, then I'll sit again the entire zazenkai on saturday, sunday or monday morning.

Gassho,
Walter.

Hello all,

I shall try and join live for at least the first half.

Gassho


Shugen

I will be there live :)

Gassho,
Joyo

I'll be here/there

Gassho
Daizan

Won't be live, but I'll be there later in the evening.

Gassho,
-Jeff

See you all "live" shortly.
Gassho,
Sekishi

I'll be here. :)

Gassho,
Dosho

On deck.
Shinzan

Sitting this live, one way. Gassho, Matt J

I don't see a hangout on Google Plus. Will wait around a few minutes and then just sit.

Gassho,
Sekishi

Can't get in...will keep trying.

Gassho,
Dosho

Falling sound asleep..zzz Will sit zazenkai over the weekend.

Gassho
Daizan

Looking for you all and can't find anything on G+......

Deep bows
Yugen

Wonderful to practice with everyone! What a great job you did, Shingen--congratulations!!!

Gassho,
Joyo

Thank you everyone, that was wonderful! I have to admit I was nervous and shy, but thank you Jundo and to all of you for allowing me to practice and sit with that shyness. =)

Deep bows
Shingen

Google Plus was in rare form tonight. The hangout didn't show up for me in iOS or Windows until 2 or 3 minutes after it started. Then I had no audio on the desktop version, and no video in the iOS version. No sight no sound indeed Shariputra! [scared]

Ok, letting go of that... Thank you all for your practice. Wonderful to sit with you all.

Gassho,
Sekishi

Thank you guys and girls, seen or unseen, now and later...have a great weekend.....and Shingen, you did a great job!!! :)
Gassho

Shingen, congratulations on your debut!

Gassho
Yugen

Thanks everyone. I watched the broadcast for the first half and joined the Hangout for the second. Wonderful job Shingen! :)

Gassho,
Dosho

Had technical difficulties and was not able to join live right away. Good sit. Great weekend everyone! :)

Gassho, Jishin

See you all Sunday.
Gassho

Thanks to all.


Gassho,
Myosha

Thank you, Jundo and Shingen, and all who sat and will sit.

Gasso,
Danny

Thanks to all, especially Shingen :encouragement:
Gassho,
David

Thank you Jundo, everyone,
and well done Shingen :encouragement:
have a lovely weekend,
Gassho
Myoku

Thanks to all. Way to go Shingen!

Gassho
John

Sitting with this now gassho2

Thank you


Gassho
Daizan

Just sat this one with my daughter watching TV and then came with her nose bleeding and the dog turning around and the neighbors yelling.

All good practice I guess.

Thanks everyone. Good chanting, Shingen!

Gassho,
Walter.

gassho1

Just sat this. Lovely. Great job Shingen.

Fist bump [hi5]

Gassho
Bobby

Sat this last night after a hectic weekend of travel. Another 30 mins this morning and I am firing on all eight cylinders!

Gassho,

Bryson

Beautiful Shingen! Thank you everyone!

Gassho
Kantai

Hey folks,

Thank you all for your kind and encouraging words ... have some practice to do, but I am very happy to share and practice with you all. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Shingen

Hey folks,

Thank you all for your kind and encouraging words ... have some practice to do, but I am very happy to share and practice with you all. =)

Gassho
Shingen

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And we are very happy to be able to practice with you, you did a great job!!!

Gassho,
Joyo

Well done, Shingen!
Thanks a lot for sitting everyone!

Gassho,

Daitetsu

=)
Gassho,
Raf

Thank you all for this sitting
Gassho
Gi shu-George

Gassho,

Risho