April 1st-2nd, 2022 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI - Monk Kakunen

[Jundo]

Today's Talk will be by Rev. Kakunen, on the Realities and Wonder of
Zen Monastic Training

Please sit our Monthly 4-Hour Treeleaf Zazenkai netcast LIVE 8am to noon Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 7pm to 11pm, Los Angeles 4pm to 8pm (Friday night), London midnight to 4am and Paris 1am to 5am (early Saturday morning)), and also sitable any time thereafter:

However, "one way" live sitters are encouraged to come into the Zoom sitting, and just leave the camera and microphone turned off: Join live (with or without a camera & microphone) on Zoom at: TREELEAF Now OR at DIRECT ZOOM LINK, password (if needed): dogen

Dharma Talk Audio / Podcast Episode:
TO BE HERE IN A FEW DAYS

The Sitting Schedule is as follows:

00:00 - 00:50 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA IN JAPANESE / SANDOKAI IN ENGLISH) & ZAZEN
00:50 - 01:00 KINHIN
01:00 - 01:30 ZAZEN
01:30 - 01:50 KINHIN

01:50 - 02:30 DHARMA TALK & ZAZEN
02:30 - 02:40 KINHIN & HOKEY-POKEY RITUAL

02:40 - 03:15 ZAZEN
03:15 - 03:30 KINHIN
03:30 - 04:00 METTA CHANT & ZAZEN, VERSE OF ATONEMENT, FOUR VOWS, & CLOSING

ATTENTION: Everyone, when rising for Kinhin or Ceremonies after Zazen, get up slowly, don't rush, hold something stable, you won't be "late," so TAKE YOUR TIME! Make sure you are careful getting up!

Gassho, Jundo

STLah


PS - There is no "wrong" or "right" in Zazen ... yet here is a little explanation of the "right" times to Bow (A Koan) ...

Chant Book is here for those who wish to join in: CHANT BOOK LINK

The other video I mention on Zendo decorum is this one, from our "Always Beginners" video Series:

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (12) - Basic Zendo Decorum At Home
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...093#post189093

I also recommend a little Talk on why small rituals and procedures are so cherished in the Zendo:

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Small Things in the Zendo
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...s-in-the-Zendo

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[Jundo]

In another celebration of East meets West, we will dance the 1949 classic ...

Shamisen Boogie Woogie (三味線ブギウギ)

Ichimaru（市丸), a singer as well as a professional geisha. Born in 1906 as Matsue Goto（後藤まつゑ）in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, she left home in her mid-teens to work at a geisha house and gradually went up through the ranks to become a geisha but also did extra training to improve her singing skills. In 1931, the Victor Recording Company took notice and signed her up so that she could record 3 songs to start her career that year. ... Following World War II, Ichimaru, who already had recorded numerous songs to her credit, took an interest in American culture and especially one of America's greatest exports to the world, jazz. From this admiration was born the hit "Shamisen Boogie-Woogie", this rather eclectic mix of shamisen and swing.

Shamisen is a kind of traditional Japanese Banjo, and Boogie Woogie is Boogie Woogie ...

A translation of the words:

Shamisen Boogie Shamisen (sounds) Shanshan. Come on, dance Boogie Float Float Float Shamisen Shanshan. Dancing idiots, idiots who don't dance ... If the same idiots are the same idiots, it's a loss not to dance. Dance, Boogie, I like Hello Baby Shasha Ritsu Shanshan If you drink, don't get drunk. If you get drunk, don't fall in love. Boogie Ugi Floating Floating Flashy and cheerful Shasha Ritsu Shanshan Dancing gets better and better. Eggplant, pumpkin and the economy will get better. I like everything I like flowers, things that say things I like the most.
Come on, birds and butterflies all boogie woogie.

三味線ブギーで シャシャリツ シャンシャン さあさ 踊ろよ ブギウギ 浮き浮き 浮いた浮いたよ シャシャリツ シャンシャン 踊る阿呆に 踊らぬ阿呆だよ 同じ阿呆なら 踊らにゃ損だよ さあさ 猫もしゃくしも ブギウギ ハチョイト ブギウギ 三味線ブギーで シャシャリツ シャンシャン さあさ 踊ろよ ブギウギ 好き好き ハロー・ベビー シャシャリツ シャンシャン 飲んだ酒なら 酔わずにいらりょか 酔えばお前に 惚れずにいらりょか さあさ 花も実もある ブギウギ ハチョイト ブギウギ 三味線ブギーで シャシャリツ シャンシャン さあさ 踊ろよ ブギウギ 浮き浮き 派手に陽気に シャシャリツ シャンシャン 踊りゃよくなる ますますよくなる 茄子もかぼちゃも 景気もよくなる さあさ 粋も不粋も ブギウギ ハチョイト ブギウギ 三味線ブギーで シャシャリツ シャンシャン さあさ 踊ろよ ブギウギ 好き好き パッと踊って シャシャリツ シャンシャン 花と名がつきゃ なんでも好きだよ 物を言う花 一番好きだよ さあさ 鳥も蝶々も ブギウギ ハチョイト ブギウギ

