September 20th-21st 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:

ZAZENKAI BEGINS 4 MINUTES FROM START OF THE VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsGVZVvpbE

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO SIT LIVE WITH A CAMERA, A LINK TO JOIN WILL BE POSTED BELOW IN THIS THREAD. JUST CLICK AND JOIN BEFORE START TIME. 'TWO WAY' REQUIRES INDIVIDUALS WITH CAMERAS, BUT ANYONE 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

[Myoku]

Good morning everyone,
just curious: when exactly do the full floor prostrations happen ?
Gassho
Myoku
sat

[Jundo]

Good morning everyone,
just curious: when exactly do the full floor prostrations happen ?
Gassho
Myoku
sat

Because of our hard floors in Tsukuba, and folks watching from home with various health issues, l have everyone execute Three Standing Bows instead after the rundown of the bell at the start, and again after the dedication. l join people in Standing Bows during our regular Zazenkai, except l do Three Prostrations (just me) during our monthly Zazenkai which honors the tradition. You can do full Prostration if you wish, instead of the Standing Bows.

Gassho, J

STLah

[Ishin]

Thank you all. I will be sitting this one this weekend later. I am taking my son to a rodeo tonight. It is literally his first rodeo.

Gassho
Ishin
Sat Today/lah

[Kyonin]

Hello!

I'll be live two ways.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Sekishi]

See you all soon.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat

[Onka]

My intention is to sit with my Sangha sisters and brothers live two way but my spine is arguing the point with me at the moment after a rather crippling experience in ironing, measuring and cutting material for my Rakusu. Having to do some fast and totally not dodgy unexpected repairs to our ute afterwards didn't help haha. But hey, everyone's got challenges right...
Be kind to yourself and look out for each other.
Gassho
Anna

Sat

[Jakuden]

My intention is to sit with my Sangha sisters and brothers live two way but my spine is arguing the point with me at the moment after a rather crippling experience in ironing, measuring and cutting material for my Rakusu. Having to do some fast and totally not dodgy unexpected repairs to our ute afterwards didn't help haha. But hey, everyone's got challenges right...
Be kind to yourself and look out for each other.
Gassho
Anna

Sat

Good job getting that fabric measured and cut Anna :-)

Will be there with bells!

Gassho,
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH

[Shinshi]

See you all across time and space!

Which for me means this weekend.

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[Gukan]

I’ll be catching up tomorrow about four hours after the rest of you go live :-)

Thank you in advance, Jundo.

Gassho,
Libby
ST

[Kendrick]

I will make my best attempt to make it live one way but tonight is fall festival for my daughter and I am not sure I will make it back in time. If I do and am able I will be there though.

/\ Gassho
Kendrick
Sat/LAH

[Shonin Risa Bear]

Intention to go live today. _()_

gassho
doyu sat/lah

[Sekishi]

Hi everyone,

To join the Zazenkai two way, here is the Zoom meeting link:

https://zoom.us/j/4834831244

If you have not installed Zoom, following the above link will walk you through installing Zoom as an app on your mobile device or as a desktop client under Windows, Mac, or Linux. If you have already installed the Zoom desktop client or mobile app, you can use the link above, or simply open Zoom and join with the following meeting id: 483 483 1244

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat

[Sekishi]

If you have not installed Zoom, following the above link will walk you through installing Zoom as an app on your mobile device or as a desktop client under Windows, Mac, or Linux. If you have already installed the Zoom desktop client or mobile app, you can use the link above, or simply open Zoom and join with the following meeting id: 483 483 1244

Also, here are a few notes and tips for using Zoom that we've learned over the past weeks:

- When you first join, you'll need to choose an audio source (usually you can simply select "Join with Computer Audio" on desktop or "Call using Internet Audio" on mobile).

- When you first join, you *should* be automatically muted (this is how the room is set up, but I'm still not 100% this works as expected -- please let me know if anyone discovers otherwise).

- Each participant can switch between the "speaker view" (the default view) and "gallery view" (a grid / Hollywood Squares / Brady Bunch style view) whenever they would like
-- On desktop, click the "gallery view" / "speaker view" toggle button on the top right
-- On mobile, swipe right for "gallery views" -- only 4 participants are shown at a time on mobile, so keep swiping right to go through different groups, swipe left to go back to the "gallery view"
-- During the Zazenkai, the Doshi (Jundo) should always be "pinned", so in "speaker view" you'll never see anyone else

- You can mute, unmute, etc. with the control bar on the bottom of the screen
-- On desktop, hover the mouse over the window and the control bar should pop up
-- On mobile, tap the screen and the control bar should pop up
-- On mobile, so that your own picture does not take up one of the four slots you see, you can tap for the control bar, then tap "... menu" and select "Remove myself from gallery view"

- The free version of Zoom will only allow you to HOST meetings up to 40 minutes long, but you can JOIN meetings of any length (the Zazenkai, etc.) with it.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat

[Tokan]

Hi all

Will sit this one later as have all my kids to look after with my wife still out of town and I don't think they'll let me sit zazen without jumping all over me

Gassho Tokan (sattoday)