Chanting & Zazen Circle (Mo thru Sa)

[Ryokudo]

Hi All,

I am currently snowed under in client meetings so will not make tonight, or at least not until midway through.

However I'm sure you can sort out the session without my interfering anyway

Gassho,

Ryokudo

[aprapti]

Hi All,

I am currently snowed under in client meetings so will not make tonight, or at least not until midway through.

However I'm sure you can sort out the session without my interfering anyway

we swim and try to keep our heads above the water..



aprapti

sat

[Ryokudo]

we swim and try to keep our heads above the water..



aprapti

sat

Yes mi hermano, and sometimes you just have to dive through the waves go underwater. We always return to the surface and our lungs are all the fitter for it.

Anyway, working late is just a particularly brutal form of zazen...……….

In gassho,

Ryokudo

SAT/LAH

[Anchi]

Hi Chanting Brothers,

l will be busy with dogs in the afternoon on Monday and Wednesday.
I probably won't be there .....I will try but no promises.

May your practice be a cause of happiness!

Wishing you all a good week!

With deep bows,
nobody

[Guest]

Hey,

Back from camping, found an empty room at Chanting and Zazen Circle. Filled it with Sanki Raimon, chanted HAKUIN ZENJI ZAZEN WASAN in Japanese, Jin ho san shi and Shi Gu Sei Gan Mon, always in Japanese.


Yuki

Of course, I also sat …………….

[Anchi]

Welcome back Yuki!

On Saturday i found an empty room at ⭕️Chanting and Zazen Circle it was me with my shadow.
I'm sure it won't be an empty room today.

It is always pleasant and joyful to sit with You and everybody.

See you soon

Gassho

[Guest]

Hi everybody !

Aprapti and me decided to follow this program this week.

Sanki Raimon ( Japanese)
SANKI RAIMON
三帰礼文（さんきらいもん）


LEADER : JI KIE BUTSU 自帰依仏（じきえぶつ）

ALL : TO GAN SHU JÔ 当願衆生（とうがんしゅじょう）
TAI GE DAI JÔ 体解大道（たいげだいどう）
OTSU MU JÔ I 発無上意（ほつむじょうい）



LEADER : JI KIE HO 自帰依法（じきえほう）

ALL : TO GAN SHU JÔ 当願衆生（とうがんしゅじょう）
JIN NYU KYO ZO 深入経蔵（じんにゅうきょうぞう）
CHI E NYO KAI 智慧如海（ちえにょかい）


LEADER : JI KIE SO 自帰依僧（じきえそう）

ALL : TO GAN SHU JÔ 当願衆生（とうがんしゅじょう）
TÔ RI DAI SHU 統理大衆（とうりだいしゅう）
IS-SAI MU GE 一切無礙（いっさいむげ）

Precious Mirror Samadhi (English)

(Hōkyō zanmai 宝鏡三昧)
The dharma of thusness is intimately
transmitted by buddhas and ancestors.
Now you have it; preserve it well.
◎ A silver bowl filled with snow, a heron hidden in the moon.
Taken as similar, they are not the same; not distinguished, their places are known.
The meaning does not reside in the words, but a pivotal moment brings it forth.
Move and you are trapped,
miss and you fall into doubt and vacillation.
Turning away and touching are both wrong, for it is like a massive fire.
Just to portray it in literary form is to stain it with defilement.
In darkest night it is perfectly clear; in the light of dawn it is hidden.
It is a standard for all things; its use removes all suffering.

Although it is not constructed, it is not beyond words.
Like facing a precious mirror;
form and reflection behold each other.
You are not it,
but in truth it is you.
Like a newborn child,
it is fully endowed with five aspects.
No going, no coming, no arising, no abiding; "Baba wawa" - is anything said or not?
In the end it says nothing,
for the words are not yet right.
In the hexagram "double fire,"
when main and subsidiary lines are transposed,
piled up they become three; the permutations make five.
Like the taste of the five-flavored herb, like the five-pronged vajra.
Wondrously embraced within the complete, drumming and singing begin together.
Penetrate the source and travel the pathways, embrace the territory and treasure the roads.

