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[Meitou]

Thank you Jakuden and Shoka for such sincere and thought provoking Dharma talks and thank you Shokai and Kokuu for your samu. I pushed ahead a little by skipping a rest period and going straight into Unit 6; that's me for today, see you all tomorrow.
Severus, I hope you feel better tomorrow, thank you for continuing even though you aren't well, take care of yourself, sending Metta.
Gassho
Meitou
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[Jakuden]

Thank you for your wonderful teaching, Shoka, nine bows!!

Gassho,
Jakuden
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[Shugen]

Thank you for the talk Shoka and the Samu Shokai.

Gassho,

Shugen

[Kotei]

Hello,
it's around 1am over here and I am taking my overnight rest now.
Will catch up with the remaining two 'day 1' units tomorrow morning.
Thank you Shokai for your guidance and Jakuden and Shoka for your eye-openers.
Christian, "Gute Besserung", get well soon!
Thank you everyone,
Gassho,
Kotei sat.

[Shokai]

[Byokan]

So cool. Thanks to all for such dedicated practice. Beautiful Sangha.

Gassho
Byokan
sat + lah

[Anka]

Thank you Shoka for the wonderful talk.

Have to call it here for the day, too much back discomfort. We will see what tomorrow brings.

Thank you to all who are continuing.

James F
Sat

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[Jakuden]

Thank you for the beautiful little talk about Samu, Kokuu. Good reminders to take forward when Rohatsu is over.
Gassho
Jakuden
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[Byokan]

Hi All,

if you're sitting along in real time and looking for Day 1 Unit 7, it is pre-recorded. So you can just scroll down to that unit and join one-way.

Gassho
Byokan
sat + lah

[Doshin]

All efforts and participation appreciated.

Doshin
Stlah

[Washin]

Hi all,

Just finished sitting with the overnight units 4-7.
Thank you to everyone who participated on a Day 1.
Thank you to our dear Unsui for the great talks and their wisdom.
Sekishi, much Metta to you and yours

Hope to see you all on a Day 2 later today.

Gassho
Washin
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[Meitou]

Sorted Thanks!!!

Good Morning everyone. I have just resumed this morning with Day 1 Unit 7 and wondered if there is a text that allows me to follow the dedication that Shingen is reading out right at the beginning? The audio isn't very clear on my computer and I'd like to be able to understand better - it doesn't matter now, but perhaps at a later date so I can listen again?
Thank you everyone for your wonderful practice!
Gassho
Meitou
sattoday

OK; I just found closed captions, and will start again, sorry, my bad.

[Kotei]

Thank you Kokuu and Shingen.
I am up to date with the units now and still feeling them in knees and neck.
All fine. Gassho,
Kotei sat.

[Byokan]

Sorted Thanks!!!

Good Morning everyone. I have just resumed this morning with Day 1 Unit 7 and wondered if there is a text that allows me to follow the dedication that Shingen is reading out right at the beginning? The audio isn't very clear on my computer and I'd like to be able to understand better - it doesn't matter now, but perhaps at a later date so I can listen again?
Thank you everyone for your wonderful practice!
Gassho
Meitou
sattoday

OK; I just found closed captions, and will start again, sorry, my bad.

Here you go Meitou

DAY 1 UNIT 7 - SHINGEN - Beiko's No Enlightenment (Case 62)

PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY
The primary meaning of Bodhidharma's principle muddled Emperor Wu's head. The nodual Dharma gate of Vimalakirti made Manjushri's speech go wrong. Is there anything here of enlightenment to enter and use?

MAIN CASE
Attention! Master Beiko sent a monk to ask Kyozan, "Do people these days have to attain enlightenment?" Kyozan replied, "It's not that there's no enlightenment, but how can one not fall down into the second level?" The monk related this to Beiko, who wholeheartedly approved it.

APPRECIATORY VERSE
The second level divides enlightenment and rends delusion.
Better to promptly let go and discard traps and snares.
Merit, if not yet extinguished, becomes an extra appendage.
It is as difficult to know wisdom as to bite one's navel.
The waning moon's icy disk, autumn dew weeps.
Benumbed birds, jeweled trees, dawn's breeze chills.
Bringing it out, great Kyozan discerns true and false.
Completely without flaw, the splendid jewel is priceless.

All the Koans we are working with can be found in the second post by Jundo, at the beginning of this thread. (And also in the Book of Equanimity by Gerry Shishin Wick.)

Gassho
Byokan
sat + lah

[Meitou]

Here you go Meitou

DAY 1 UNIT 7 - SHINGEN - Beiko's No Enlightenment (Case 62)

PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY
The primary meaning of Bodhidharma's principle muddled Emperor Wu's head. The nodual Dharma gate of Vimalakirti made Manjushri's speech go wrong. Is there anything here of enlightenment to enter and use?

