April 13th-14th 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 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 VERSE OF ATONEMENT & FOUR VOWS

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 join us in the Chanting of the Heart Sutra (although please keep your microphone muted). You can download and print out the Chants we will recite at the following link (PDF):

Chant Book (PDF)

or

Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML)

Not everyone realizes that they can join in the Chanting of the Heart Sutra, Verse of Atonement and Four Vows (although we ask that you keep your microphone down). Please follow along with the Chant Book, and let your voice ring!

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

SatTodayLAH

[Kakunen]

Thank you Jundo.I will try to sit by two way.

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


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[Mp]

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

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Seishin]

ZOD all being well and hopefully I'll sit this before heading to the UK early next week.

[sjlabat]

Hi, Will try to make it
Gassho
sat
Sean

[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo. I will join two-way, tech permitting.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat

[Sekishi]

My son informs me that seeing conditions for Venus are unusually good tonight... I’ll either come in late or will sit tomorrow.

Deep bows to all.

Gassho,
Sekishi


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[Mp]

Hello folks,

Here is the event link for tonights zazenkai: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...lkuhe2xbgwtjie

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Kakunen]

Thank you very much.

I will sit by one way ,because of technical problem.

Sat today
Nine bows
Kakunen


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[Shinshi]

Our daughter is here so visiting with her before leaving on a trip tomorrow. Will catch up later.

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[Mp]

Lovely, thank you Jundo, Kyonin, and everyone. Have a great weekend. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Onkai]

Thank you, everyone. Have a great weekend!

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat

[Jakuden]

Thank you everyone! Lovely to sit with you all, hope you have a great weekend.

Gassho,
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH

[Joyo]

Thank you Jundo, Kyonin and all who sat. I was able to sit one-way the last 1/2 hour sit.

Lovely talk, Jundo. Have a good weekend everyone.

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today/lah

[Eishuu]

Thank you all.

Gassho
Eishuu
ST/LAH

[Seishin]

Sat this end to end this morning for the first time. Hectic few days ahead so took advantage of waking up early. Thank you all.

[Tairin]

Thank you for the talk Jundo. You touched on something that I’ve been thinking about recently. Why do I sit?

I definitely have reasons for taking up this practice. To be a good husband, father, son, brother, friend and resident of this plant. To be a good person. Through this practice I aim to live gently by following the precepts but also to recognize when delusions take hold of my thinking. But why sit?

I read this recently and the way it is expressed really resonated with me.

If zazen is truly useless, the first moment we do it, just as Dogen says, we have entered into a totally different realm. We are instantaneously off the grid, so to speak, of means and ends, of progress and goals. We are in a whole new world where what we are doing is not, cannot, be justified by something outside of itself, by what it’s going to get us, or where it’s going to take us. We just sit. We just are.

Source: https://tricycle.org/magazine/uselessness/


Tairin
Sat today

[Doshin]

Thank you all.

I give up. Is it or is it not a stick?

Gassho
Doshin
st

[Geika]

Venus WAS quite prominent last night, Sekishi. I was happy to notice it. It was so bright that I thought it was an airplane! I live next to a small airport...

Gassho, sat today, lah

[martyrob]

Thanks to Kyonin, Jundo and everyone.

Martyn.

Sat zazenkai today.


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[Washin]

Thank you everyone

Gassho
Washin
sattoday

[Kokuu]

Lovely. Thank you!

Gassho
Kokuu

[Meishin]

Thank you.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat Today

[Kotei]

Thank you everyone.
Gassho,
Kotei sat(this)/lah today.