[Bion]

Oh, this is all lovely and exciting! I am so delighted we’ll have Kakunen with us and your choice of music for the night… FLAWLESS

See you all later!

Sat Today

[Kaiku]

Are the dates correct on this? Usually Zazenkai falls on Fridays in my time zone but this one is April 3rd-4th. Unless I am just thinking about this wrong which is very possible since I usually sit with the recorded version at a later date.

And it still shows this:

Please sit our Monthly 4-Hour Treeleaf Zazenkai netcast LIVE 8am to noon Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 7pm to 11pm, Los Angeles 4pm to 8pm (Friday night), London midnight to 4am and Paris 1am to 5am (early Saturday morning)), and also sitable any time thereafter:

The Los Angeles time zone is only one hour off from mine and it still says (Friday night) like mine would be here in Wyoming.

Sorry, I just want to clarify and wasn't sure if this ones day has been changed for our guest speaker or other circumstances.

I am moving from working overnight shifts to day shifts and should be able to start attending the live sessions of Zazenkai (if it all works out correctly with my employer) instead of recorded sessions starting either this Zazenkai or the next one and I just want to make sure I have it all correct.

Thank you and sorry for running long.

Gassho
Bobby
SatTodayLAH

[Sekishi]

Are the dates correct on this? Usually Zazenkai falls on Fridays in my time zone but this one is April 3rd-4th. Unless I am just thinking about this wrong which is very possible since I usually sit with the recorded version at a later date.

Hi Bobby,

Thank you for posting. Yes, it is the usual Friday night / Saturday morning. I've updated the thread title.

Deep bows,
Sekishi

[Kaiku]

Hi Bobby,

Thank you for posting. Yes, it is the usual Friday night / Saturday morning. I've updated the thread title.

Deep bows,
Sekishi

Your welcome and thank you.

Gassho
Bobby
SatTodayLAH


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[Sekishi]

Zoom and youtube are ready to go. See you all soon!

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat #lah

[Jundo]

Hi Bobby,

Thank you for posting. Yes, it is the usual Friday night / Saturday morning. I've updated the thread title.

Deep bows,
Sekishi

Another April Fools ...

[Bion]

Another April Fools ...

Very excited to see what dancing you’ll do on the shamisen boogie

Sat Today

[Jundo]

Very excited to see what dancing you’ll do on the shamisen boogie

Sat Today

I believe it will be a cross between the Hokey Pokey and a modified Bon Odori ... I will follow Kakunen's lead ...



Gassho, J

STLah

[Bion]

I believe it will be a cross between the Hokey Pokey and a modified Bon Odori ... I will follow Kakunen's lead ...



Gassho, J

STLah

COUNT ME IN!!!

Sat Today

[Kaiku]

Another April Fools ...

I thought that’s what it was! Man, you got me this year!

Gassho
Bobby
SatTodayLAH


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[Onkai]

Thank you, everyone. Rev. Kakunen, thank you for sharing your experiences.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Anchi]

That was very lovely! Thank you everyone.

Gassho

[houst0n]

Thanks Kakunen, I had to sleep before the end but it was great to hear from you.

Al the best for your Dharma Combat!

Gassho,
sat
Neil

[Onrin]

Thank you Kakunen! お疲れ様でした！

The shamisen boogie and Kakunen's talk about the Tohoku region today somehow reminded me of this great version of a Tohoku folk song, Aizu Bandaisan. And you shoulder definitely get down to this one.

[Jundo]

The shamisen boogie and Kakunen's talk about the Tohoku region today somehow reminded me of this great version of a Tohoku folk song, Aizu Bandaisan.

I am trying to place the latin theme running through it (about 2:00 mark), Chris. Perez Prado?

