Sat without pain, stretches for hips

[Beakon]

When you can see Japan on your magic triangle in the dark with a sleeping mask on.

Gassho,

Sean

Sat Today
LIT


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[Meitou]

Lovely video and chanting, thank you Kakunen, glad you're feeling better.
Gassho
Meitou
Satwithyoualltoday lah

[Jundo]

Kakunen thanks everyone for their good wishes, and sends this additional message. This time, he is reciting the "Verse of the Kesa" in Japanese ...

I wake up because of medicine.

Before I sleep ,I sat near temple.

https://youtu.be/il6dy4T1r3Y

Gassho
Sat again

Good night

Kakunen

• Robe of Liberation boundless
• Field beyond both form and formless
• Wearing the Tathagatas Teachings
• Vowing to (free) save all sentient beings

Or Japanese (3x)

• Dai sai geda puku
• Muso fukuden e
• Hi bu nyorai kyo
• Kodo sho shu jo

[Shinshi]

These are great! Thank you Kakunen. And thank you Jundo for sharing.

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[Kevin M]

I’m glad you’re out of the hospital Kakunen. Thanks for the videos. I like the scenery and chanting and how the first one ended with a virtual-reality gassho with the camera tilting down and then up.


Kevin
#sattoday



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[Amelia]

Thank you for translating, Jundo. It was nice to be reminded of nature's calm abdiding. My journal is often filled with similar notes.

Gassho, sat today, lah

[Beakon]

Thank you for translating, Jundo. It was nice to be reminded of nature's calm abdiding. My journal is often filled with similar notes.

Gassho, sat today, lah

I started a journal this year, Geika.

That's a good idea to make observations about nature in your journal.


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[Amelia]

Journals are nice to go back to, and the small notes on the weather and holidays always bring back a full picture.

Sat today, lah

[Beakon]

Journals are nice to go back to, and the small notes on the weather and holidays always bring back a full picture.

Sat today, lah

Okay, that's right. When I went to purchase a samosa last week, the samosa man told me there is a prediction of heavy snowfall. I woke up at 5 a.m the next morning for yoga. To my surprise, there was a lot of heavy snowfall in the back lanes on the way to the bus stop. I need to write that down!


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[Kakunen]

Thank you every Treeleafer.

I feel that my English communication get better.

When I was at Antaiji,international zen monastery,I suffered,if I didn’t accept to communicate neighbors,I couldn’t live.

So I am here.
I am here.

Now I am with lots of people,practiceing Buddhism,making rise,keeping bamboo forest.

Every being want to be their happiness.

So I just accept,I just accept.

Thank you for your support.

Gassho
Nine bows

Today for me difficult to sit,so I do Kinhin.I accept this fact.

Kakunen


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[Beakon]

Thank you every Treeleafer.

So I am here.
I am here.

Now I am with lots of people,practiceing Buddhism,making rise,keeping bamboo forest.

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Nature is very healing, I find it useful for settling down restlessness. Keep up the practice, Kakunen. You are doing well.


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[Souchi]

Be well, Kakunen

Gassho
Souchi

SatToday/lah

[Kakunen]

I almost cure.
I went to forest and charging energy.

https://youtu.be/qkBLcIgheE0

Thank you very much.

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


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[Jundo]

Kakunen's Chant ...

Kaikyō ge 開経偈
(Sutra-Opening Verse)

Mu jo jin jin mi myo ho
hyaku sen man go nan so gu
ga kon ken mon toku ju ji
gan ge nyo rai shin jitsu gi.

he Dharma, incomparably profound and infinitely subtle,
Is rarely encountered, even in millions of ages.
Now we see it, hear it, receive and maintain it.
May we completely realize the Tathagata’s true meaning.

It is the verse traditionally read before reading or teaching from a Sutra. In this case, perhaps we can say Dogen said that the woods and mountains are also "preaching Sutras" if your ear is atuned to hear.

Gassho, J

STLah

[Nengei]

Thank you for the translation, Jundo. I liked reading that.

Kakunen, may you be healthy. I noticed you wrote of going to the forest for energy. Is this 森林浴 Shinrin-yoku? I am studying Shinrin-yoku and related practices in my graduate research. I am investigating how spending time in nature affects health. There is evidence that such practices have a positive influence on physical, mental, social, and spiritual health and wellness.

A regular (most days) yoga practice has made a tremendous difference in my ability to sit on my zafu for extended periods (in Burmese style; I have no hope for ever reaching more than quarter-lotus).

Gassho,
然芸 Nengei
Sat/LAH

You deserve to be happy.
You deserve to be loved.