March 22nd-23rd Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Remember Daylight Savings!

[Jundo]

REMEMBER- Daylight Savings in US and Canada! Check Start Times Below.

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 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) ...

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]

Good morning, Tree Leafers,

I will not be attending tonight's ceremony. I am volunteering for Theatre Projects Manitoba in their concession tonight. See you all next week.

Gassho,

Sean


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[Kyonin]

Hi Jundo!

I'll be there hopefully 2 ways, if Internet allows

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Kakunen]

I thought I try to go to Tsukuba.
But maybe difficult.

I will try to sit on one or two way

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


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[Shinshi]

Hi Folks,

I will definitely be doing the time warp again. See you all this weekend!

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[Jakuden]

Will be there with bells [emoji348][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]

BONG!!! Thank you Jundo, Jakuden, and everyone ... have a great weekend. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo, Jakuden, and everyone. Have a great weekend!

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat

[Washin]

Thank you everyone. Nice weekend to all!

Gassho,
Washin
st

[Kakunen]

Thank you,Jundo and Jakuden.

I sat with Nori-Chan,new partner

Have a good weekend!

We are at Nori-Chan ‘s home and go to Tokyo,and will go to beach house.

Blooming season comes.

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


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[Jakuden]

Thank you everyone [emoji120] Gee I thought maybe the gong meant we got to end Zazen early [emoji12] Yeah life is quite the Gong Show isn’t it!

Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday


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[newby_x86]

Thank you for the zazenkai erveyone, have a wonderful weekend

Gassho
Anant
SaT

[Jundo]

This is the kind of research I mentioned regarding sudden noises and like unexpected stimuli ...

A further example is the classification of meditation. A common categorization is to divide meditation into focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM) [11, 56]. Generally, beginners will be introduced and establish a practice using FA techniques, where there is a particular object to focus attention on (e.g., the breath), whereas OM meditation does not require an object of focus, but an aware and nonreactive acknowledgment of moment to moment awareness. In the case of FA there is an effortful commitment to sustain attention that helps to still the active mind. Once a student has established this in their practice they are then better able to practice OM. Lutz et al. describe a development in practice where “the ‘effortful’ selection or ‘grasping’ of an object as primary focus is generally replaced by the ‘effortless’ sustaining of an awareness without explicit selection” [11]. Differences have been found between FA and OM practices; for example, OM practitioners have been shown to have superior responses to unexpected stimuli compared to FA practitioners, reflecting a more distributed attentional focus.

E. R. Valentine and P. L. Sweet, “Meditation and attention: a
comparison of the effects of concentrative and mindfulness
meditation on sustained attention,” Mental Health, Religion &
Culture, vol. 2, pp. 59–70, 1999.

Gassho, J

STLah