October 19th-20th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

Hello All,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast from 10am Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 9pm, Los Angeles 6pm (Friday night), London 2am and Paris 3am (early Saturday morning)

... and to be visible on the following screen during those times and sit-a-long-able any time thereafter ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST IS HERE:
CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO SIT LIVE WITH A CAMERA, A LINK TO JOIN WILL BE POSTED BELOW IN THIS THREAD ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEFORE START TIME. JUST CLICK AND JOIN. WE ARE NOW LIMITED TO 10 INDIVIDUALS WITH CAMERAS, BUT ANY NUMBER CAN WATCH LIVE 'ONE WAY' AND SIT-A-LONG VIA THE ABOVE SCREEN. IF JOINING WITH CAMERA, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR MICROPHONE IS MUTED::

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

As you can see, our Zazenkai consists of chanting the 'Heart Sutra' in English (the words are at the link below), some full floor prostrations in sets of three (please follow along with me ... or a simple Gassho can be substituted if you wish), followed by our Dedication, Zazen twice for about 30 minutes each, with 10 minutes of Kinhin in between, and we end the sitting with 'The Verse of Atonement' and 'The Four Vows'.

Please join us in the Chanting of the Heart Sutra (although please keep your microphone muted). You can download and print out the Chants we will recite at the following link (PDF):

Chant Book (PDF)

or

Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML)

Not everyone realizes that they can join in the Chanting of the Heart Sutra, Verse of Atonement and Four Vows (although we ask that you keep your microphone down). Please follow along with the Chant Book, and let your voice ring!

So, please join us as soon as you can, and we will keep a Zafu open for you.

Remember, when we drop all thought of 'here' 'there' 'now' 'then' ... we are sitting all together!


Gassho, Jundo

SatTodayLAH

PS - There is no "wrong" or "right" in Zazen ... yet here is a little explanation of the "right" times to Bow (A Koan) ...

https://youtu.be/GR6POpsXh9Q

The other video I mention on Zendo decorum is this one, from our "Always Beginners" video Series:

Sit-a-Long with Jundo: Zazen for Beginners (12) - Basic Zendo Decorum At Home
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...093#post189093

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo,

I will be there live two way. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Beakon]

Thank you, Jundo. I will be there two-way as well.

[Kyonin]

Hi Jundo!

I'll be there 2 ways

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo. I will join two-way, tech allowing.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat

[Jakuden]

Will be there one-way with you all [emoji120]
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH


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[Mp]

Hey folks,

Here is the event link for today's zazenkai: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts...hl=en_GB&pli=1

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Mp]

Lovely as always, thank you Jundo, Sekishi, and everyone. Have a great weekend. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Shokai]

Thank you Jundo and Sekishi, wonderful service and awesome talk

gassho, Shokai
stlah

[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo. A wonderful talk, and a lovely zazenkai. Thank you everyone. Have a great weekend!

Gassho
Onkai
Sat

[Jakuden]

Thank you Jundo, Sekishi and everyone [emoji120]
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/ LAH


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[Beakon]

Thank you for the talk, Jundo. The metaphor about the scratches in the wooden Buddha was an excellent use of wording about how all beings suffer, even Master Ehei Dogen. Thank you Sekishi for being the Ino this evening, you had sincerity in chanting the four vows. Let's get to work on saving all sentient beings, though beings numberless. Yosh!

Question, is zazenkai exclusive to our school of Soto Zen? How do we explain it to people who are in our lives, but not familiar with Zen Buddhism?

[Tairin]

Thank you Sangha!


Tairin
Sat today and will be LAHing soon

[Mp]

Question, is zazenkai exclusive to our school of Soto Zen? How do we explain it to people who are in our lives, but not familiar with Zen Buddhism?

Hey Beakon,

Our zazenkai both weekly and monthly are like a mini sesshin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesshin). Any school that I know of that sits zazen will have such practices. Granted they may not be the way we do them here at Treeleaf, i.e. online and recorded, but they are the same ... beyond space and time, beyond near and far (but there are some folks who are embracing the benefit of sitting together online) ... =)

Can you explain a bit more about what you mean about "explaining it to people in your lives"? Are you talking about our practice of zazen or that we do it online?

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Jundo]

Yes, lots and lots of meditation groups these days, with all those "mindfulness" folks, so very common now. Of course, they tend to skip the Zen and Buddhist aspects, such as chanting and the Heart Sutra and such. Like leaving the lemons out of the lemonade, the fuel out of the rocket, the water out of the ocean, if you ask me.

Gassho, J

STLah