October 4th-5th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

THIS WEEK, TO BE HOSTED BY SEKISHI and JAKUDEN

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i18NP7ac13w

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

[Ishin]

Hope to be there live.

Gassho
Ishin
Sat/lah

[Doshin]

Planning to sit with you...maybe live this time.

Doshin
St

[Jundo]

Just a word that l am away this week, for taking son Leon for the SAT's (US college admission test ... and he was just playing with Thomas the Tank Engine yesterday it seems! ) ... then off on the overnight sleeper bus from Tsukuba to meet up with Kyonin Sunday in Kyoto. His Session at Antaiji ends tomorrow.

So ... l will sit this one later, on timewarp!

Gassho, J

STLah

[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 should 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

Here are a few other 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.

- 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.

- If you are on a slow Internet connection and are experiencing drop-outs, try turning off video (you can always turn it on for a bit at the beginning and end to save and bow to everyone)

Gassho,
Sekishi
#sat

[Onka]

If all goes to plan I'll be there two ways.
Gassho
Anna

Sat before chat

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[Shonin Risa Bear]

Intention to sit two way.

gassho
doyu sat/LAH today

[Ishin]

Just a word that l am away this week, for taking son Leon for the SAT's (US college admission test ... and he was just playing with Thomas the Tank Engine yesterday it seems! ) ... then off on the overnight sleeper bus from Tsukuba to meet up with Kyonin Sunday in Kyoto. His Session at Antaiji ends tomorrow.

So ... l will sit this one later, on timewarp!

Gassho, J

STLah

I actually recall those days. Good luck Leon!

Gassho
Ishin
Sat/lah

[Sekishi]

Hi all,

We have two hummingbird feeders up for the last straggling migrators. Today a hungry hive of bees found one of the feeders and has been busy carrying off the sugar.





We’ve been watching them all day, amazed by their beauty and the frenzy of their work.

I don’t know exactly what tonight’s talk will be yet, but it will somehow involve these industrious gals.

Deep bows,
Sekishi
#sat #lah #bzzzz



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[Shinshi]

I will be time shifting but with you all none the less.

That is a bunch of Bees Sekishi.

We think we are down to one last hummingbird. They are amazing birds.

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[sosen]

sitting with you all live one-way

sosen & mundi
_()_
stlah

[Science Abbot]

I'll bee joining you live one-way, as usual.

Gassho,
Mui
Sat/LAH

[Doshin]

Had to leave a little early but was there for the "Birds and Bee talk" it was a good talk.

Thanks to all

Doshin
St

[Onka]

Apologies for arriving late Sekishi.
Your talk was excellent. I was sitting outside near some bamboo and while you were talking I had baby fairy wrens and wagtails flitting around at my feet learning how to get food by their protective parents who successfully keep opportunistic crows and predatory kookaburras at bay. Spring here is pretty special. We have around 200 species of native bees in Australia which is something my partner and I only recently learnt. Pretty amazing little beauties the ones at our place are too. We're planting more flowers, more native trees and letting some of our vegetables go to flower and seed in order to improve the habitat for native bees. To think of how much they contribute over such a small lifespan is humbling and invigorates my daily practice.
Sorry for leaving early too Sekishi but my spine is not playing nice.

Gassho
Anna

stlah

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[Onkai]

Thank you all. I missed the zazenkai tonight, but will sit with it tomorrow. I'm looking forward to the talk.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/LAH