October 17th-18th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Yugen]

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



SCREEN TO BE POSTED HERE SHORTLY BEFORE NETCAST

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, Yugen

[Jundo]

I wish to welcome Yugen, our current Shuso Head Seat guiding Ango this month, who will be leading our Zazenkai this time live from Maine, USA.

Gassho, Jundo

[Anshu Bryson]

I will be there; looking forward to meeting Yugen 'live'!

Gassho,

Bryson

[Mp]

Hello Yugen and welcome to Treeleaf. LOL I will be sitting with you all live. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[orangedice]

I may be able to join in live this time! (Though one way, because I am much too nervous for two-way.)

- June

[Mp]

I may be able to join in live this time! (Though one way, because I am much too nervous for two-way.)

- June

No need to be nervous June ... just us brothers and sisters here. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[Kyonin]

I'll be there live!

June, please don't be nervous. We only follow the ceremony and sit. Nothing special. Please join us live!

Gassho,

Kyonin

[orangedice]

I suppose I'm mostly worried that I won't be able to do the full hour of zazen!

Gassho,

June

[Mp]

I suppose I'm mostly worried that I won't be able to do the full hour of zazen!

Gassho,

June

Hello June,

Not too worry, we sit for 30mins at a time with some kinhin (walking meditation) in between. But know that even during that 30mins if it is too much then maybe do some kinhin and give the body a break. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[jeff_u]

I'll be there. Looking forward to sitting with you all

Gassho,
-Jeff

[Joyo]

It's my son's birthday party tonight so I will not be able to make it. Have a wonderful zazenkai everyone. I'd rather be enjoying it with you all, but my practice for today is having about 14 screaming, yelling, sugar-filled little boys to take care of. =)

Gassho,
Joyo

[Jundo]

I would like to announce that Mr. K., the fellow who has been sitting with us in Tsukuba these past weeks, will be sitting "one way".

Yugen, can you say "Yokoso" (sounds like "Yoko" of Yoko Ono, and "So" of "sew a Rakusu") Mr. K at the start of the netcast?

Good sitting everyone. I am at an event for a local charity today, so will sit later.

Gassho, J

[Yugen]

Of course Jundo, happy to - what am I saying?

Deep bows
Yugen


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[Yugen]

Joyo,
You are exactly where you should be -

Happy Birthday to your son and Deep bows

Yugen


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[Jundo]

Welcome Mr. K.!

Of course Jundo, happy to - what am I saying?

Deep bows
Yugen


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[RichardH]

I'll be here/there

Gassho
Daizan

[Myosha]

Participating.


Gassho,
Myosha

[Ryokan]

I wish to welcome Yugen, our current Shuso Head Seat guiding Ango this month, who will be leading our Zazenkai this time live from Maine, USA.

Gassho, Jundo

Congrats, Yugen.

It will be a pleasure to sit together tonight.

Gassho.

[orangedice]

Looks like I won't be making it live like I thought. More work came up!

[Mp]

It's my son's birthday party tonight so I will not be able to make it. Have a wonderful zazenkai everyone. I'd rather be enjoying it with you all, but my practice for today is having about 14 screaming, yelling, sugar-filled little boys to take care of. =)

Gassho,
Joyo

Happy Birthday to him Joyo ... make sure you leave some cake for us! LOL

Gassho
Shingen

[Dosho]

I'll be here!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Sekishi]

See you all soon!
Gassho,
Sekishi

[Mp]

Wonderful Yugen .... thank you everyone for sitting, have a great weekend. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[Koshin]

Great siiting with you guys, great work Yugen and Kyonin, and everyone... see you soon

Gassho

[RichardH]

Thank you and deep bows.

Gassho
Daizan

[Jishin]

Good sit. Great weekend everyone!

Gassho, Jishin

[Anshu Bryson]

Thanks Yugen (& Kyonin!). I sat with you, but only one-way, as couldn't get 'in' to the google+ session (I don't know what that's about; nothing in my feed, so no 'door' to get in...)

[Myosha]

Thanks to all.


Gassho,
Myosha

[Dosho]

Thanks Yugen, Kyonin, and all for sitting! Deep bows!

Gassho,
Dosho

[jeff_u]

Thank you all! Like Bryson I was stuck one way, no link for the Hangout in my feed.

Gassho,
-Jeff

[Jishin]

Same here Bryson. I could not get in either. I am new to this g+ so I hope to figure it out soon.

Gassho, Jishin

[Yugen]

Thank you all for sitting with me this evening and celebrating our practice - a wonderful thing to be together.

I'm sorry about the fact that some of you could not find a "door" - I had the same issue last week - I did select the Treeleaf Sangha circle as I was starting the hangout. I am grateful that you joined us - thank you again. Have a fine weekend.

Gassho
Yugen

[jeff_u]

No worries Yugen. Thank you and Kyonin for the lovely Zazenkai. I like to think of those things as the leaky roof and creaky boards of our virtual/real Zendo.

Gassho,
Jeff

[Taikyo]

Thank you Yugen. It is always good to sit with you. I know I only visit these days but so good to see & sit with you all again.
Deep Bows
Taikyo

[Yugen]

Taikyo,
It's our privilege to have you here, thank you so much for sitting with us - you are always welcome - see you over at the Hermitage!

Looking forward to your course -

Best regards and Gassho
Yugen


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[Meishin]

Thank you Yugen, Kyonin, and everybody. Have a wonderful weekend.

Gassho
John

[Ryokan]

Was really a pleasure to sit with you, yesterday...

Thanks.

Gassho

[Jundo]

Thank you Yugen, Kyonin and all.

Gassho, J

[Steven]

Wonderful!


Steven

[Kyonin]

Thank you all who sat and will sit.

Sorry you had to endure my ugly face during chanting...

But ugly mugs like mine are also zen.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Amy Penne]

Thank you, wonderful community.
--amy

[Matt]

Sitting this one now. Gassho, Matt J

[pinoybuddhist]

Gassho,
Raf

[Daitetsu]

Thank you so much, Yugen, Kyonin and all who sat and will be sitting!

Gassho,

Daitetsu

[Geika]

Soon my wi-fi will be on. Gassho

[Jundo]

Soon my wi-fi will be on. Gassho

You are sitting together with everyone wi-fi or not. We have something more powerful than wi-fi ... MU-fi.

Gassho, J

[Gi Shu-George]

Thank you all for this sitting
Gassho
Gi shu-George

[Geika]

Mu fi is go!

[Risho]

Thank you.

Gassho,

Risho

[Jika]

Thank you all.
Thanks to Yugen for being Shuso this month!

Gassho,
Danny