July 25-26th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - How To Stay Cool When The World Is On Fire

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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 42385
    #1

    July 25-26th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - How To Stay Cool When The World Is On Fire

    Dear All,

    Our Treeleaf Zazenkai is for 90 minutes with Zazen, Heart Sutra and more. We meet virtually in our Zoom Scheduled Sitting Room here:
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    JOIN ZOOM >>
    The password (if needed): << dogen >>


    For local times, please check the Practice Calendar here: TREELEAF NOW >> ( 10am Japan Saturday morning, NY 9pm, LA 6pm Friday night, London 2am and Paris 3am Saturday morning) or sit this Zazenkai any time thereafter here:
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    However, "one way" live sitters are encouraged to come into the Zoom sitting, and just leave the camera and microphone turned off.

    00:00 – 00:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English) and Dedication
    00:15 – 00:45 ZAZEN
    00:45 – 00:55 KINHIN
    00:55 – 01:25 ZAZEN
    01:25 – 01:30 VERSE OF ATONEMENT & FOUR VOWS
    01:30 - 01:45(?) INFORMAL TEA TIME (ALL WELCOME)
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    Chant Book is here for those who wish to join in:
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    For some more information about Zendo etiquette at Treeleaf and to help you be more comfortable with joining the Zoom room, please have a look here:
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    ATTENTION: Everyone, when rising for Kinhin or Ceremonies after Zazen, get up slowly, don't rush, hold something stable, you won't be "late", so TAKE YOUR TIME! Make sure you are careful getting up!
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    Gassho
    sat lah
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    PS - There is no "wrong" or "right" in Zazen ... yet here is a little explanation of the "right" times to bow (A koan) ...
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    The other video I mention on Zendo decorum is this one, from our "Always Beginners" video Series:
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    I also recommend a little Talk on why small rituals and procedures are so cherished in the Zendo:
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    Last edited by Bion; 07-24-2025, 04:04 PM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
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      Gassho 4
    • Junsho
      Member
      • Mar 2024
      • 275
      #2
      This comes at a timely moment. I just discovered that another war has erupted, this time between the Buddhist nations of Thailand and Cambodia. What are humans doing? Conflicts seem to be everywhere. We apparently need to continue sitting for peace and spreading the Dharma. If we can at least reduce 1% of the suffering in this world, our mission will be worthwhile.
      Gassho!
      SatLah
      Junshō 純聲 - Pure Voice, Genuine Speech

      Standing in protest against wars around the world. We must put an end to this insanity!
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      “Since, in any case, it’s just ordinary people who wage war on each other, everybody is wrong, friend as much as foe. The winner and the loser are in any case just ordinary people.
      It’s so sad to watch the world’s conflicts. There’s such a lack of common sense.​“ - Kodo Sawaki Roshi - To You (Page 66)

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        • Dainei
          Member
          • Jan 2024
          • 128
          #3
          My thoughts also go to Bion sweltering in Spain, with no rain on the plain.

          Gassho,
          Dainei
          Sat/lah

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            • Bion
              Senior Priest-in-Training
              • Aug 2020
              • 5620
              #4
              Originally posted by Dainei
              My thoughts also go to Bion sweltering in Spain, with no rain on the plain.

              Gassho,
              Dainei
              Sat/lah
              I am grateful for your warm concern! Strangely enough, we're having some really cool days and nights, so I am pretty happy!

              Gassho
              sat lah
              "A person should train right here & now.
              Whatever you know as discordant in the world,
              don't, for its sake, act discordantly,
              for that life, the enlightened say, is short." - The Buddha

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                • Kotei
                  Dharma Transmitted Priest
                  • Mar 2015
                  • 4608
                  #5
                  Thank you Jundo, and Onki for Ino-ing and Bion for the tech.
                  Thank you everyone.
                  Gassho,
                  Kotei.
                  義道 冴庭 / Gidō Kotei.
                    Gassho 2

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                    • Jundo
                      Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                      • Apr 2006
                      • 42385
                      #6
                      During the little Dharma Talk, I mentioned this silly movie ...

                      (By the way, sorry, looking at it now, it is not very PC or so funny by current standards, with some jokes about the disabled ... )
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                      And so it is no wonder that folks get the wrong ideas about Buddhism in the movies!

                      Gassho, J
                      stlah
                      Last edited by Jundo; 07-26-2025, 11:36 PM.
                      ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                        • Tairin
                          Member
                          • Feb 2016
                          • 3066
                          #7
                          Thank you everyone. I sat with you this morning.


                          Tairin
                          sat today and lah
                          泰林 - Tai Rin - Peaceful Woods
                            Gassho 1

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