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Dear Ino, taking it to the next level!
Our Monthly 4-Hour Zazenkai has the following main differences from the Weekly 90-Minute Zazenkai:
- The Heart Sutra is in Japanese, Hannya Shingyo
Recital of the Identity of Relative and Absolute (Sandokai) in English, with its particular melody
3 Bells between Hannya Shingyo and Sandokai accompanying the movements of the Doshi to the Altar
Slight difference in the Eko Recital to mention the Sandokai
Verses to Open and Close the Sutras
Metta Verses
The Kirigami is as follows:
Following by 3 Rings in this pattern:MONTHLY ZAZENKAI CEREMONY:
Begins with a series of rings of the small Inkin bell ••••••• followed by 3x PROSTRATIONS by EVERYONE
Then:
PING PING PING, TAMP and immediate CONK on MOKUGYO once.
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INO = CHANT LEADER ONLY
Maka Hannya Haramita Shin Gyo*
EVERYONE =
Kan Ji Zai Bo Satsu Gyo Jin Han Nya Ha Ra Mi Ta Ji Sho Ken* Go On Kai Ku Do I Sai Ku Yaku Sha Ri Shi Shiki Fu I Ku Ku Fu I Shiki Shiki Soku Ze Ku Ku Soku Ze Shiki Ju So Gyo Shiki Yaku Bu Nyo Ze Sha Ri Shi Ze Sho Ho Ku So Fu Sho Fu Metsu Fu Ku Fu Jo Fu Zo Fu Gen Ze Ko Ku Chu Mu Shiki Mu Ju So Gyo Shiki Mu Gen Ni Bi Ze Shin Ni Mu Shiki Sho Ko Mi Soku Ho Mu Gen Kai Nai Shi Mu I Shiki Kai Mu Mu Myo Yaku Mu Mu Myo Jin Nai Shi Mu Ro Shi Yaku Mu Ro Shi Jin Mu Ku Shu Metsu Do Mu Chi Yaku Mu Toku I Mu Sho Tok ko Bo Dai Sat Ta E Han-Nya Ha Ra Mi Ta* Ko Shin Mu Kei Ge Mu Kei Ge Ko Mu U Ku Fu On Ri Is Sai Ten Do Mu So Ku Gyo Ne Han San Ze Sho Butsu E Han Nya Ha Ra Mi Ta* Ko Toku A Noku Ta Ra San Myaku San Bo Dai Ko Chi Han-Nya Ha Ra Mi Ta Ze Dai Jin Shu Ze Dai Myo Shu Ze Mu Jo Shu Ze Mu To To Shu No Jo Is Sai Ku Shin Jitsu Fu Ko Ko Setsu
Han Nya Ha Ra Mi Ta Shu Soku Setsu Shu Watsu
Gya* Tei Gya Tei * Ha Ra Gya Tei Hara So Gya Tei * Bo Ji Sowa Ka
* Han Nya Shin Gyo
1st Ring as Doshi reaches left side of Altar,
2nd Ring as Doshi offers Incense
3rd Ring as Doshi steps back from Altar
... followed by:
FOLLOWED BY A DEDICATION - READ BY INO ONLY:INO ONLY:
The Identity of Relative and Absolute
(Sandokai)
EVERYONE:
The mind of the Great Sage of India
Is intimately conveyed west and east.
While human faculties are both wise or dull
In the Way there are no northern or southern ancestors.
The subtle Source shines clear in the light;
The branching streams flow in the dark.
To be attached to things is primordial illusion;
To encounter the absolute is not yet enlightenment.
* All spheres, every sense and field
intermingle even as they shine alone,
Interacting even as they merge,
Yet keeping their places in expressions of their own.
Sights differ primarily in shape and character
And sounds in harsh or soothing tones.
The dark makes all words one;
The brightness distinguishes good and bad phrases.
The four elements return to their true nature
As a child turns to its mother.
Fire is hot, water is wet,
Wind moves and the earth is dense.
Eye and form, ear and sound, nose and smell,
Tongue and taste, the sweet and sour:
Each independent of the other
Like leaves that come from the same root.
And though leaves and root must go back to the Source
Both root and leaves have their own uses.
Light is also darkness,
But do not think of it as darkness.
Darkness is light;
Do not see it as light.
Light and darkness are not one, not two
Like the foot before and the foot behind in walking.
* Each thing has its own being
Which is not different from its place and function.
The relative fits the absolute
As a box and its lid.
The absolute meets the relative
Like two arrow points that touch in mid air.
* Hearing this, simply perceive what is,
Make no criterion.
If you do not see the Way,
You do not see it even as you walk upon it.
Walking forward in the way
You draw no nearer, progress no farther.
One who fails to see this truth
Is mountains and rivers away.
* Listen, those who would percieve this subtle matter:
* Live well your time by night and day!
Buddha Nature pervades the whole universe, Reality, existing right here now:
In reciting THE HEART OF THE PERFECTION OF GREAT WISDOM SUTRA and THE IDENTITY OF RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE, we dedicate our sincere efforts to:
Remainder is the same as Weekly Zazenkai.
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* * * TAMP:
Sutra Opening Verse
(Kaikyôge)
(To be chanted 3X before Dharma Talk)
The Dharma, incomparably profound and infinitely subtle,
Is always encountered, yet rarely perceived.
Now we see, hear, receive and maintain this,
May we all realize the Tathagatha's true meaning. (* before 3rd verse)
* The Verse to Close the Sutras
May the merit of this Practice penetrate to each thing in all places, so that we and all sentient beings realize the Buddha way together. ...
All Buddhas throughout space and time, all Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas, Maha * Prajna * Paramita
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At the end of the Zazenkai, we recite the following all together:
VERSE OF ATONEMENT:
All harmful acts, words and thoughts, ever committed by me since of old,
On account of beginningless greed, anger and ignorance,
Born of my body, mouth and mind,
Now I atone for them all
FOUR VOWS (to be recited 3x , vibrant on the second, soft on the third time):
To save all sentient beings, though beings numberless
To transform all delusions, though delusions inexhaustible
To perceive Reality, though Reality is boundless
To attain the Enlightened Way, a Way non-attainable
Note that our semi-irreverent Japanese pronunciation guide to the Hannya Shingyo is here:
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...-irreverent%29
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