Gassho, J

STLah

[Tairin]

Thank you everyone. This is a busy weekend here but I was able to sit with the first half of the Zazenkai and I hope to catch-up with Kakunen’s talk later


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Kakunen]

Hi

Thank you for hearing my Dharma talk.

I can remember this song.



Gassho
Sat lah
kakunen

[Tomás ESP]

Thank you Kakunen for the talk and thank you everyone

Gassho, Tomás
Sat&LaH

[Kotei]

Thank you Jundo, Kakunen, Sekishi and everyone!
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Prashanth]

I am unable to find the YouTube recording of this. Can someone upload, perhaps at least the talks by Jundo and Kakunen?

Sorry, I couldn't be there live due to the late time in Europe.

Gassho.

Sat today.

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[Bion]

I am unable to find the YouTube recording of this. Can someone upload, perhaps at least the talks by Jundo and Kakunen?

Sorry, I couldn't be there live due to the late time in Europe.

Gassho.

Sat today.

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It is at the top of the thread, but here it is, just on case



Sat Today

[Prashanth]

Thank you. Strange...I am a subscriber on YouTube to this channel but it doesn't show up in the recent uploads list

Gassho.

Sat

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[Bion]

Thank you. Strange...I am a subscriber on YouTube to this channel but it doesn't show up in the recent uploads list

Gassho.

Sat

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They might not be listed, I’m not sure. You can always find the video in the first post of the week’s zazenkai But you can always just ask if the need be!

Sat Today

[Kaisui]

Sat with you all today. Kakunen, thank you for sharing your beautiful talk. Thank you all.

Gassho,
Kaisui
sat&lah

[Kakunen]

Thank you for hearing my talk .

I talked my talk about Jomanji ,head monk Koya.

I find his new challenge in YouTube.
I practice with him for 6 month.Now also contact to him.



He said very important things in this video,and his English is better than me.

I will do my best.

Good luck and hope to your peace in your heart.

Gassho
Sat lah
Kakunen


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[Sekishi]

Thank you. Strange...I am a subscriber on YouTube to this channel but it doesn't show up in the recent uploads list

I'm not sure why (mis-click when setting up the video perhaps) but the video was set to "unlisted". This has been fixed.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat #lah

[Bion]

Thank you for hearing my talk .

I talked my talk about Jomanji ,head monk Koya.

I find his new challenge in YouTube.
I practice with him for 6 month.Now also contact to him.



He said very important things in this video,and his English is better than me.

I will do my best.

Good luck and hope to your peace in your heart.

Gassho
Sat lah
Kakunen


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My friend, thank you for this!!

Sat Today

[Prashanth]

I'm not sure why (mis-click when setting up the video perhaps) but the video was set to "unlisted". This has been fixed.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat #lah

Thank you, Sekishi.

Gassho.

Sat

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[Kakunen]

Hi

I also share some video and article.
Sekishi ask me about earthquake at Tohoku in my Dharma talk.

If you have a trouble in your heart,I recommend you to stop watching video.

Video near Tozenji at Yuriage.



Video near Shoganji at Kesennuma.



When I was at this earthquake,I was teacher at elementary school at Chiba,from Tohoku about few hour.

But so dangerous situations,I can not express word.

But as monk,like monk Koya said.
We need to think right way,keep calm.

We can not a refuse this fate.
I think Zazen is way of accept to truth,we live in earth with ego.

Please accept this fact and …

Let’s sit Zazen!

Gassho
Sat lah
Kakunen


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[Kiri]

Thank you everyone, and thank you Rev. Kakunen for your talk!
Gassho, Kiri
Sat/Lah

[Seishin]

Kakunen in my 5 1/2 years here at Treeleaf it has always wonderful to follow your journey, as you travel monastery to monastery in Japan. I have shared your ups and downs during that time, so thank you for todays talk it was good to see you back at Treeleaf HQ ! If it is at all possible, enjoy your Dharma Combat.

Deep bows sir.

Thank you all.

Sat for peace.

[Kakunen]

Kakunen in my 5 1/2 years here at Treeleaf it has always wonderful to follow your journey, as you travel monastery to monastery in Japan. I have shared your ups and downs during that time, so thank you for todays talk it was good to see you back at Treeleaf HQ ! If it is at all possible, enjoy your Dharma Combat.

Deep bows sir.

Thank you all.

Sat for peace.

I can’t forget my practice history.

I did lots of mistake.

And now I feel pain in my heart sometimes.

But this is part of my practice.

Keep on practicing together!

Gassho
Kakunen


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