July 24th-25th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai with IAN

[Jundo]

reMINDer: Our Special Zazen & Talk with Taigen Dan Leighton is SATURDAY (details here)!

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



https://plus.google.com/b/1169304486...8gcship4vhkd3o

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

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo, I will be there live. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[RichardH]

Will be here /there.

Gassho daizan


sat today

[Doshin]

Thank you, I will be present.

Gassho,

Randy

[Kyonin]

Hi Jundo!

I'll be there live with bells ready!

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Nindo]

I'm a bit slow this morning. Who is IAN?
Gassho
Nindo

[Jundo]

I'm a bit slow this morning. Who is IAN?
Gassho
Nindo

"Ian" is this fellow who I have gotten to know today, and such an interesting fellow. He is visiting Japan this week, and stopped in to spend the night here.

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post154997

Gassho, J

[Joyo]

I will be there live.


Gassho,
Joyo
sat today

[Shinzan]

I will be there, but one way.
_/\_ Shinzan
sitting again

[Sekishi]

See you all soon.
Gassho,
Sekishi
#sattoday

[Joyo]

Thank you Jundo, Ian, Kyonin....everyone. I am so grateful to be able to practice with you all.

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo, Ian, and everyone ... always wonderful to sit with you, just as it is! =) Have a great night.

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[Shinzan]

Thanks, everybody. Great to see the hangout full, and overflowing into Ian's being present in Tsukuba.
Keep cool
_/\_ Shinzan

[Myosha]

Thanks to all.

(On a side note, Ian. My Brit co-worker on the big ships always said, "Horses sweat, men perspire,
and women glow.")


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Anshu Bryson]

Thanks Jundo, everyone! Nice to see you in the Zendo, Ian!

Gassho,
Bryson

-sat today-

[Kotei]

Thank you all for sitting together..

Gassho,
Ralf sattoday.

[Yugen]

Thank you for this zazenkai and for sitting together. Deep bows.

Yugen

PS - thank you Jundo for the plug for Sunday's zazenkai!

Deep bows
Yugen

sat2day

[Jika]

Thank you all.
Good talk.
Hope to see you later, Yugen

Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

[Kakunen]

Thank you always everybody!

I am 「Mr k.」！

I sat by one way!

合掌。(^^)

[Jundo]

Thank you always everybody!

I am 「Mr k.」！

I sat by one way!

合掌。(^^)

Yeah! I am glad you could log in!

Be careful working outside in this heat.

Gassho, Jundo

SatToday

[Byokan]

Thank you dear Sangha!
Thank you for the talk, Jundo.
Wonderful to see you, Ian. Hey Mr. K.

Gassho
Lisa
sat today

[Jakuden]

I can't wait to catch up, I was away this past weekend (did a lot of airplane/airport Zazen) and missed all the fun!! I am going to have to use my timer and be frugal with the data though... my teenage kids used up half a month's worth of data on our modem plan while I was gone!!

Gassho,
Sierra
Sitting this now.