Dear All,
Based on a traditional Japanese Buddhist rite, our Treeleaf Zazenkai this time includes a short ceremony and Chant to honor the electronics, computers, peripherals, software, wires, apps and smart phones which have served, extended and connected us. (details here: )
Please gather your ancient devices, hardware and software, plug-ins, keyboards and motherboards to be thanked for their aid, not tossed away lightly.
A taste of our Ceremony ...
Gassho, Jundo
STLah
Based on a traditional Japanese Buddhist rite, our Treeleaf Zazenkai this time includes a short ceremony and Chant to honor the electronics, computers, peripherals, software, wires, apps and smart phones which have served, extended and connected us. (details here: )
March 11-12th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - DENKI KUYO Memorial Service for Electronics
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...or-Electronics
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...or-Electronics
Please gather your ancient devices, hardware and software, plug-ins, keyboards and motherboards to be thanked for their aid, not tossed away lightly.
電気供養
A taste of our Ceremony ...
Today we gather to mark and commemorate the service and impermanence of the tools of hardware and software which are bridges linking our Sangha and lives, the strands of Indra’s Net and the World Wide Web, 1G, 3G, 5G and more, AI and Ohm, Bodhisattvas of boundless bandwidth, all passing from this sphere of existence as the world of technology constantly changes. They are extensions of the hands, eyes, and minds of sentient beings, and we are grateful for their service.
Dear Machines and Programs …
From the beginning, there is neither birth nor death, … nor invention, installation, running or true deletion. Yet all is booted up and shut down, and all composite things are impermanent, all files emptied, all data someday erased. Because of our particular karmic accumulation, like bytes and bits in an ongoing memory, we were able to encounter and employ you for the good of sentient beings, teaching Dharma and nurturing Sangha. ...
Dear Machines and Programs …
From the beginning, there is neither birth nor death, … nor invention, installation, running or true deletion. Yet all is booted up and shut down, and all composite things are impermanent, all files emptied, all data someday erased. Because of our particular karmic accumulation, like bytes and bits in an ongoing memory, we were able to encounter and employ you for the good of sentient beings, teaching Dharma and nurturing Sangha. ...
Gassho, Jundo
STLah
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