Shakyo Practice Circle #1, May 2021

[Heitou]

Jundo, I ordered a kit from Amazon and it come to me that way. I didn't know you wanted us to leave it out. That's my bad.

Gassho
Heitou
SatToday

[Jundo]

Jundo, I ordered a kit from Amazon and it come to me that way. I didn't know you wanted us to leave it out. That's my bad.

Gassho
Heitou
SatToday

Oh, no, nothing wrong with having that at all . You can write a short dedication or hope in the space below 為 .

Gassho, Jundo

[Heitou]

Roger That. Thank You for the explanation.

Gassho
Heitou
SatToday

[Stewart]

I'm so glad to found this in good time as I've been trying this at home.

I bought a copy sheet of the Heart Sutra from Amazon Japan (though they are everywhere here in Japan - all stationary stores seem to have them) - so no need for tracing paper plus a cross between a fountain pen and calligraphy brush - so no dipping in ink. However, I found controlling the brush for the small scale work quite hard and my first attempt was rather messy. I also tried to do it sitting seiza on a low table and that got me tense towards the end. I will do it a bit at a time in future and try doing it on a normal table. I've done it in seiza and at normal height tables in Japan, there seems to be no rule about that.

I also found a book for tracing Buddhist images in a similar and tried doing an Amida Buddha image yesterday - the pen seems to be better suited for this, at least in my hands. buddhist picture copying book.jpgamida copy 1.jpg

I did enjoy doing this very much though.

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[Stewart]

My sheets have the same lines on them.

Stewart
Sat

[Bokucho]

It all looks so good! For mine I used a fine point Sharpie, but I also have a small calligraphy type brush that I'll try next. About halfway through I started to wonder if I was even right side up, but since I can't read it anyways I figured it didn't much matter! Thank you Geika for the video, and Jundo for the in depth discussion, and all others for the inspiration!

Gassho,

Bokuchō
SatToday/LaH

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[Geika]

Lovely work, Stewart and Bokuchō!

Bokuchō, you did well with the thickness on a thin sharpie! I tried it, and it was a bit difficult for me.

Gassho,
Sat, lah

[Huichan]

Didn't realise we had this practice group until I just looked around the forum after doing some myself. I bought a pack from Taobao a few days ago, as I'm trying the learn the Heart Sutra in Chinese and thought it would be a good way to help with that. Also, my Chinese writing is generally terrible, so want to improve it as well. I just wrote the sutra out whilst having a recording of the Heart Sutra playing in the background. Not a great first attempt, but enjoyed the process

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Gassho
Ross
stlah

[Geika]

That is lovely, Ross. Welcome to the group!

Gassho
Sat, lah