You would do well to respect this; do not neglect it.
Natural and wondrous,
it is not a matter of delusion or enlightenment.
Within causes and conditions, time and season, it is serene and illuminating.
So minute it enters where there is no gap, so vast it transcends dimension.
A hairsbreadth deviation, and you are out of tune.
Now there are sudden and gradual,
in which teachings and approaches arise.
With teachings and approaches distinguished, each has its standard.
Whether teachings and approaches are mastered or not, reality constantly flows,
Outside still and inside trembling, like tethered colts or cowering rats.
The ancient sages grieved for them, and offered them the dharma.
Led by their inverted views, they take black for white.

When inverted thinking stops,
the affirming mind naturally accords.
If you want to follow in the ancient tracks, please observe the sages of the past.
One on the verge of realizing the buddha way contemplated a tree for ten kalpas.
◎ Like a battle-scarred tiger,
like a horse with shanks gone grey.
Because some are vulgar, jeweled tables and ornate robes.
Because others are wide-eyed, cats and white oxen.
◎ With his archer's skill,
Yi hit the mark at a hundred paces.
But when arrows meet head-on, how could it be a matter of skill?
The wooden man starts to sing, the stone woman gets up dancing.
It is not reached by feelings or consciousness; how could it involve deliberation?
Ministers serve their lords, children obey their parents.

Not obeying is not filial, Failure to serve is no help.
With practice hidden, function secretly, like a fool, like an idiot.
● Just to continue in this way
● is called the host within the host.

Dedication

Zazen

Haïkus

Four vows (Dutch)

We are waiting for you !

Yuki

Of course, I sat today

[Anchi]

Aloha everybody,

It sounds lovely, as ever, it is lovely how the circle is ever changing.

Thank you Yuki & Aprāpti

It’s great to sit and chant in so good company !

See you tomorrow !

In Gassho,
nobody

[Ryokudo]

Hey all I'm back from hols so I shall see you later, my zen family.

And it's great that you have sat empty zen in the room. Always we are all there, just at different times and not visible.

In deep gassho,

Ryokudo.

SAT/LAH

[aprapti]

Hi everybody !

Aprapti and me decided to follow this program this week.

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Four vows (Dutch)

We are waiting for you !

maybe 3 times vows in dutch is a bit overdone..




aprapti

sat

[Ryokudo]

Hey all here is a link to the song of zazen by haukin that will be used as the basis of the chanting next week it is on page 16 I think

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/content.php?206-Treeleaf-Retreat-Chant-Book

Many thanks

Gassho
,

Ryokudo

SAT/LAH

Hello all,

As ever it was wonderful sitting and chanting with you all this evening, I hope you enjoyed it.

It was also great to see some new faces, welcome one and all and we hope to see you again, real soon.

As promised for those who may be new here I have reposted the link to the Treeleaf Retreat Chant Book for Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo amongst many other lovely texts. If for some reason the link doesn't work the way to find it on Treeleaf is as follows :-

Home > Sutras > Treeleaf Retreat Chant Book > TREELEAFCHANTBOOKFORRETREAT11252011.pdf

Thanks one and all for your practice and see you soon,

Gassho

Ryokudo,

SAT/LAH

[Ryokudo]

Hey all,

For this week as I have posted the link above, I suggest we start on Monday with :

Sanki Raimon
Song of Hakuin Reading
Maka Hannya Shin Gyo
Zazen
Haiku
4 vows.

How does that sound?

Please feel free to come with any alternatives either today or tonight.

Many thanks my friends,

Ryokudo

[aprapti]

Hey all,

For this week as I have posted the link above, I suggest we start on Monday with :

Sanki Raimon
Song of Hakuin Reading
Maka Hannya Shin Gyo
Zazen
Haiku
4 vows.

How does that sound?

Please feel free to come with any alternatives either today or tonight.

Many thanks my friends,

Ryokudo

aprapti

sat

[Guest]

Yuki (雪)

Sat somewhere in the Universe during the last 24H.

[Anchi]