MAIN CASE
Attention! Master Beiko sent a monk to ask Kyozan, "Do people these days have to attain enlightenment?" Kyozan replied, "It's not that there's no enlightenment, but how can one not fall down into the second level?" The monk related this to Beiko, who wholeheartedly approved it.

APPRECIATORY VERSE
The second level divides enlightenment and rends delusion.
Better to promptly let go and discard traps and snares.
Merit, if not yet extinguished, becomes an extra appendage.
It is as difficult to know wisdom as to bite one's navel.
The waning moon's icy disk, autumn dew weeps.
Benumbed birds, jeweled trees, dawn's breeze chills.
Bringing it out, great Kyozan discerns true and false.
Completely without flaw, the splendid jewel is priceless.

All the Koans we are working with can be found in the second post by Jundo, at the beginning of this thread. (And also in the Book of Equanimity by Gerry Shishin Wick.)

Gassho
Byokan
sat + lah

Thank you for this Byokan, I really loved Shingen's talk and a couple of points really resonated and bought clarity to a couple of issues I have at this moment. But actually what I was referring to was the dedication read out during Kokuu's part of the sitting, which I think was a dedication to our Differently Abled Ancestors - as I say the sound on my computer wasn'y good, the close captions, although amusing weren't a great help. It may be that I've missed this somewhere on the forum?
Deep Bow to our Unsui for your wonderful work again this year.
I've now caught up and look forward to meeting you again this afternoon. Off to samu now
Gassho
Meitou
satwithyouallthismorning
FOUND!! I just thought to look in the new chant book, I'd been using the old one, I apologise for not-thinking mind!

[Kyousui]

Kokuu's Samu talk was especially meaningful to me. Wish there was a transcript of it for us hearing challenged folk.

Sat/ LAH

[Sekishi]

Hello everyone,

Here is the link for Day 2, Unit 1: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...ncpuy7pz2735ye

Gassho,
Sekishi

[Meitou]

Kokuu's Samu talk was especially meaningful to me. Wish there was a transcript of it for us hearing challenged folk.

Sat/ LAH

Kyousui, if Kokuu doesn't have a written copy of his talk, I can do a transcript of it for you.
Gassho
Meitou
satwithyoualltoday

[Koki]

I'm here for day 2, but it appears I'm only one-way.

Gassho
Frank

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[Shoka]

I'm here for day 2, but it appears I'm only one-way.

Gassho
Frank

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Kunzang,

Please take my spot and sit two way. I just left the hangout.

Deep bows,

Shoka
Sat

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[Koki]

Gassho Shoka
I will try

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[Koki]

Guess I'm,doing something wrong because I just can't seem to connect two way.


Will continue to sit one way

Frank (Kunzang)

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[Jakuden]

Guess I'm,doing something wrong because I just can't seem to connect two way.


Will continue to sit one way

Frank (Kunzang)

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I think someone else got in. I dropped out too Frank, you can try again!
Gassho
Jakuden
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[Shoka]

Guess I'm,doing something wrong because I just can't seem to connect two way.


Will continue to sit one way

Frank (Kunzang)

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Frank,

I dont think it's you. Looks like the hangout is full. So many dedicated members this year.

Hang in there, I'm here one way as well. Looks like there are 8 of watching one way right now.

Gassho,

Shoka

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[Koki]

Got it.
Gassho
Frank


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[Jakuden]

There are a couple of openings now for anyone that wants to jump in!

Gassho
Jakuden
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[Koki]

I think I'm not corrected properly. Should have run a test run.
Guess ill just wing it one way

Gassho
Frank

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[Jakuden]

I think I'm not corrected properly. Should have run a test run.
Guess ill just wing it one way

Gassho
Frank

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What is your account under? I can try to send you an invite.
Gassho
Jakuden


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[Koki]

Should be under my email address
frank.tatulinski56@gmail.com

Or may search by name
Frank Tatulinski

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[Jakuden]

Should be under my email address
frank.tatulinski56@gmail.com

Or may search by name
Frank Tatulinski

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darn it won’t let me since I didn’t open the hangout. Maybe shut down and restart, then go click on the hangout link again?
Gassho
Jakuden


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[Koki]

Well, no luck connecting. To be continued another day, but for now...continue with one way Rohatsu.

Gassho
Frank (Kunzang)


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[Jakuden]

Wow, Kyonin broke the internet with his chanting and Sekishi made it snow in Virginia, way to go guys!!

