Thursday Evening Zazen

[Genshin]

Hans,

I didn't see the Hangout on Thursday so could not join for the usual sit. Sat with you anyhow.

Gassho
Matt

[Myoku]

Hans,
in case the problem persists, I can offer to try working on it together, maybe we can find out whats going on or at least how to work around it, just pm me with a time suggestion when to approach this. Gassho
Myoku

[Hans]

Hello folks,

so AGAIN I tried to invite all of you to the Thursday Zazen, and again Google tells me that I am not allowed to invite the 152 members of the Treeleaf group. I did some research and found the following written on an official Google page:

"Guest limit for invitations

You can invite up to 500 attendees to single events and up to 100 attendees to recurring events.

To accommodate events with a guest list that exceeds the limit, you can invite the attendees through groups, allowing you to expand the total number of people you can invite to 10,000 people for one-time events and 5,000 people for recurring events

To allow for guest list of over 10,000, you can create additional events for every 10,000 invited guests."


So maybe Google is thinking that my invitations are a recurring event and will not let me invite all of you because of that.


Please send me a google message on google plus ( Hans.stucken@gmail.com ) five minutes before the hangout time ( 9PM Berlin time ) , so that I can invite those of you who want to sit manually.


Gassho,


Hans Chudo Mongen

[Myoku]

Hans,
I might be perfectly wrong, but I think its actually much simpler. As I understand it, you cannot invite to an EVENT, but who needs the EVENT ? You can always start a HANGOUT right when you are ready to do so and invite all the Treeleaf community (I dont think there is such a limit). This avoids the forth and back with single people telling you they want to join (and remember people tend to come last minute or a bit later). Hope this helps
Gassho
Myoku

[Hans]

Hello Myoku,

that's what I thought too...let's keep our fingers crossed...

GOOGLE, you have all my life in the form of data, just let me sit!!!!

Gassho,

Hans Chudo Mongen

[Dosho]

Hans,

When I create an event, I make a duplicate one. It carries over all the people from the week before and even this week I didn't have a problem. I thought that was the same as a recurring event, but apparently not. So, I would suggest when you are ready to set up the next sit, go to the previous week's event page and using the drop down arrow to select "Duplicate Event". Usually the time information is automatically corrected for the current week. It is very easy and, as I said, I have never had the problem with an invite limit.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Taikyo]

I'm guessing there isn't an event tonight (26th) as I've had no invite! Or is there?

Gassho

david

[Hans]

Hello David,

following Myoku's suggestions I invited everyone (152 people according to the group count) yesterday evening, and three usual suspects did join me for Zazen. I have no idea to be honest, why you weren't able to see the invitation on/in your google+ page.

@Dosho I'll try the "duplicate option" next week. I have zero idea where that number limitation came from, since it worked fine for many months.

Gassho,

Hans Chudo Mongen

[Taikyo]

Hi Hans

Thank you for your reply. I used to get the invite every Thursday (although, the idiosyncrasies of G+ did not always let me join) but I didn't receive any invite or email yesterday. Ho Hum I will try again next week.

Many thanks again

Gassho

David

[Genshin]

Hi Hans/David,

Just to add, I didn't receive an invite as such either. I just saw the hangout in my timeline.

Gassho
Matt

[Hans]

Hello,

after more than three weeks without a properly working internet connection, I am truly back online at home now and will be able to continue with my regular Thursday Zazen sittings. 30 minutes of Zazen will start at 9PM in Germany, 5AM Japan time, 2PM US/Central time.

Zazen will be followed by reciting the

Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo:

Kanzeon Namu Butsu
Yo Butsu U In
Yo Butsu U En
Bup Po So En
Jo Raku Ga Jo
Cho Nen Kanzeon
Bo Nen Kanzeon
Nen Nen Ju Shin Ki
Nen Nen Fu Ri Shin


Gassho,

Hans Chudo Mongen

[Genshin]

Hi Hans,

That's good news. I will try and be there tonight, but may not be able to make it until next week. Thanks.

Gassho
Matt

[MyoHo]

Hoping to join you tonight bro

Gassho

E.

[Taikyo]

Hi Hans, This is good news, however, can't make it tonight but will make it next week. Great you're doing Enmei Kukku Kannon Gyo by the way.

Gassho
Taikyo

[Kyotai]

Cannot join you, have to make a wonderful trip to the mechanic....

Enjoy

Gassho

Shawn