August 16th-17th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Tairin]

Thank you all!
Sat the Zazenkai today. Unfortunately I didn‘t get much of what Jundo said - the audio was not so great on my side of the screen. ��

Gassho

Teiro

Sat/Lah

In a sense I am glad to read this. I have hearing problems so it wasn’t obvious to me at the time that it was the audio quality of the recording. I missed most of what Jundo said as well. Up until then I was thinking how much better Zoom was. The discussion at the beginning of the recording was clear.

Maybe it was just mic placement but I noticed too that the bell didn’t ring out clearly to the end.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Jundo]

What I said ... Obon holiday ... nice to respect and remember our ancestors.

Now nothing is missed.

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

[Jundo]

What I said ... Obon holiday ... nice to respect and remember our ancestors.

Now nothing is missed.

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

PS - Perhaps it was just like this at Eiheiji in Dogen's Time, or on Vulture Peak with the Buddha. I can imagine two guys in the cheap seats at Eiheiji listening to Dogen recite the Shobogenzo, and saying, "the Genzo What???"

[Teiro]

PS - Perhaps it was just like this at Eiheiji in Dogen's Time, or on Vulture Peak with the Buddha. I can imagine two guys in the cheap seats at Eiheiji listening to Dogen recite the Shobogenzo, and saying, "the Genzo What???"

Gassho
Teiro

Sat

[Nenka]

Nenka

ST

[Tai Do]

Thank you, Kyonin and Jundo for this lovelly Zazenkai.
A great Obon to all.
Gassho,
Mateus
Sat today/LAH

[sjlabat]

Very good,
The obon festival - to the extend I understand, sounds absolutely delightful. So many places have 'festivals,' commemorations, etc. where the living and the dead interact still - is this emptiness? Sure it is, but it also speaks to and of a deep need and experience that people have of talking with the dead, visiting the 'land of the dead,' where the boundary between living and dead is not quite so hard and firm as many of us 'enlightened' 'moderns' think of it - and that that can be a life giving and very positive thing
gassho
sean
sat.lah