May 10-11th, 2013 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/KSQlVlE7oOs

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

I will be there. :)

Gassho
Shingen

Maybe I can actually get my camera working correctly this time.

I'll be there!

Gassho,

Kyonin

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Amelia

Maybe I can actually get my camera working correctly this time.

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Even if you can't get the camera working, come sit with us! You can always watch the live stream.

And of course you can always sit with us later.

Treeleaf, bending time and space continuum since 2153. http://www.gatheringmagic.com/forum/...ARDIS-icon.png

Gassho,

Kyonin

I won't be able to make it tonight due to a previous commitment.... I will sit this weekend!

Gassho
Yugen

I'll sit over the weekend.
Gassho
Matt

Normally Friday evenings at 8:00 are out for me. I'm usually picking my wife and daughter up from work at 8:45. Tonight is prom night though, so they took the evening off. I do believe we'll be able to sit live tonight. (we meaning me and Charlie).

I'll be there.

Gassho,
Dosho

Will be celebrating with Mom, so will join "live" tomorrow saturday morning :)

Gassho

no cam, but i will be sitting as well.

gassho
justin

Joined the 1st Zazen, had to go before the 2nd. Thank you guyas, have a great weekend :)

Gassho

Thanks everyone ... have a great weekend. :)

Gassho
Shingen

My thanks to Jundo and all who sat...deep bows.

Gassho,
Dosho

Thanks everyone. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Gassho,
Arnold

When I came home from work this afternoon I sat with you all, but I forgot it was Friday so I didn't turn my computer on! [claps]

Thank you all for sitting!
Gassho,
Eric

Thank you for your practice

gassho1

Willow

Thanks to the Bishop of Tsukuba [morehappy] , the ino and everyone.
Gassho
Myozan

Thank you all who sat / will sit.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Gassho,

Kyonin

Thank you!
its wonderful to see so many people practicing,
_()_
Myoku

Thank you to all that sat and will sit.

Gassho
Matt

Prom night was more demanding on dad than expected. Will be sitting in about 15 minutes.

Thank you Jundo and everyone sitting. Gassho

Thank you!

Gassho,

Risho

Thank you.

Gassho

Enkyo

Thanks a lot to all who sat and will sit!

Gassho,

Timo

Thank you all for sitting together.

Gassho
Shinka

Sat with you all on Sunday morning. Many thanks to you all for your practice supporting mine
Gassho

David