Our Special "Grass Hut" Zazenkai & Talk with Ben Connelly is Here! Please Sit-A-Long!

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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40597

    Our Special "Grass Hut" Zazenkai & Talk with Ben Connelly is Here! Please Sit-A-Long!

    THIS IS THE MAIN PAGE FOR THE EVENT


    WELCOME to our special "Grass Hut" Zazenkai guided by Ben Connelly ...

    The festivities are expected to last about 90 minutes to 2 hours, and will begin at 11pm Japan time Sunday (that is New York 10am, Minnesota 9am, Los Angeles 7am, London 3pm and Paris 4pm, all Sunday March, 22nd).

    The content will consist of one sitting of Zazen (30 minutes), Kinhin (5 or 10 minutes), a Talk by Ben (25 minutes or so), followed by a Q&A.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT BEN and his wonderful book "INSIDE THE GRASS HUT: LIVING SHITOU'S CLASSIC ZEN POEM" are HERE (LINK)

    A list of our "two way" live sitters is below. For "one way" sitters, the Zazenkai will be visible on the following screen during the above times and sit-a-long-able any time thereafter ... We are all "not two" way sitters! PLEASE NOTE THAT ONE WAY SITTERS CAN EMAIL ME QUESTIONS FOR BEN DURING THE LIVE Q&A (jundotreeleaf@gmail.com), AND I WILL TRY TO ASK HIM AS TIME ALLOWS.
    MAIN SCREEN



    Gassho, Jundo

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    SEAT ASSIGNMENTS:

    I AM SORRY TO SAY THAT, DUE TO EMERGENCY TRAVELS BY JUNDO, I WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO HAVE ONE HANGOUT OPEN, SO SOME PEOPLE WILL NEED TO BE ON STANDBY.

    We have 8 seats in the Hangout which will be on the Treeleaf Google Plus homepage (LINK). A few people, however, are on STANDBY for that group. The "STANDBY" folks should not try to come UNTIL I ANNOUNCE & REQUEST PEOPLE ON STANDBY IN CASE THERE ARE SEATS REMAINING at netcast start time. After that, IF there are still seats open before Ben's Talk, PRIESTS can come in last during Kinhin when I call for "Priests" if there are still open spots.

    I WILL OPEN THE HANGOUT, AND TRY TO SEND OUT INVITATIONS ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE ZAZENKAI BEGINS (as soon as I make sure Ben has gotten there. We practiced once, so Ben knows what to do).

    The people for this group are:

    Daiyo
    Shinzan
    Anshu
    Hotetsu
    Matt
    Joyo
    Shoka
    Sekishi
    Jundo
    Ben Connelly


    Standby (by request)
    Danny B (Standby)

    Priests (on Double-Standby): Kyonin, Shingen, Dosho, Shugen (first come basis)


    QUESTIONS FROM ONE WAY FOLKS DURING Q&A: I will be checking my email during the Q&A portion for questions to Ben from "One Way" folks. If you are a "One Way" participant who is not in a hangout, please email me (jundotreeleaf@gmail.com) any question to Ben, and I will try to read him as many as possible. PLEASE EMAIL ME DURING THE Q&A PORTION, NOT NOW!!

    Of course, we are all sitting in the boundless Grass Hut with Master Shitou!

    Gassho, Jundo



    Last edited by Bion; 05-14-2024, 04:32 PM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40597

    #2
    Dear All,

    The Hangout is now open! Come on in!

    Gassho, Jundo
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    • Shinzan
      Member
      • Nov 2013
      • 338

      #3
      Jundo, let a standby take my place. I'm still having a video problem. _/\_

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      • Dosho
        Member
        • Jun 2008
        • 5784

        #4
        Originally posted by Shinzan
        Jundo, let a standby take my place. I'm still having a video problem. _/\_
        Danny B....if you are out there, a spot is open!

        Gassho,
        Doshp

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        • Jika
          Member
          • Jun 2014
          • 1337

          #5
          Thank you, Shinzan and Dosho.
          I had problems on my side too and will now stay one way.

          Gassho,
          Danny
          #sattoday
          治 Ji
          花 Ka

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          • Kyonin
            Dharma Transmitted Priest
            • Oct 2010
            • 6750

            #6
            Participating one way only.

            Gassho,

            Kyonin
            #SittingNow
            Hondō Kyōnin
            奔道 協忍

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            • Joyo

              #7
              Wonderful, wonderful thank you to Jundo, and Ben and all who shared and practiced together.

              Gassho,
              Joyo
              sat today

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              • Meishin
                Member
                • May 2014
                • 824

                #8
                Thank you very much Ben, Jundo, and all. Beautiful talk, dialogue, dance!

                Gassho
                Meishin
                Sat today

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                • Mp

                  #9
                  Thank you Jundo for making this available to us and thank you to Ben ... what a truly wonderful experience. =)

                  Gassho
                  Shingen

                  SatToday

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                  • Jinyo
                    Member
                    • Jan 2012
                    • 1957

                    #10
                    Thank you Jundo for organising this and Ben for generously giving his time. Has given me a lot to think on.

                    Gassho

                    Willow

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                    • Anshu Bryson
                      Member
                      • Aug 2014
                      • 566

                      #11
                      What a wonderful talk! Thank you so much Jundo for bringing Ben to us. And many thanks to Ben for sharing his work and his teaching with us. Thanks everyone for your sitting and your contributions!

                      Gassho,
                      Anshu/Bryson

                      sat today

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                      • Byokan
                        Senior Priest-in-Training
                        • Apr 2014
                        • 4289

                        #12
                        What a wonderful talk! Thank you Ben, thank you Jundo, thank you dear Sangha!

                        Gassho
                        Lisa
                        sat today
                        展道 渺寛 Tendō Byōkan
                        Please take my words with a big grain of salt. I know nothing. Wisdom is only found in our whole-hearted practice together.

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                        • Shoka
                          Member
                          • May 2014
                          • 2370

                          #13
                          Thank you to everyone, what a fantastic way to start the day. Jundo thank you so much for putting this together. And Ben thank you for sharing your thoughts and commentary.

                          Have a wonderful day everyone.

                          Gassho,

                          Shoka
                          sattoday

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                          • Shokai
                            Dharma Transmitted Priest
                            • Mar 2009
                            • 6393

                            #14
                            Thank you Ben, Thank you Jundo, Thank you all! This has been a totally inspiring experience. Thank you Jundo for finding and choosing this book club selection. Thank you Ben for sharing yourtime and teaching with us. This is book has received the most active responses over the years. Thank you (did I say that agaiin?) for peeling this onion. It feels comfortable to sit in this skin bag

                            Best regards to you, Ben in all of your future endeavours, look forward to seeing you back sometime, gasho
                            Last edited by Shokai; 03-22-2015, 04:13 PM.
                            合掌,生開
                            gassho, Shokai

                            仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

                            "Open to life in a benevolent way"

                            https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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                            • Kokuu
                              Dharma Transmitted Priest
                              • Nov 2012
                              • 6853

                              #15
                              Thank you all. Greatly appreciated.

                              I really like the idea that the mix of secular and ritual practice is fluid and dictated by the needs of the community.
                              Makes a lot of sense.

                              Gassho
                              Kokuu
                              #sattoday

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