May 31st-(June 1st) Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

NOTE: Our June Monthly 4-Hour Zazenkai will be Next Week, June 7-8th

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

[Jundo]

Our Heart Sutra today may be this little touch of Samba (featuring vocaloid Hatsune Miku) ... a touch of Zen Carnival! ... except that, after listening, I realized it is Bossa Nova, not Samba (apologies to our Brazilian members )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NgGg4f3Fgw

For those of you who do not know her ...

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is the first Japanese Vocaloid2 in the Vocaloid2 Character Vocal Series, the third Japanese Vocaloid created by Crypton Future Media, and is the seventh Vocaloid to have appeared overall; released on August 31, 2007. She is considered as the most popular and well known Vocaloid and the first to become a pop idol. The data for the voice was created by sampling the voice of Saki Fujita (藤田 咲, Fujita Saki), a Japanese voice actress.

Crypton had the idea to release Miku as "an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost."[3][4] When KEI illustrated Miku, he was asked to draw Miku as an android and a color scheme to go off of (based on YAMAHA synthesizer's signature blue-green color). Crypton also provided KEI her detailed concepts, however, Crypton says it was not easy to explain what a "Vocaloid" was like to him, and KEI says he could not create an image of a "singing computer" at first, as he did not even know what a "synthesizer" was. It took him more than a month. [5] The digital design on Miku's skirt and boots are based off synthesizer program colours and the bars represent the actual bars within the program, following Crypton's idea. Part of her design seems to be based on Yamaha's keyboard model DX-100 [6]

Many of you may know her from her J-pop version ... and many others ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aEJNj69wHU&t=50s

Gassho, J

STLah

[Shokai]

Looking forward to it

gassho, Shokai
stlah

[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo. I will join 2-way, tech allowing.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/LAH

[Kyonin]

I'll be there live with instruments ready!

Glad to have Miku-chan on board!

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Jundo]

I think this is the link

https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/vyq3f7eycnggpevs2to2yp3xyee

[sosen]

Joining you all one-way

_()_
sosen
stlah

[Shokai]

Thank you Jundo and all who sat or will sit. have a great week-end and keep on dancing !!

gassho, Shokai
stlah

[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo and Shokai and everyone. It was a joy to dance with the Heart Sutra and to "dance zazen." Have a great weekend!

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/LAH

[Ippo]

Thank you

Thank you Jundo!! Dancing was very funny. Allows me to loosen up and let got of some practice rigidity. Awesome!!

Have a great week everyone, always a pleasure to sit. Looking forward to seeing you all next weekend!

Gassho,

Brad

SatToday/LAH

[Shonin Risa Bear]

Wonderful. I read recently that the Sangha is Jundo's robe. Our dancing is also his dance, therefore he is a good dancer. _()_

gassho
doyu sat today/LAH

[newby_x86]

Thanks for the zazenkai fellas, have a great weekend!

Gassho
Anant
Just Sat

[Gero]

Thank you all for this Zazenkai.
Just danced the timeshift with you.


Gero (danced today)

[sjlabat]

Greetings everyone,
Sorry for being a bit quiet the last couple of months - my work often puts me on the road, and sometimes out of the country.
First, Jundo congrats on the book contract - look forward to reading it.
Second, incidentally, speaking of the dance of life, my wife and I will probably be taking our 20 yr. old cat on its last trip to the vet this afternoon. Without going into needless detail - cat's physical symptoms are getting more and more obviously painful with little upside or relief. I used to roll my eyes at middle age childless couples who turn their pets into substitute children! Now...here I am!
gassho,
sat
sean

[Jundo]

Greetings everyone,
Sorry for being a bit quiet the last couple of months - my work often puts me on the road, and sometimes out of the country.
First, Jundo congrats on the book contract - look forward to reading it.
Second, incidentally, speaking of the dance of life, my wife and I will probably be taking our 20 yr. old cat on its last trip to the vet this afternoon. Without going into needless detail - cat's physical symptoms are getting more and more obviously painful with little upside or relief. I used to roll my eyes at middle age childless couples who turn their pets into substitute children! Now...here I am!
gassho,
sat
sean

Yes, we have said goodbye to some pets too on the dance of life. Little sentient beings. The podcast I am recording with Kirk this week includes a question on the Zen of cats. I dedicate it to yours.

Gassho, J

STLah