Announcement: Special Zazenkai SATURDAY 10/15 w/ Myozan Kodo

[Jishin]

Very nice Anneliese. [emoji1]

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Washin]

Thank you, Jundo. I'll be away on that day and will watch the recording later.

Gassho
Washin
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[Jundo]

ALL ABOARD, LAST CALL ...

... for Myozan this weekend. I will make the "two-way" sitting group tomorrow, try to get as many folks who requested in as I can. Invitations will be sent by email, please look for them in the coming day.

Gassho, Jundo

SatToday

[Mp]

ALL ABOARD, LAST CALL ...

... for Myozan this weekend. I will make the "two-way" sitting group tomorrow, try to get as many folks who requested in as I can. Invitations will be sent by email, please look for them in the coming day.

Gassho, Jundo

SatToday

Thank you Jundo, I am looking forward to it, so please count me in! =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Sekishi]

I will make the "two-way" sitting group tomorrow, try to get as many folks who requested in as I can. Invitations will be sent by email, please look for them in the coming day.

I'd love to be there two-way if there is an available seat, but if not please give that spot to someone else.

Deep bows,
Sekishi

#sattoday

[Kyonin]

Hi Jundo,

Please count me in. But if you need to give my seat to someone else, please do. I will still be live one-way.

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

[Amelia]

Ah, shoot, it's too early for me. will join in later, though!

Gassho, sat today

[Tanjin]

A change in plans will mean that I have to sit this later in the evening on Saturday.

Gassho,
Jimmy
Sattoday

[Jundo]

MYOZANZENKAI HANGOUT 2-WAY PARTICIPANTS LIST:

Based on current requests, I have created a circle that has the following folks. You should all receive an email invitation about 10 minutes before start time OR (if you cannot find that) Shingen will post a link to join in this thread shortly before start time.

Remember that I will also be taking questions from oneway folks at jundotreeleaf[a]gmail.com (Please do not send now, wait until the Q&A starts after Myozan's Talk).

1-Marcos
2-Jika
3-Shingen
4-Kyonin
5-Daizan
6-Sekishi
7-Jundo
8-Myozan

We still have a couple of spaces if folks want to join.

Gassho, Jundo
SatToday

[Kyosei]

Hi friends

I'll have a compromise tonight, so I don't know if I'll be able to join two-way as I said before.

Probably I'll have to seat with this later...

So, please, I'm asking Jundo to give my "seat" to another brother/sister.

Gassho

Marcos

#SatToday

[Jundo]

READINGS FOR TODAY'S ZAZENKAI with MYOZAN:

From Master Dogen's Shobogenzo-Ikka-no-myōju (One Bright Pearl)

http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/BDK/bdk_search.php?md=normal&num=B2582_1

(translation by Gudo Wafu Nishijima & Chodo Cross)

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One day, in order to explore widely the surround-
ing districts, he leaves the mountain, carrying a [traveling] bag. But as he
does so, he stubs his toe on a stone. Bleeding and in great pain, [Master Gen-
sha] all at once seriously reflects as follows: “[They say] this body is not real
existence. Where does the pain come from?” He thereupon returns to Seppō.
Seppō asks him, “What is it, Bi of the dhūta?”7 Gensha says, “In the end I
just cannot be deceived by others.”8 Seppō, loving these words very much,
says, “Is there anyone who does not have these words [inside them]? [But]
is there anyone who can speak these words?” Seppō asks further, “Bi of the
dhūta, why do you not go exploring?”9 Master [Gensha] says, “Bodhi dharma
did not come to the Eastern Lands; the Second Patriarch did not go to the
Western Heavens.”10 Seppō praised this very much. In his usual life as a fish-
erman [Master Gensha] had never seen sutras and texts even in a dream.
Nevertheless, profundity of will being foremost, his outstanding resolve
made itself apparent. Seppō himself considered [Gensha] to be outstanding
among the sangha; he praised [Gensha] as the preeminent member of the
order. [Gensha] used vegetable cloth for his one robe, which he never replaced,
but patched hundreds of times. Next to his skin he wore clothes of paper, or
wore moxa.11 Apart from serving in Seppō's order, he never visited another
[good] counselor. Nevertheless, he definitely realized the power to succeed
to the master's Dharma. After he had attained the truth at last, he taught peo-
ple with the words that the whole universe in ten directions is one bright
pearl. One day a monk asks him, “I have heard the master's words that the
whole universe in ten directions is one bright pearl. How should the student
understand [this]?” The master says, “The whole universe in ten directions
is one bright pearl. What use is understanding?” On a later day the master
asks the question back to the monk, “The whole universe in ten directions
is one bright pearl. How do you understand [this]?” The monk says, “The
whole universe in ten directions is one bright pearl. What use is under-
standing?” The master says, “I see that you are struggling to get inside a
demon's cave in a black mountain.”12

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NOTES:


7 Bizuda. Bi is from the name Shibi. Zuda is from the Sanskrit word dhūta, which
means ascetic practice. Master Gensha was known for his hard practice, so he got
the nickname of Bizuda. The twelve dhūta are listed in Chapter Thirty (Vol. II), Gyōji.
See also LS 2.310.
8 The expression is ironic. Master Gensha makes it sound as if he would like to be able
to learn from others, but in the end it is impossible: he can be satisfied not with secondhand
knowledge but only by experiencing things for himself.
9 A hensan, or “thorough exploration,” is the title of Chapter Sixty-two (Vol. III). Here
it is used as a verb, a hensan suru.
10 Master Bodhidharma actually did come to the Eastern Lands (China), but “Master
Bodhidharma did not come to the Eastern Lands” suggests that he came to China
naturally, rather than out of personal intention. The Second Patriarch, Master Taiso
Eka, did not go to the Western Heavens (India), and “The Second Patriarch did not
go to the Western Heavens,” suggests similarly that it was natural for him not to go.
11 Coarse vegetable fiber.
12 Shinji-shōbōgenzō, pt. 1, no. 15

[Jundo]

We still have some seats open if anyone wants to jump in last minute!

Gassho, J

SatToday

[Mp]

Hello everyone,

Here is the event link for this zazenkai: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...kseh6bybj2ksee

Gassho
Shingen

s@today

[Kyonin]

THANK YOU Myozan and Jundo for making this possible.

What a lovely visit and teaching.

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

[RichardH]

Deep bows with deep gratitude.

Daizan

sat today