April 10th-11th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai (NEW START TIME!)

[Jundo]

reMINDer: NOTE OUR NEW STARTLESS START TIME, AN HOUR LATER THAN BEFORE!

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



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

[Jundo]

Also ... Greetings from our regular sitter here at Treeleaf Tsukuba in Japan, Mr. K ....

... who has so taken to Practice that he has gone off for a month (maybe more if he can) to sit with our friend Abbot Muho at Antaiji.

He called me yesterday to say that he is hanging in there so far with the hard labor and 15 hours of 45 minute sittings!

He said that he is still sitting with all of us, but he does wish he were in better shape and a little younger!

Nine Bows, Jundo

[Kyotai]

Glad to hear an update on Mr. K.

Gassho, Kyotai
Sat today

[RichardH]

Will be here/there at 9pm EST.

Gassho
Daizan

sat today

[Mp]

I will be there live. =)

And deep bows to Mr. K ... wonderful!

Gassho
Shingen

JustSat

[Shinzan]

I'll try to be there. I've had the flu all week and am feeling pretty depleted.
Warm regards to Mr. K too.

_/st\_ Shinzan

[Jundo]

Get some rest, Shinzan. We'll keep your seat warm.

Gassho, Jundo

[Sekishi]

I will see you all soon. Deep bows to Mr. K and all who sit today!

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sattoday

[Jika]

Sorry for the question, I often get confused with the world time.
My computer claims Tokio is (considering German DLST) 7 hours ahead of me.
I am 8pm, my clock is showing Tokio 3am tomorrow.

So my question is, should it be Paris 3am above?
I won't be participating live this time, but would like to in future.

Thank you.
Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

[Jundo]

Sorry for the question, I often get confused with the world time.
My computer claims Tokio is (considering German DLST) 7 hours ahead of me.
I am 8pm, my clock is showing Tokio 3am tomorrow.

So my question is, should it be Paris 3am above?
I won't be participating live this time, but would like to in future.

Thank you.
Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

Yes.

[Yugen]

Way to go Mr. K!

Deep bows
Yugen


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Hotetsu]

I will be here/there. Great to hear from Mr. K. 😊

Gassho,
Hotetsu

#SatToday

[Mp]

Sorry for the question, I often get confused with the world time.
My computer claims Tokio is (considering German DLST) 7 hours ahead of me.
I am 8pm, my clock is showing Tokio 3am tomorrow.

So my question is, should it be Paris 3am above?
I won't be participating live this time, but would like to in future.

Thank you.
Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

Hey there Danny,

Have you tried this site for sorting out those crazy world times? =)

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?pl=1&...0159&h=2110683

Gassho
Shingen

SatToday

[Kyonin]

Deep bows to Mr. K!

I don't think I can make it tonight guys. I'll sit this one on Saturday morning.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Jundo]

Mr. K. wrote to say that, since yesterday was a Sesshin at Antaiji, today is a "Housan" (a traditional light day for the priests to do their laundry, shave their heads and such) ... so he will be using some of his precious time to sit with us today during Zazenkai one way!! Lovely.

Gassho, Jundo

[Mp]

Mr. K. wrote to say that, since yesterday was a Sesshin at Antaiji, today is a "Housan" (a traditional light day for the priests to do their laundry, shave their heads and such) ... so he will be using some of his precious time to sit with us today during Zazenkai one way!! Lovely.

Gassho, Jundo

Thats is wonderful! =)

Gassho
Shingen

SatToday

[Myosha]

Participating.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Jishin]

Gassho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Sekishi]

Wonderful to sit with you all. Thank you for your practice. Nine bows to Mr. K, and each of you.

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Hogo]

Thank you Jundo, everyone.
Gassho
Hogo.
Sat today

[RichardH]

Thank you and gassho, everyone.

Daizan

sat today

[Mp]

Wonderful wonderful ... thank you all. Have a great weekend. Waves out to Mr. K. =) Gassho

Gassho
Shingen

SatToday

[Shoka]

Thank you everyone.

Gassho,
Shoka

Sattoday

[Myosha]

Thanks to all.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Kotei]

Thank you very much.

Gassho,
Ralf sattoday

[Jika]

Thank you all very much.
Deep bows to Mr K. for his dedication.

Hey there Danny,

Have you tried this site for sorting out those crazy world times? =)

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?pl=1&...0159&h=2110683

Gassho
Shingen

Thank you, Shingen, this looks great.
I have a worldclock in my desktop clock, giving me the current time in places I need, but yours is much better for scheduling.
I've always been doing the math counting backwards and forwards on my fingers...

Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

[Joyo]

I was at a friend's house last night so I'll have to sit with the recorded version during the week. =)

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today

[Joyo]

Wonderful, thank you all. Just sat with the recording.

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today

[Ansan]

I tried sitting with you last night and again this morning. Only the Blue Screen appeared. So I sent my Zafu and sat on it here this morning. Thank you, everyone.

Gassho,
Ansan

#SatToday

[odiedoodie]

Thank you again,
Gassho
Jon Te

[rego]

I enjoyed sitting with you all (on the recording).

Thank you!

Andrew

sat today

[Kokuu]

Thank you all!

Gassho
Kokuu
#sattoday

[Byokan]

Thank you dear Sangha,

Gassho
Lisa
sat today