October 23rd, 2010 Friday/Saturday Zazenkai (NEW TIME!)

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW EARLIER SITTING TIME FOR THE LIVE NETCAST!

Hi,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE TODAY 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 ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at USTREAM:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sit-a-long-with-jundo

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:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/10358687

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:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2231

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

Looking forward to it! :D

Thanks for the sit to all who have sat, are sitting, or will sit...all at once. :)

Gassho,
Dosho

Thank you
Gassho
Peter

A very nice Friday evening sit, thank you all, and thank you to our new friends in Japan for joining us this evening it was great to see everyone. :D
Gassho ~ Dave.

a wonderful sit.. new faces , new "zafu" called a work chair.

I sat at work.. and the phone didn't ring once!

Just finished this Zazenkai. Thank you, Jundo.
Thank you also to our friends there (as well as here) who sat.
Gassho,
Don

Hello,
sat this zazenkai before lunch, excellent to see the zendo so populated. Had a very good session sitting with you all, thank you very much, look forward to the next.

Gassho

Joe

Hi Jundo,

Sat Saturday morning Zazenkai on Saturday morning...same Saturday, same morning, same Zazenkai.

It was so good to see real live folks, other than your wonderful self, in the Zendo. I do miss hearing the crickets, but the birds were nice.

Gassho,

Seishin Kyrill

Hi everyone!

I just finish sitting this week's zazenkai in our rainy saturday!
It was very nice to have some people in the zendo with Jundo! i hope they had a nice sitting too and that we will see them next week!

Thanks to everyone!
gassho,
Jinyu

Just finished sitting too.
Seemed to sit at the old regular time!
Thanks Jundo maybe I'll get around to sit live again early one morning.

Dassho Nigel

thank you! wonderful zazenkai :)

Hello friends,

I just sat with all in the recorded version. Good to see that there is some interest in the community!

Much metta to all!

Perry

Just finished... Thank you!

Gassho,
Peter

A bit late, but I sat this one today. Nice to see visitors in the zendo!