May 24th-25th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Hello All,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast from 10am Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 9pm, Los Angeles 6pm (Friday night), London 2am and Paris 3am (early Saturday morning)

... and to be visible on the following screen during those times and sit-a-long-able any time thereafter ...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6aTKf-qB-Q

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO SIT LIVE WITH A CAMERA, A LINK TO JOIN WILL BE POSTED BELOW IN THIS THREAD ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEFORE START TIME. JUST CLICK AND JOIN. 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 VERSE OF ATONEMENT & FOUR VOWS

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 join us in the Chanting of the Heart Sutra (although please keep your microphone muted). You can download and print out the Chants we will recite at the following link (PDF):

Chant Book (PDF)

or

Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML)

Not everyone realizes that they can join in the Chanting of the Heart Sutra, Verse of Atonement and Four Vows (although we ask that you keep your microphone down). Please follow along with the Chant Book, and let your voice ring!

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

SatTodayLAH

PS - There is no "wrong" or "right" in Zazen ... yet here is a little explanation of the "right" times to Bow (A Koan) ...

https://youtu.be/GR6POpsXh9Q

The other video I mention on Zendo decorum is this one, from our "Always Beginners" video Series:

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (12) - Basic Zendo Decorum At Home
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...093#post189093

I will be at one way.

Because my son at sports festival.

Thank you.

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Kakunen

I will be at one way.

Because my son at sports festival.

Thank you.

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

---

Chao Chao too. After Zazen, i rush over to the father-daughter race.

Sports festival is the annual school sports festival for elementary schools and such in Japan. Here's one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbmfqLXqWnM

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jundo

Chao Chao too. After Zazen, i rush over to the father-daughter race.

Sports festival is the annual school sports festival for elementary schools and such in Japan. Here's one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbmfqLXqWnM

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

---

Jundo I leave beach house and on the way to Moriya.

Leave 3AM and take rest there.

I hope you and your family will enjoy sports festa!

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'll sit this one offline :(

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

I will sit this one a little later. Ainsley is having a few sleeping issues this week, so I need to be available to help my Wife with that.

Gassho,

Junkyo
SAT

Sent from my SM-G955W using Tapatalk

The live link I think

https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...jgyxde27wf3cue

With you all one-way.

_()_
sosen
stlah

Here one-way.

Gassho,
Wuyi
Sat/LAH

Thank you, Jundo, Sekishi, and everyone. It is always wonderful to practice together, from here to here!

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/LAH

Thank you all for making this pilgrimage.

Deep bows,
Sekishi
#sat

I am making a pilgrimage back home to the United States in a few days. With luck, I will be able to stop by Ancient Dragon Zen Gate in Chicago and Cedar Rapids Zen Center in Iowa.

Thank you for Zazenkai today.

Gassho,
Wuyi
Sat/LAH

"From here to here" -- felt that deeply, thank you Jundo gassho2 and everyone.

It got a little crazy at the hut tonight because 75% hearing impaired (deaf on the left) and somewhat vision and memory impaired as well (not as much but such fun) and ...

...Hangouts dropped the video.

Tried a couple of times to fix it but gave up, noticing audio was unaffected. So tried to keep up without visual cues, which was rather exciting -- "whoa, was that the signal for kinhin? Has everyone else started kinhin but me????" etc. etc. It was a wonderful zazenkai even so -- good practice for issues of attachment, proclivity for embarrassment, and so on. _()_

Edit: I see from the video my camera was on. Huh. Will watch, to try to get more of a feel for the etiquette. Good night, everyone (or morning, etc.)! _()_

gassho
doyu sat today/lah

Just sat this one, only a couple hours away from live time. I was here when I got up this morning. Did some walking, and what do you know? I'm still here.

Gassho
Kyōshin
Satlah

Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

Sat on one way now.

Happy sports festa and hope to have peace mind :)

Thank you very much,from me and my son!

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...38d50c6154.jpg

Sat today
Gassho
Kakunen


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you all for the zazenkai. Have a great weekend! :)

Gassho
Anant
SaT

Thank you. I sat with all of you this morning.

gassho2
Tairin
Sat today and lah

Thank you all for this Zazenkai! Timeshifted again - but it feels like a live experience anyhow.

Gassho
Gero (sat today and lah)

Thank you everyone.
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

Thank you for sitting together gassho1

Gassho,
Souchi

SatToday

Just sat this. Thank you everyone gassho2

Gassho
Washin
st

I sat this zazenkai in instalments this week. Having a public holiday on the Monday is lovely but it plays havoc with my zazenkai sitting schedule!

Thank you everyone and thank you Jundo for the talk gassho2

Gassho,

Neil

STLaH

Just sat with you all. Thank you everyone.
Hope everyone in Japan had a good Sports Festival.
Gassho,
Mateus
Sat today

Sat On Demand Saturday and Sunday morning. Dead PC stopped me posting until today. IT always changing always impermanent, such is life. Thank you all. [monk]

We've had a week of "wild weather" here on the East Coast, still clearing out the flooding. Just sat a bit of zazenkai. Love the Sports Festival photos, so precious.

Very comforting to see familiar faces and hear familiar voices. Looking forward to sitting the rest.

gassho
kim
st lh