JUST BUMPING as we get ready to roll out the following new CALENDAR of our ONLINE SITTING GROUPS. We will also be confirming the times and dates with the folks who volunteered previously.
Tentative Sitting Calendar:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing
The location for all this will be our new Video Hangout "Scheduled Sitting Room" (and coffee and tea in our "Meeting Room")
Hi All.
We are seeking volunteers who would be willing to commit to hosting a weekly Zazen sitting video hangout for other Leafers.
We are trying to get a whole bunch of such hangouts scheduled, at different hours and days, so as to cover all our Treeleaf members in all time zones from Brisbane to St. Louis to Paris, and all variety of personal job schedules. The idea is that there would be many opportunities scattered during the week to see, hear and Sit! with other sitters live.
Sitting Hangouts should be from 25 or 30 minutes to an hour long or so (your choice) and consist of some or all of the following kind of scheduled activities (also your choice):
--- Chanting as a group at the start and/or end, for example, the Heart Sutra, the Verse of Atonement, the Four Vows, Metta Verses (all optional, up to the group host);
--- Sitting Zazen once or twice (up to you) for 25 or 30 minutes each time, or however long the host usually sits (we leave it to the host). Kinhin can be added for a few minutes as well;
--- Tea and Chat time at the end in our "Meeting Room" (optional, up to the host).
In fact, no need to even be so fancy: If you are already sitting at home, just commit to turn the camera on certain days and let others join with you even silently with sitting alone.
Not really much more to it than that. The host would be responsible for scheduling or opening a hangout each time and notify folks who express interest (we can show you how)
We understood too that life sometimes intervenes, so it is fine if ... like anything in life ... you sometimes have to get someone to "cover" for you or even cancel now and then. But generally, we would like the hosts to commit responsibly to their day and time. Yes, two or more people could agree to take turns for a time slot.
I am thinking that hosts should be preferably long time members of Treeleaf who can truly commit, generally folks who have been part of the Sangha for at least a year.
If you think that you might commit to host such a weekly sitting at a reasonably stable time, please post in this thread or PM me with the time or ranges of possible hours and days when you would be able to do so. We will try to pick times that do not overlap as much as possible. If a host wants to commit to more than once a week, that's okay too.
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Gassho, Jundo
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Originally Posted by Khalil Bodhi
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