Daily Chanting with Zazen?

[Doshin]

Risho and Jundo…I don’t chant a lot (mainly the Robe Verse) but you have given me a whole new idea for awakening in the morning with my favorite beverage!

Doshin
St

[Risho]

hahaha coffee how I love thee

gassho

risho
-stlah

[Washin]

1. the grind
Grinding morning coffee,
I vow with all sentient beings,
To inhale each moment,
dropping likes and dislikes

2. stirring the coffee in the water
Making moring coffee
i vow with all sentient beings,
to remember the purpose of all actions
is to awaken AWAKEN!

3. pressing the plunger
Buddha
Dharma
Sangha

I am stealin' this for my daily chant-book

Gassho,
Washin
stlah

[Meredith]

1. the grind
Grinding morning coffee,
I vow with all sentient beings,
To inhale each moment,
dropping likes and dislikes

2. stirring the coffee in the water
Making moring coffee
i vow with all sentient beings,
to remember the purpose of all actions
is to awaken AWAKEN!

3. pressing the plunger
Buddha
Dharma
Sangha

I think this might make an appearance in my daily practice

Gassho,
ST

[Bokugan]

I try to chant the Heart Sutra before sitting zazen. I am not sure if it's for good reasons, but I feel that it helps me concentrate or get in the "mood" for zazen, out of my daily problems and worries.

Gassho, Nikolas
Sat/Lah

I am very much the same! Chanting is deeply beneficial to my practice. I usually do Heart Sutra, sit, then verse of atonement and four vows. Sometimes I will do Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo instead, but not too often.

Gassho,

Ryan S
SatToday

[Tai Shi]

At 8:00 a.m. I chanted only the robe verse and rang the bell my daughter sent me which sounds high and crisp. She told me at the time that this bell was purchased at something like the Dollar General, a store dotting Japan's towns. At the time she lived in Chiba. In Japan you can buy these bells at many places. As Thich Nhat Hanh advises I do not strike this bell. Two of us, we started with the my bowing and placement of rakusu. I then rang our bell 3X.
Gassho
sat/ lah