March 2nd-3rd, 2018 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI!

[Meishin]

Thank you very much. The Metta Chant was powerful.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat today LAH

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo, Sekishi, and everyone for coming together and sitting. =)

Jundo, I have to say you look great ... wonderful to see.

Sekishi, well done brother ... you did a great job. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Jundo]

I am feeling to keep that "visualization" of the Metta Chant each month. Did it resonate with people?

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

[Shokai]

I'm thinking it was good.


gassho, Shokai

[Meishin]

I am feeling to keep that "visualization" of the Metta Chant each month. Did it resonate with people?

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

Yes it did.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat today LAH

[Kokuu]

Thank you dear sangha!

Yes, lovely work on the metta chants. Slowly it down is very helpful.

Gassho
Kokuu

[Onkai]

Yes, the slower metta chant resonated with me. Thank you.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat

[Sekishi]

Hi all,

The podcast episode is up:

https://treeleaf.podbean.com/e/march-2018-zazenkai-talk-dogen%E2%80%99s-hokyoki-part-iv/

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat #lah

[Mp]

Hi all,

The podcast episode is up:

https://treeleaf.podbean.com/e/march-2018-zazenkai-talk-dogen%E2%80%99s-hokyoki-part-iv/

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat #lah

Thank you sir. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Jakuden]

Finally finished the rest of this, wonderful talk thank you Jundo, and great job Sekishi!!

Gassho,
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH

[Washin]

Thank you everyone.
The new approach to Metta chant is wonderful.

Gassho
Washin
sat

[Meitou]

I am feeling to keep that "visualization" of the Metta Chant each month. Did it resonate with people?

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

Yes it did. I've made a point since of reciting it with that degree of concentration, trying to say the words rather than recite them and really putting feeling into the words as I say them. I think it would be good to do this with all of the chants now and again, it really helps to refocus on them.
Gassho
Meitou
satwithyoualltoday/lah

[Seishin]

Finally caught up with zazenkais and back on track. Found the metta section quite poignant, as I received a call from my brother yesterday letting me know my 91 year old mother, who in a Residential Care Home in North Yorkshire and has been in gradually declining health the last year was likely to pass away in the coming days or weeks. Another wave will slip back into the ocean. Difficult for the two of us as he cannot travel easily due health problem on is on the south coast and im here in France caring for my wife who had a servere agina attack a few weeks back, let alone our flood and canine problems which are slowly being resolved.

The metta verse helped me focus on my family and the staff at my mother's care home, who I've included in my daily metta over the last year. The visualization seemed to make it stronger if that makes any sense. It is so easy to get caught up in reciting words with no feeling or meaning. This has reminded me to be more thoughtful.

Anyway thank you and apologies for waffling.

[Jundo]

Hi Seishin,

Sitting for your mother, your wife and brother, and all of you.

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

[Eishuu]

So sorry to hear than Seishin. I will sit for your mother and your whole family. Much metta and will be thinking of you over the coming days.

Gassho
Eishuu
ST/LAH