December 21st-22nd Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 41103

    December 21st-22nd Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

    My neighbor is coming with his high school and elementary school sons (my kids' classmates), so I am feeling like dancing the Heart Sutra today!

    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 8pm, Los Angeles 5pm (Friday night), London 1am and Paris 2am (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) ...


    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
    Last edited by Jundo; 12-22-2018, 03:21 AM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Kyonin
    Dharma Transmitted Priest
    • Oct 2010
    • 6752

    #2
    Hi Jundo!

    I'll be there live with my instruments ready

    Gassho,

    Kyonin
    Sat/LAH
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    • Doshin
      Member
      • May 2015
      • 2621

      #3
      Planning to bath in your smiling faces.

      Doshin
      St

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      • Jundo
        Treeleaf Founder and Priest
        • Apr 2006
        • 41103

        #4
        Hey Guys,

        My neighbor is coming with his high school and elementary school sons (my kids' classmates), so I am feeling like dancing the Heart Sutra today!


        Gassho, J

        STLah
        Last edited by Jundo; 12-22-2018, 03:24 AM.
        ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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        • Onkai
          Senior Priest-in-Training
          • Aug 2015
          • 3170

          #5
          Thank you, Jundo and Kyonin. I will join two-way, tech allowing. I'm looking forward to dancing to the Heart Sutra!

          Gassho,
          Onkai
          Sat/LAH
          美道 Bidou Beautiful Way
          恩海 Onkai Merciful/Kind Ocean

          I have a lot to learn; take anything I say that sounds like teaching with a grain of salt.

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          • Jundo
            Treeleaf Founder and Priest
            • Apr 2006
            • 41103

            #6
            Today's link ...

            ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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            • sosen
              Member
              • Oct 2018
              • 82

              #7
              Hi Jundo, Everyone,
              joining you all one way.
              _()_
              sosen
              st/lah

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              • Jakuden
                Member
                • Jun 2015
                • 6141

                #8
                Aw rats, missed the Heart Sutra dance! Stuck working late another Friday. Will probably have to catch up in Zazenkai bits and pieces. Have a great weekend all [emoji3590][emoji126][emoji1739]
                Gassho
                Jakuden
                SatToday/LAH


                Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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                • Onkai
                  Senior Priest-in-Training
                  • Aug 2015
                  • 3170

                  #9
                  Thank you everyone. I enjoyed practicing with the zazenkai. Have a great weekend!

                  Gassho,
                  Onkai
                  Sat/LAH
                  美道 Bidou Beautiful Way
                  恩海 Onkai Merciful/Kind Ocean

                  I have a lot to learn; take anything I say that sounds like teaching with a grain of salt.

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                  • Shokai
                    Dharma Transmitted Priest
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 6505

                    #10
                    Thank you Jundo, Kyonin,Neighbor family, Dani and all who sat and will sit. Jundo's teen years must have been seemed interminable. But, we relax, survive and grow.

                    Gassho, Shokai

                    stlah
                    合掌,生開
                    gassho, Shokai

                    仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

                    "Open to life in a benevolent way"

                    https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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                    • Doshin
                      Member
                      • May 2015
                      • 2621

                      #11
                      Thanks to all.

                      Doshin
                      St

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                      • Washin
                        Senior Priest-in-Training
                        • Dec 2014
                        • 3841

                        #12
                        Thank you to all for a lovely zazenkai

                        Gassho
                        Washin
                        sat
                        Kaidō (皆道) Every Way
                        Washin (和信) Harmony Trust
                        ----
                        I am a novice priest-in-training. Anything that I say must not be considered as teaching
                        and should be taken with a 'grain of salt'.

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                        • Jundo
                          Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                          • Apr 2006
                          • 41103

                          #13
                          Jundo in a previous incarnation ...

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                          ... those awkward years ...

                          teenjundo.jpg

                          ... finding Buddhist Practice in China ...

                          JundoChina1.jpg

                          ... finding Mina too (this was about 1985) ...

                          JundoChina2.jpg

                          Gassho, J

                          STLah
                          ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                          • Jundo
                            Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                            • Apr 2006
                            • 41103

                            #14
                            PS - And if anyone is interested in the Shokai Story, a lovely read ...



                            ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                            • sreed
                              Member
                              • Dec 2018
                              • 101

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Jundo
                              Jundo in a previous incarnation ...

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                              ... those awkward years ...

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                              ... finding Buddhist Practice in China ...

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                              ... finding Mina too (this was about 1985) ...

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                              Gassho, J

                              STLah


                              Thank you for sharing these!

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