Oct. 25-26th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai & 'DENKI KUYO' Memorial Service for Electronics

[Jundo]

Based on a traditional Japanese Buddhist rite, our Zazenkai this time includes a short ceremony to honor the electronics, computers, peripherals, software, wires, apps and smart phones which have served, extended and connected us. (details below)

Gather your old devices, hardware and software, plug-ins, keyboards and motherboards to be thanked for their aid, not tossed away lightly.

電気供養

Then come join the celebration and '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 ~12 MINUTES FROM START OF THE VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrxSD6wlGE

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

[Jundo]

Welcome to our second Treeleaf "Denki Kuyo" (電気供養), Memorial Service for Electronics, and especially communications devices, which have left the digital world, been supplanted, unplugged, replaced and erased, and are otherwise ready to be recycled into future incarnations ...

This ceremony is based on an older tradition in Japan to honor farm implements, kitchen utensils, old toys and the like which have aided and enriched our lives, been extensions of our hands and tools of our sentient minds, such as this "Hari Kuyo" for dulled and broken sewing needles and pins ...

https://youtu.be/DA8mHZXhcYE

As we are a Zen Sangha connected by electrons and light, silicon and Sutras, we feel that it is important to honor the equipment and platforms that serve as our "temple halls and pavilions," for they have made our community possible. In fact, this is our second such ceremony (the last was 8 years ago), and in that time we have gathered many desk tops and lapstops, flip phones and smart phones, modems, printers, cameras and cables that have passed their time, exceeded their useful lives and warranties. They have brought us together.

Nor are we really the first to hold such a ceremony, inspired by this memorial in Japan for beloved Aibo Robot Pups and other AI pets that have gone to digital doggie heaven ... perhaps to be refurbished and reborn in generations of AI-bowsers to come ...

Our short ceremony will commence right after our usual Heart Sutra, and will include the following dedication and recitation (thank you to Sekishi, our Treeleaf Techno-Ino, for helping me adjust the words of the ancient Shari Raimon chant):

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Today we gather to mark and commemorate the service and impermanence of the tools of hardware and software which are bridges linking our Sangha and lives, the strands of Indra’s Net and the World Wide Web, 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G and more, AI and Ohm, Bodhisattvas of boundless bandwidth, all passing from this sphere of existence as the world of technology constantly changes. They are extensions of the hands, eyes, and minds of sentient beings, and we are grateful for their service.

Dear Machines and Programs …

From the beginning, there is neither birth nor death … nor invention, programming, running or deletion. Yet all is booted up and shut down,
and all composite things are impermanent, all files emptied, all data someday erased.
Because of our particular karmic accumulation, like bytes and bits in an ongoing memory, we were able to encounter and employ you for the good of sentient beings, teaching Dharma and nurturing Sangha.
Now, let us close your covers and send you for recycling, that nothing may be wasted and all shall be reborn. (JUNDO OFFERS INCENSE, THEN CEREMONIOUSLY CLOSES COVERS ON COMPUTERS WHILE THE FOREGOING IS BEING READ)


Let us recite this Denki Shari Raimon: “Homage to the Buddha’s Electronic Relics . . . ” (chant 1x)

Buddha’s electronic relics are digital body and mind.
Body-mind are the Dharma bytes of original nature,
Are the stupa and data store of the dharma realm.
We reverently bow.
Buddha boots on screens for our sake.
Buddha downloads us and we upload Buddha.
Owing to Buddha, we are maintainers of this source repository.
I run the enlightenment patch, and with Buddha’s code
All creations are benefited, and run the enlightened process
Practice the Bodhisattva’s program, the great wisdom of
data equality. Now I respectfully bow.

(THEN INO RETURNS TO OUR NORMAL DEDICATION with these ADDED WORDS ...

Buddha Nature pervades the whole universe, Reality, existing right here now:
In reciting THE HEART OF THE PERFECTION OF GREAT WISDOM SUTRA and HOMAGE TO THE BUDDHA'S ELECTRONlC RELICS, we dedicate our sincere efforts to:

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Please join us, bringing your old devices, hardware and software, plug-ins, keyboards and motherboards to be thanked for their aid, not tossed away lightly. Light incense, offer them a bow with gratitude in heart, and chant with us.

Gassho, J

STLAH

[Junkyo]

I think I can actually make it live this week! There is a school in-service day Friday, so I do not have to clean the school Friday evening!

See you at Zazenkai!

Gassho,

Junkyo
SAT

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[Doshin]

Dowhin
St

[Ishin]

I have finally got a reason to use the "ipod" emoji.
I expect to be there.

Gassho
Ishin
Sat/lah

[Onka]

Can we have a ritual beheading of laptops too. After all it's their fault I don't know how to use them lol.
I should be there 2 way if plans work out.
Gassho
Anna
stlah

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[Jundo]

Can we have a ritual beheading of laptops too. After all it's their fault I don't know how to use them lol.
I should be there 2 way if plans work out.
Gassho
Anna
stlah

Sent from my Lenovo TB-8304F1 using Tapatalk

No, non-violence even toward such objects.. They tried to teach you, but your fingers did not learn.

Gassho, J

STLah

[Tairin]

This is timely as I just recently had to upgrade my mobile. I now have 4 older ones that I was preparing to send off to be recycled. This will be a lovely send off.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Shonin Risa Bear]

Undertaking to be present two way, with a very sick or perhaps dead MacBook in its "body bag." _()_

gassho
doyu sat/lah today

[Kyonin]

Hi guys,

I'll be there with my instruments ready

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

Do Buddhas dream with electric bells?

[Ishin]

Hi guys,

I'll be there with my instruments ready

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

Do Buddhas dream with electric bells?

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[Sekishi]

I have finally got a reason to use the "ipod" emoji.

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat

[Naiko]

I look forward this this! I will sit with you all tomorrow morning.
Gassho,
Krista
st/lah

[Jakuden]

I will sit with you all one-way tonight and send off the electronics with well-wishes. My ex-laptop was actually kept by the shop to be refurbished and presumably re-sold, and although I was a bit annoyed with that at the time, when I think about it this way, I can be glad it is still being useful to somebody! [emoji120]

Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH


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[Sekishi]

Hi all,

Here is the Zoom two-way link for the Zazenkai: https://zoom.us/j/4834831244

- 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).

- You can switch between the "speaker view" (the default view) and "gallery view" (a grid / Hollywood Squares / Brady Bunch style view):
-- 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"

- 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"

- 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