June 10th-11th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

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

EVENT PAGE:
https://plus.google.com/events/c4qok...m4hflh3vi1cp0g

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]

I will be there live. =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Kyonin]

Thank you Jundo!

I'll be there ready to sing and hit the bell

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

[RichardH]

I'll be here/there. Thank you.

Gassho
Daizan

Sat Today

[Sekishi]

See you all soon.

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Onkai]

I will be there live, tech allowing. Thank you.

Gassho,
Onkai
SatToday

[Tai Shi]

Please add me to notices ctaylor109@gmail.com Tai Shi

[Onkai]

Thank you. I was glad to see so many people.

Gassho,
Onkai
SatToday

[Mp]

Lovely to sit with you all, enjoy your night, and have a great weekend. =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Myosha]

Thanks to all.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Sekishi]

Thank you all for coming together for practice.

Lovely "little talk" Jundo. It really resonated (danced) with me.

If anyone wants to re-listen at some point, here is the talk (it isn't a podcast or anything, just an mp3 file):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-M-trimmed.mp3

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Mp]

Thank you all for coming together for practice.

Lovely "little talk" Jundo. It really resonated (danced) with me.

If anyone wants to re-listen at some point, here is the talk (it isn't a podcast or anything, just an mp3 file):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-M-trimmed.mp3

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

Thank you Sekishi, I too really enjoyed the talk, so nice to have it to listen to. =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Myosha]

Hello,

Thank you for the link.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Gokai]

I Just Sat Today with all of You and the zazenkai recording. Jundo talk was very good like always and made me feel very glad to be here in Treeleaf with all of You.
I wish all of You peace and a very nice weekend.
Gassho, David
Sattoday

[Eishuu]

Thank you all. I really enjoyed the talk. Have a good weekend all.

Gassho
Lucy
Sat today

[Washin]

Thank you everyone. Just sat with the recording.
Thank you for the talk, Jundo.

Gassho
Washin

[Jika]

Thank you all.

Gassho
Jika
#sattoday

[Tai Shi]

I sincerely want to thank Jundo and everyone for letting me practice with you--I am a changed student because of this--as in Zen Mind, Beginner Mind there are four horses, and I have seen myself as the forth, and according to Suzuki Roshi that's just okay because this forth horse might be as able as all the others--words to that way--I also have Master Uciyma's Opening the Hand of Thought which I shall begin today, and his writings based on Dogen's Cookbook is in the mail to me. I am not jaded but committed as a zen student--this from a 64-year-young man. Thank you, and when possible I shall return to Treeleaf Zazenkai!

Tai Shi
std
Gassho

[Meishin]

Thank you. Wonderful talk, Jundo. Just what the patient needed today.

Gassho
Meishin
sat today

[Geika]

Joined today, thank you all. Gassho

Sat today

[TyZa]

Sat with you all today. Great talk Jundo! Thank you to Treeleaf as a whole. I've sat 30 days in a row (the longest consistency I've ever done) and I attribute this to Treeleaf. Thank you all.

Deep bow,
Tyler

SatToday

[Jakuden]

Sat with you all today. Great talk Jundo! Thank you to Treeleaf as a whole. I've sat 30 days in a row (the longest consistency I've ever done) and I attribute this to Treeleaf. Thank you all.

Deep bow,
Tyler

SatToday

Great, Tyler! I used to use a meditation timer before I joined Treeleaf, (not Insight Timer).... I remember how I used to get so spotty at times with my puny 15 minute sits, and some days I'd just swat away that annoying reminder icon, lol. It really is so important to sit with a Sangha.

Thank you Jundo, I listened to that talk twice. Deep bows to everyone for their practice.

Gassho,
Jakuden
SatToday

[Roland]

Thank you for the inspiring talk, Jundo.

Gassho

Roland
#SatToday

[Kotei]

Thank you all.
Gassho,
Kotei just sat this.