Aug 19th-20th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai with SHOKA!!

[Jundo]

Please sit a Special Zazenkai with our long time member SHOKA, flying in from the USA via Taiwan. PLEASE NOTE THAT, AS SHE IS LITERALLY COMING TO ZAZEN from the AIRPORT, THERE IS SOME CHANCE OF A SMALL DELAY IN OUR START TIME as I run to pick her up. Please patiently sit Zazen if you wait.

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/c21qi...18fqj0srnu0kak

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 note GOOGLE HANGOUTS are moving from SEPTEMBER 12th to 'YOUTUBE LIVE', and will no longer be found at Google+.

Hangouts should be the same, but how to get there and access them will be a bit different. We will provide details in the coming days.

You can read more here too ...

https://support.google.com/youtube/a...=live_hoa&rd=1

Gassho, Jundo

SatToday

[Mp]

Ahh thank you Jundo, this is wonderful.

I will be there live to sit with all of you with bells and mokugyo ready. =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[RichardH]

I will be here/there live.

Gassho
Daizan

sat today

[Kyotai]

Will be working. Enjoy your sit and safe travels Shoka.

Gassho, Kyotai
ST

[Meian]

I will sit again later today and will join it in spirit with the Zazenkai, as I don't know what time this is, don't know how to join in, will be working, and today is my husband's last day of vacation

So i will in essence be 'one way'

Gassho
Kim st

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[Kyonin]

Hi guys,

I'll have to sit this one over the weekend.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Onkai]

Thank you. I will be there 2-way, tech allowing. If not, I will practice with the video later in the weekend.

Gassho,
Onkai

[Taiyo]

Thank you. I'll try to be there, doing my best to keep my eyes "half-open" at that time

Gassho,
Andoitz.

[Geika]

I will be more missing out. Going to the mountains for a jazz festival. See you all next week!

Gassho, sat today

[Byokan]

Hi all,

I will be live one-way.

Kim, I believe that is 9pm Pennsylvania time. Did you know you can access the Zazenkai right in this thread, through the window, above? And if you want to, you can then click on the Youtube icon while it's playing, to go directly to the Youtube stream (or recording, as the case may be.)

Anyway we are all together, regardless; live, recorded, or in spirit!

Gassho
Byōkan
sat today

[Byokan]

Oh I just noticed... August 19th -10th Zazenkai??? Jundo is showing off his magic zen time-warping skills, or else that is gonna be one loooooong sit.

Gassho
Byōkan
sat today

[Mp]

Oh I just noticed... August 19th -10th Zazenkai??? Jundo is showing off his magic zen time-warping skills, or else that is gonna be one loooooong sit.

Gassho
Byōkan
sat today

Thanks Byokan, I fixed the date. =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Jakuden]

How exciting! If I make it out of work in time I will be there one-way :-D

Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday

[Jundo]

Thank you, date fixed ... and I have been informed that the plane arrived on time, cleared customs, and she is heading this way on the Tsukuba bound airport bus ... ALL SYSTEMS GO!

Gassho, J

[Sekishi]

Hope to sit live this week. Yay!

Gassho,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Jundo]

Hello everyone,

Here is the event link for todays zazenkai: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...-GB&authuser=0

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Myosha]

Participating "one -way"

[RichardH]

Thank you and Gassho

Daizan

sat today

[Myosha]

Thanks to all.


Gassho
Myosha
sat today

[Mp]

Thank you everyone, lovely to see you all, and lovely to see Shoka sitting beside Jundo. =)

And good catch Jundo, I went back to check and saw I posted it on the wrong day ... but you got it. =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Onkai]

Thank you, everybody. Have a good weekend!

Gassho,
Onkai
SatToday

[Byokan]

Wonderful. Loved Jundo's talk. Love the smiling faces

Wishing you a beautiful sunrise on the mountain, Shoka!

Gassho
Byōkan
sat today

[Jakuden]

Awesome!! So fun to see Shoka in the zendo, safe travels! Thanks and good night everyone!
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday


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[Joyo]

Thank you everyone. Enjoy your travels, Shoka. Lovely to sit along with everyone thanks to the recording.

Gassho,
Joyo
just sat

[Toun]

Tuned in a little late but enjoyed the Zazenkai. Enjoy your trip Shoka!
Thanks to everyone.

Gassho
Mike
Sat2day

[Jika]

Thank you all.
Aaaah, a country where planes and buses are on schedule...
Enjoy your trip, Shoka!

Gassho
Jika
#sattoday

[Hoko]

Can't wait to watch the video on YouTube. What's the usual delay before the zazenkai becomes accessible there?
Gassho,
K2
#SatToday

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[Jundo]

Can't wait to watch the video on YouTube. What's the usual delay before the zazenkai becomes accessible there?
Gassho,
K2
#SatToday

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It is there almost immediately after we finish. It is there now, at the above link in the OP.

Gassho, J

SatToday

[Hoko]

Thank you, Jundo.
Gassho,
K2
#SatToday

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[Jyukatsu]

Just finished sitting, a day late but so great that this is possible, what a wonderful resource !
Thanks Jundo and everyone
Gassho,
Marina sat today

[Deirdre]

It was wonderful to sit with you all this morning. Thank you, Jundo. Safe travels, Shoka!

Gassho,

Deirdre
sat2day

[Kyonin]

Thank you guys. It was a lovely zazenkai

Hi Shoka!

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

[Jundo]

I heard from Shoka ... they were delayed in the Mt. Fuji climb by a day due to weather. But they should be in their night climb right now ...

I will report any updates.

Gassho, J

SatToday, climbed some stairs at the mall.

[Mp]

I heard from Shoka ... they were delayed in the Mt. Fuji climb by a day due to weather. But they should be in their night climb right now ...

I will report any updates.

Gassho, J

SatToday, climbed some stairs at the mall.

Awesome, I hope they get to see the sunless sun rise.

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Meian]

Wow, and I'm still recovering from an "overly exuberant" yoga class the other night (I tried) ..... and they're climbing Mt Fuji. :O

Gassho
Kim
Sat today

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[Hoko]

Sat zazenkai this morning.
Thank you to all!
Gassho,
K2
#SatToday

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[Ansan]

Wonderful to see Shoka! Visualizing climbing Mt. Fuji...awesome. Unable to sit for the time being because of very bad transmission, but I sat Zazenkai with you all this morning.

Gassho
Ansan

SatToday

[Kotei]

Thank you all.

Gassho,
Kotei sattoday.

[22chill]

Just sat this Zazenkai on a Tuesday morning in Canada. I think I'm starting to get past the time/space thing at Treeleaf. Jundo's talk was helpful in this regard. Thanks to all who sat.

Colin
Sat today

[Washin]

Sat this Zazenkai tonight. Thank you all.
Thank you for the talk Jundo.

Gassho
Washin
st

[Matt]

Will be sitting this tonight. Glad Shoka made it there safely
Matt