December 3rd, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Hello All,

As a warm-up for Our 2-DAY ROHATSU 'AT HOME' RETREAT starting Sunday ...

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 7pm, Los Angeles 4pm (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

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



OUR 90 MINUTE SITTING SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:

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:

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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

I'll be there. :)

Gassho,
Dosho

one more night of flying solo so I'll have to catch the recording again....perhaps 5 minutes before the retreat starts? :shock: :shock: :shock:

Thank you Jundo...and to all those who sat tonight and will be sitting live this weekend. I'll be joining you next weekend for the retreat, but we are all still sitting as one! :D

Deep bows to all who practice...

Gassho,
Dosho

Thank you,
Gassho
Peter

Ah, the sound of rain!

Spent so much time today cleaning up and re-watching all the retreat prep videos, I almost forgot about this sit!

Look forward to sitting with everybody tomorrow . . . about 4 a.m. my time! :shock:

Gassho

Jen