Chanting & Zazen Circle (Mo thru Sa)

[Anchi]

Hi BenV ,

It is available in the Treeleaf Retreat Chant book which can be found in the following place on the site (it's formatted better too)

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


Gassho,
Anchi

[Jundo]

Is this group still going? For a bunch of chanters, you'all seem to have been quiet for awhile.

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

[Anchi]

Yes,this group is still going, Jundo.
l have been quiet for a while for my personal reasons with my health issues. ...unfortunately still i need to be quiet.

The Chanting and Zazen group is such a lovely group and people.
l am always there with my spirit.

Thank you for making it possible.

Deep bows
Anchi

[Nengyoku]

Is this group still going? For a bunch of chanters, you'all seem to have been quiet for awhile.

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

Today I saw six screens on the zoom meeting, but I'm pretty sure all of Vulture Peak was there.



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It was very beautiful sitting with you all again. Somehow it always feels like home.

Does anyone happen to know the book which Kumo reads Haiku out of? I found the first one today to be very powerful something like;

"Withered lotus leaves
Some broken, some not
float on a spring river"

Gassho,
Nengyoku
Sat

[Jundo]

Is the group still happening at Treeleaf, as I don't see many posts about it here?

Or did you all wander off somewhere?

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

[Amelia]

They reached the Pure Land!

Gassho

[Nengyoku]

Is the group still happening at Treeleaf, as I don't see many posts about it here?

Or did you all wander off somewhere?

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

Hi Jundo,

We do still sit here at Treeleaf. Most of the posts here were about what we were chanting that day, and as I understand it the group has more or less settled on a few regular chants as well as having a couple minutes at the beginning to add in anything requested. So not a lot of posting left.

Also, Yuki went on a vacation some time ago, and he did most of the posting in this thread.

But, we are still chanting off of cereal boxes

Gassho,
Nengyoku
Sat

[Jundo]

[Guest]

I’m always alive, somewhere in Florida. I miss you all !
黙唱
Mokushō
Sat today… in front of the sea sunset !

[HERRIEH]

Hi Jundo Roshi,


Sorry for the late response, i don't spend much time on the thread.

The Chanting&Zazen Circle is verry much alive and kicking. Every day, 6 day's a week for around 1 hour with always 30 minutes of zazen.
With Mokushō travelling we've been chanting mostly the same chant's although yesterday we added Sandōkai.
Mainly all chanting is in Japanese except dedication and the four vows. With which we end the Circle's practice. We do do the four vows in Japanese and all the languages of the participants of that day's practice.

So this is standard:
- Sankiraimon
- kaikyoge
- Maka Hannya Haramitta Shingyo
- Ji Ho San Shi
- 30 minutes Zazen
- Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo
- Dedication
- Haiku, Tanka, Waka, Buddhist/Chinese traditional poetry in (or with) English translation. (Sometimes also Zen inspired poetry of a growing number of participants. Treeleaf should start a special thread on that!:-)))
- Four vows. First Japanese followed by English, French, Croatian, Spanish, Russian, Danish, Icelandic, Swedish, German and Dutch (that's all languages i can recall, from different chanting practices)

We also are using a WhatsApp group for those participants who like to make use of it to share pictures, texts etc.

So, for instance, tomorrow i won't attend because of a family activity and i've asked in the Whatsapp group who can take the lead in coordination of the Chanting&Zazen of that day.
There has always been someone to take the responsibility. Very rarely it has happened there was only one person doing the practice, but most of the time we are between two and six participants. I' ve seen around 30 different participants since i first joined august 2021. A lot of new Treeleaf members find their way to the Chanting&Zazen Circle.

Gassho,

Hongaku Kyogen

STLah

[HERRIEH]

If someone wants to join the Chanting&Zazen Circle WhatsApp group you can text to me: 0031622528666

Gassho
SatLah

[Nengyoku]

Thank you all again for sitting with me today.
I always feel such overflowing compassion with you all, and Kumo's birdsong really accentuated that nicely.
Peace and good health to you all.

Gassho,
Nengyoku
Sat

[Guest]

Hello everybody !

A little reminder about where to find the
Chants often used in Chanting and Zazen Circle :

Sanki Raimon : English : thread #12. / Japanese : thread #115
Kaikyo Ge : English and Japanese : thread #461
Hannya Shingyo : English and Japanese : page 4-5-6 of Treeleaf Sangha Chant Book.
Enmei Juku Kannon Gyo : page 14 of Treeleaf Sangha Chant Book
Shi Gu Sei Gan Mon ( The Four Vows ) : thread #461

Gassho

黙唱
Mokushō
Sat today

[Anchi]

Gassho,

Anchi

[Guest]

Hi !

This week, we chant the Sandôkai. You find it in English in TREELEAF SANGHA CHANT BOOK, page 7-8-9.
Here is the Japanese text:

Sandôkai
*


Chikudo daisen no shin,
tôzai mitsuni aifusu.
Ninkon ni ridon ari,
Dô ni namboku no so nashi.
Reigen myôni kôkettari.
Shiha anni ruchûsu.
Ji wo shusûru mo moto kore mayoi.
Ri ni kanô mo mata satori ni ara zu.
*
Mommon issai no kyô,
ego to fuego to.
Eshite sarani aiwataru.
Shikara zare ba kurai ni yotte jûsu.
Shiki moto shitsuzô wo kotonishi,
shô moto rakku wo kotonisu.
An wa jôchû no koto ni kanai,
mei wa seidaku no ku wo wakatsu.
Shidai no shô onozukara fukusu,
ko no sono haha wo uru ga gotoshi.
Hi wa nesshi kaze wa dôyô,
mizu wa uruoi chi wa kengo.
Manako wa iro, mimi wa onjô,
hana wa ka, shita wa kanso.
Shikamo ichi-ichi no hô ni oite,
ne ni yotte ha bumpusu.
Hommatsu subekaraku shû ni kisu beshi.
Sompi sono go wo mochiu.
Meichû ni atatte an ari,
ansô wo motte ô koto nakare.
*
Anchû ni atatte mei ari,
meisô wo motte miru koto nakare.
Meian ono-ono aitaishi te,
hisuru ni zengo no ayumi no gotoshi.
Bammotsu onozukara kô ari,
masani yô to sho to wo iu beshi.
*
Ji sonsure ba kangai gasshi,
ri ôzure ba sempô sasô.
Koto wo uke te wa subekaraku shû wo
esu beshi.
Mizukara kiku wo rissuru koto nakare.
Sokumoku dô wo ese zumba,
ashi wo hakobu mo izukunzo michi wo shiran.
Ayumi wo susumure ba gonnon ni ara zu,
mayôte senga no ko wo hedatsu.
*
Tsutsushin de sangen no hito ni môsu,
*
kôin munashiku wataru koto nakare.

Gassho !

黙唱
Mokushō
Sat today