Gassho, Jakuden
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[Sekishi]

Wow, Kyonin broke the internet with his chanting and Sekishi made it snow in Virginia, way to go guys!!

Thank you all for practicing together.

Also one minor housekeeping point, the recorded Oryoki coming up next is with Shingen (not Shugen as I said earlier).

Making it snow ain't like keeping your facts straight.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat

[Meitou]

Wow, Kyonin broke the internet with his chanting and Sekishi made it snow in Virginia, way to go guys!!

Gassho, Jakuden
SatToday

Meitou
satwithyoualltoday

[Byokan]

Hi All,

here is the link for Day 2 Unit 3...

https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...p7xfpit2otqgme

Gassho
Byokan
sat + lah

[Koki]

Byokan

That link pops up indicating an error.

Frank


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[Byokan]

Byokan

That link pops up indicating an error.

Frank


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Oh Frank! I'm sorry you didn't get in to sit live. But you know we felt your presence even if we didn't see your face. We sit together beyond space and time and technical gremlins. Hope you were able to click on the link to sit live one-way?

Gassho
Byokan
sat + lah

[Jakuden]

Oh Frank! I'm sorry you didn't get in to sit live. But you know we felt your presence even if we didn't see your face. We sit together beyond space and time and technical gremlins. Hope you were able to click on the link to sit live one-way?

Gassho
Byokan
sat + lah

I think Frank eventually got in! Thank you for your beautiful talk dear Byokan
Gassho
Jakuden
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[Koki]

Byokan..

I FINALLY figured it out this afternoon. It's my iPad not having sufficient memory.

I used my Smart Phone and got right in!

Hope for continued good technical luck!

Wahoo!
Gassho Y'all

Frank (Kunzang)

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[Koki]

And THANK YOU for that link. That helped a lot too#


Frank

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[Byokan]

Byokan..

I FINALLY figured it out this afternoon. It's my iPad not having sufficient memory.

I used my Smart Phone and got right in!

Hope for continued good technical luck!

Wahoo!
Gassho Y'all

Frank (Kunzang)

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Ah! Who'da thunk it? Good detective work.

Gassho
Byokan
sat + lah

[Jakuden]

Here's the link for Day 2 Unit 4, Samu with Shokai!

https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...o3sxgjziue7dee

Gassho,
Jakuden
SatToday

[Kyousui]

Kyousui, if Kokuu doesn't have a written copy of his talk, I can do a transcript of it for you.
Gassho
Meitou
satwithyoualltoday

That would be much appreciated!

Sat LaH

[Kyonin]

Hello dear sangha,

Here's the link for Day 2 Unit 5 https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...pkislam5cvv2ye

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Shokai]

Thank you Kyonin for the wonderful teaching

gassho, Shokai

[Jakuden]

Deep bows Kyonin. Thank you for your wisdom as always...

And did I hear you say “hamburger hole!?”
(It’s “pie hole” here, I think, Lol!!)

Gassho
Jakuden
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[Koki]

Yes, I heard hamburger hole too

It's ok, I like hamburger and pie...and wonderful words of wisdom, Kyonin!

Gassho
Frank (Kunzang)

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[Beakon]

Dear Sangha,

I'm looking forward to posting about how my own ango and Rohatsu is going, there are unexpected frustrations and welcome temptations in this sesshin. My wife came home from a bake sale, then attempted to feed me cookies while I was sitting in zazen. For most of the day, there is noble silence, when she gets home from work we have to communicate in pictionary-ese. It's a small apartment, so it's impossible to avoid each other. The noble silence has reminded us there is more than one form of communication which deepened our connection.

I'm having difficulty keeping on schedule, also with muscle pain in the ankle and leg. When I was young, two local bullies pushed me down in a skating rink. The attack altered the position of my foot. When I sit zazen for long periods I have to stop and rest my ankle. If anyone could suggest accommodations or instructions for building up to lotus, I would be most grateful.

I have also disocvered how oblivious I was to how to access the live hangout links, I've been searching for them! D'oh! Oh well, I've been inspired to learn more about koans, as my grandma says "knowledge is never hard to carry around". As an active job seeker, I've come up with the concept of a spiritual resume. Perhaps, in order to be an entry-level Zen student, layperson, one must have experience answering koans? I chide, hm, maybe not? Gassho.

[Shugen]

Here is the link for 2 - 6:
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...06458&hl=en_GB
Gassho,

Shugen

[Kyonin]

Deep bows Kyonin. Thank you for your wisdom as always...

And did I hear you say “hamburger hole!?”
(It’s “pie hole” here, I think, Lol!!)

So it's pie! I kind of remembered it was something to do with food. Pie! LOL

Gassho,

Kyonin