July 17th-18th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai with BRYSON & ENKAKU!

PLEASE JOIN THIS SPECIAL ZAZENKAI with BRYSON and ENKAKU SCOTT visiting us at Treeleaf Tsukuba this weekend ...


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 at GOOGLE+ IS HERE:
CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ792hBIlF8

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

Hi, all. I'll be out of town at this time slot, so I will sit offline later.
Hope all are well.
_/\_ Shinzan
sattoday

Hi! I'll try to get home on time.

If not, I'll sit with you guys over the weekend.

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

See you all soon.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sattoday

I'll be here!

Gassho,
Dosho

Sat today

Sitting live

Gassho, kyotai
Sat today

Woops, I'm horrid with detail. Guess this one is two hours later ;)
Still SatToday
-r

Visiting tonight. I'll sit (and dance the Heart Sutra?) recorded when back home on Sunday.

Gassho
Daizan

Sat today by a waterfall

Thank you all for sitting. Have a wonderful weekend wherever you are :)

Gassho, Kyotai
Sat today

Good weekend to all! :)

Gassho, Jishin, _/st\_

Thanks to all.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

Thanks everyone, have a lovely weekend.

Gassho,

Shoka
Sattoday

Really great to see so many folks in the Zendo!

Much awesome! Many thanks.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sattoday

gassho2

Gassho,
Sierra
SatToday with Wonderful People

Dancing was nice. Thanks to all. gassho2

Gassho,
Brooks sat today

Great! Dancing, laughing, hugging and high-fives in the zendo. That's my sangha. [monk]

Gassho
Nindo
sattoday

Thank you all very much. Glad to be here.

Gassho,
Ralf sattoday.

Such wonderful energy. Contagious. Thank you, all.

Gassho
Meishin
sat today

:)
Thank you dear Sangha!

Gassho
Lisa
sat today

Sat with this today.

Kyle

Sitting this now.
Gassho,
Matt

Truly wonderful, thank you Jundo, Bryson, Enkaku, and all of you ... lovely. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#just sat this one

That was quite cool.
Nothing against being small pictures around the world, but seeing our Zendo so crowded was fun!
Thank you all.

Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

Hi everyone.

Back at home after a wonderful couple of weeks in Japan which included - of course! - time with Jundo at Treeleaf, as well as some time with Scott and his teacher, Jinen-san, at Bushi Anon-ji. I can't wait to see you all in your little boxes in the corner of my screen next weekend...! [morehappy]

Gassho,

Bryson

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Anshu Bryson

Hi everyone.

Back at home after a wonderful couple of weeks in Japan which included - of course! - time with Jundo at Treeleaf, as well as some time with Scott and his teacher, Jinen-san, at Bushi Anon-ji. I can't wait to see you all in your little boxes in the corner of my screen next weekend...! [morehappy]

Gassho,

Bryson

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:)


Gassho
Daizan

Sat today

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Anshu Bryson

Hi everyone.

Back at home after a wonderful couple of weeks in Japan which included - of course! - time with Jundo at Treeleaf, as well as some time with Scott and his teacher, Jinen-san, at Bushi Anon-ji. I can't wait to see you all in your little boxes in the corner of my screen next weekend...! [morehappy]

Gassho,

Bryson

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Made me smile when you said the little boxes, thanks Bryson. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

Thank you guys.

Such a lovely ceremony :)

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

Gassho,

Geoff.
SatToday.

Thank you Jundo, thank you all
for this sitting.
Gassho
Gi Shu- George

That was a lovely! Thank you all for the joy and the dancing. I hope I am not being crass, but how can I get a copy of the music for the Heart Sutra dance? I would like to add it to our practice.

Gassho,
Ansan

SatToday

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Ansan

That was a lovely! Thank you all for the joy and the dancing. I hope I am not being crass, but how can I get a copy of the music for the Heart Sutra dance? I would like to add it to our practice.

Gassho,
Ansan

SatToday

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Hi Ansan,

Here is our Heart Sutra by Gary Dyson, a Tibetan practitioner who graciously allowed us to make this part of our Ceremony from time to time. It is the "long version" of the Heart Sutra, which the Tibetans tend to chant, with an additional opening and closing section ...

https://garyazukx.bandcamp.com/track/heart-sutra

Gassho, J

SatToday, Danced Today

Hello Jundo! Thank you...I look forward to dancing and sitting tomorrow, not at the same time!

Gassho,
Ansan

SatToday, DancingTomorrow