TRAVEL DIARY: DHARMATRACKS Across AMERICA WEST (7/28-8/31) & OAKLAND RETREAT (8/9-12)

[Banto]

Just make sure our sea level Jundo does get all light headed. =)

Haha It could happen! LOL!

S2D/LAH

[Jakuden]

So happy to see all of you together and to sit with you! Thank you to Matt, Tom, Taishi, Jundo and Shingen and all their families for the support and help ❤️
Gassho
Jakuden
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[Mp]

Wow, nice job on the chanting Matt and Thomas ... =)

Gassho
Shingen

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[Kyonin]

Sat off line.

Thank you guys.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Matt]

Thank you Jundo, Tom, and Tai Shi for a wonderful gathering.

Posting a photo below of our group, including my wife Chris in her Methodist pastor robes.

Tai Shi: I'm sorry we didn't think to get a photo before you left. Please thank your wife as well for her support!

Also a big thanks to Leon for being a good sport tagging along on our activities. Leon is a fantastic young man.

ps thanks Shingen for the kind words on the chanting. Your job is WAY harder than it looks. Props to you and everyone else who does such a nice job leading our services.

Gassho,
Matt
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[Jundo]

OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! ... with Banto, in the mountains near DENVER. COLORADO ...

Our Zazenkai will begin in a couple of hours - 5pm to 9pm US MOUNTAIN TIME (!) as follows (same schedule as each month). Please join us for some "mile high" Zazen:

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXveO7c8hvw

Gassho, Jundo

SatTodayLAH

[Jundo]

Thank you Jundo, Tom, and Tai Shi for a wonderful gathering.

Posting a photo below of our group, including my wife Chris in her Methodist pastor robes.

Tai Shi: I'm sorry we didn't think to get a photo before you left. Please thank your wife as well for her support!

Also a big thanks to Leon for being a good sport tagging along on our activities. Leon is a fantastic young man.

ps thanks Shingen for the kind words on the chanting. Your job is WAY harder than it looks. Props to you and everyone else who does such a nice job leading our services.

Gassho,
Matt
SatToday/LAH

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I also want to thank Matt, Chris and their daughter for such a lovely, brief time together. To Tai Shi and his wife, for making a long long drive to be there, and for just being who they are. And to Tom, for the most powerful Heart Sutra recitation we have ever had here at Treeleaf. Chris is simply the coolest Methodist minister I have ever met, right down to the nose pierce. Chuck and Tom are golden hearted, and ... it was lovely.

When one travels, it is as one meeting old old friends who I know so well, yet for the first time too.

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

[Mp]

I also want to thank Matt, Chris and their daughter for such a lovely, brief time together. To Tai Shi and his wife, for making a long long drive to be there, and for just being who they are. And to Tom, for the most powerful Heart Sutra recitation we have ever had here at Treeleaf. Chris is simply the coolest Methodist minister I have ever met, right down to the nose pierce. Chuck and Tom are golden hearted, and ... it was lovely.

When one travels, it is as one meeting old old friends who I know so well, yet for the first time too.

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

Wonderful and lovely in the same moment! =)

Gassho
Shingen

SatToday/LAH

[Jakuden]

Joining you all for awhile.
Gassho
Jakuden
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[Mp]

That was lovely, thank you Jundo, Banto, Kyonin, and all of you ... have a wonderful night. =)

Gassho
Shingen

SatToday/LAH

[Jakuden]

Great to sit with you all, thank you Banto for hosting! Great talk as well. See you all in a few days!!
Gassho
Jakuden
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[Washin]

08:00 – 08:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English ONLY) and Dedication
08:15 – 08:45 ZAZEN
08:45 – 08:55 KINHIN
08:55 – 09:25 ZAZEN + Short Talk
09:25 – 09:30 FOUR VOWS, & VERSE OF ATONEMENT

Sat this part with you all today. Thank you everyone!

Thank you, Matt, for sharing a nice group photo

Gassho
Washin
sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

So Great to be with Banto and Jundo in the mile high city. Great! For five years we lived in Greeley about 60 or so miles from Banto, and there is where our daughter was born, and I began my sober life. Last week I celebrated 30 years sober, and it all began in Colorado, such a beautiful place with 14,000 foot peaks, in the shadow of Pike's Peak, and Long's peak. Such a beautiful time and place for Jundo and Banto as I sat with you.

Tai Shi
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Gassho

[Kyonin]

Thank you for the zazenkai, guys.

Jundo, the talk hit home for me. Thanks.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Joyo]

See you all in a few days!!
Gassho
Jakuden
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Really starting to wish I was attending. Parenting responsibilities make it impossible. =(

Gassho,
Joyo
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