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Thread: September 27-28th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

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    September 27-28th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

    TODAY'S ZAZENKAI WILL BE OUTSIDE IN THE GARDEN, SITTING WITH THE FALL WEATHER.

    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




    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
    Last edited by Jundo; 09-27-2013 at 11:55 PM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    I will be there live.

    gassho,
    william
    "First you have to give up." Tyler Durden

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    I will be your bell ringer.

    Gassho,
    Dosho

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    I will sit later but I can't promise in the garden at 4.30 am UK time
    Gassho

    David

    earth-at-night-1.jpg

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    How appropriate! I will be sitting in the woods with 12 crazy cubscouts. I will sit with you all Sunday night. Thanks to all for their/our practice.

    Gassho C

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    How wonderful to sit outside! Will sit tomorrow morning ... maybe outside too, if I can pick up the wifi. Nice weather at the moment.
    Gassho
    Myozan

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    Mp
    Guest
    I too will be there in the garden.

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Will be there live... but not outside... it has been heavy rain all this month.

    Gassho.

    Sent from Tapatalk 2
    Thank you for your practice

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    Thanks to my wonderful wife, the financial wizard that she is, we managed to find a way to get me a new laptop! It involves me quitting smoking and some other small sacrifices but there it is and so I will be able to participate once again!

    How did we get to sitting outside for this Zazenkai? Did I miss anything? Great idea btw.

    Gassho'

    Enkyo
    Mu

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    In outside and out inside.
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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    Mp
    Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Enkyo View Post
    Thanks to my wonderful wife, the financial wizard that she is, we managed to find a way to get me a new laptop! It involves me quitting smoking and some other small sacrifices but there it is and so I will be able to participate once again!

    How did we get to sitting outside for this Zazenkai? Did I miss anything? Great idea btw.

    Gassho'

    Enkyo

    That is great news ... see you in the garden.

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Will be sitting Sunday evening.
    Gassho, bill

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    in the garden. This thread reminds me of one of my favorite movies of all time, Being There, with Peter Sellers.

    Gassho,
    William
    "First you have to give up." Tyler Durden

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    I'll be there, live but invisible: for some reason I can't seem to convince Linux that my laptop has a video camera...

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    Great movie

    BEING THERE

    "I just like to watch"

    Great movie and book.
    Last edited by Ed; 09-27-2013 at 03:34 PM.
    "Know that the practice of zazen is the complete path of buddha-dharma and nothing can be compared to it....it is not the practice of one or two buddhas but all the buddha ancestors practice this way."
    Dogen zenji in Bendowa






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    I will be there in the garden. Lovely idea

    Gassho,

    Kyonin
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    I'll sit from 8 to 9. I'll have to complete the session tomorrow morning.

    Thank you

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    Sounds lovely. Will sit first thing Saturday morning (GMT).

    How's the lawn Jundo?

    Gassho
    Matt

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    I will sit at 9am for Paris, if there is no rain in a public park.
    Gasshô
    Le secret consiste donc seulement à dire "OUI" et à se jeter dans le vide. Dès lors, il n'y a plus de problème. Il s'agit d'être soi-même dans l'instant présent, toujours soi-même, sans s'accrocher à son vieux moi.
    Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

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    I will be there.
    Gassho
    Jon T

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    Thanks to Jundo, Dosho and all who sat or will sit later. Gassho, William
    "First you have to give up." Tyler Durden

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    Mp
    Guest
    Thanks everyone, was a great outdoor adventure. Have a great weekend.

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Thank you all...Metta

    Gassho
    Thank you for your practice

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    Thank you Jundo, Dosho, and everyone else. The outdoor setting was very nice.

    Gassho,
    Heishu


    “Blessed are the flexible, for they never get bent out of shape." Author Unknown

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    Thank you Treeleaf

    Gassho,

    Daido

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    Stunningly pretty moment.

    Thank you.


    Gassho,
    Edward
    "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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    Thank you everyone.

    Gassho,
    Dosho

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    Technology is awesome. Not only we sit together, we are able to listen to birds and insects sing in the other side of the planet. And choppers and EVAs* too!

    Amazing.

    Thank you all who sat and will sit. Have a lovely weekend

    Gassho,

    Kyonin




    *EVA
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    Thank you all for your practice - it was great sitting in the open if not in the open but in opening. & thanks to all who will sit. I hope you all have a great weekend.

    Gassho
    David

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    Enjoyed that. Thanks Jundo, Dosho and everyone that sat and will sit.

    Gassho
    Matt

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    Thank you everyone,
    Gassho
    Myoku

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    Thanks. A great spacious sitting.
    Gassho
    Myozan

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    I think the helicopters detected an international network of people connected via the internet and decided to check it out. Then they realized we were just zennies and moved on.

    Gassho,
    Dosho

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    Mp
    Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Dosho View Post
    I think the helicopters detected an international network of people connected via the internet and decided to check it out. Then they realized we were just zennies and moved on.

    Gassho,
    Dosho
    Nice!!!!

    I thought they just had some HUGE dragon flies there in Tsukuba!

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    At my Abbey this weekend, so I sat Saturday evening in my cell. Not a flowering garden, but a garden all the same!

    Gassho,

    Seishin-Kyrill

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    Thanks everyone & thanks Jundo for sharing your beautiful garden with us!

    _/\_
    Ade

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    Thank you Jundo, Dosho and everyone who are seated. I could not sit in the garden, rain threatened. Out of the window, the neighborhood animals have made a singing contest with animals from a different continent ... great
    Gasshô
    Le secret consiste donc seulement à dire "OUI" et à se jeter dans le vide. Dès lors, il n'y a plus de problème. Il s'agit d'être soi-même dans l'instant présent, toujours soi-même, sans s'accrocher à son vieux moi.
    Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

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    That was a nice Zazenkai - thanks a lot for your practice!

    Gassho,

    Timo
    no thing needs to be added

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    Thank you all.
    求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
    I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.

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    Crows in my yard talked to crows in the Treeleaf garden - in a different time and space. Hunting dogs in the fields across the road barked and bayed, and dogs barked somewhere near Treeleaf. A helicopter flew over Jundo and a mosquito landed on my arm. All different, but never separate.

    Thank you all for your practice. Wonderful!

    Deep gassho,
    Eric

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    Thanks for sitting everyone. The Bodhi Tree leaf in the pagoda seems appropriate for the fall season and Treeleaf too!


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    Thank you, Jundo, Dosho, and all.
    Gassho, Kaishin
    Thanks,
    Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
    Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

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    Very beautiful garden. I sat with you all today.

    And thanks to the ants, spiders, helicopters and everything else ...

    Thank you.

    Gassho.
    Last edited by Marcelo de Valnisio; 10-01-2013 at 10:11 PM.

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    Thank you all for your practice
    Gassho
    Gi Shu-George
    Gi Shu -George

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    Gassho to all sitting. Better late than never!
    Heisoku 平 息
    Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. (Basho)

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    Sat this yesterday. Thanks, y'all.

    Gassho,
    Shujin


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    Kyoudou Shujin 教道 守仁

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