August 7th-8th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

Dear All,

Please sit our Treeleaf Zazenkai for 90 minutes with Zazen, Heart Sutra and more:

10am Japan Saturday morning, NY 9pm, LA 6pm Friday night, London 2am and Paris 3am Saturday morning, or any time thereafter here:

https://youtu.be/1yVBlRQCUC4

Join live (with or without a camera & microphone) on Zoom at: TREELEAF Now OR at DIRECT ZOOM LINK, password (if needed): dogen

Gassho, Jundo

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PS - There is no "wrong" or "right" in Zazen ... yet here is a little explanation of the "right" times to Bow (A Koan) ...

Chant Book is here for those who wish to join in: CHANT BOOK LINK

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

[Washin]

Thank you, Jundo. Intention is to be there two ways.

Gassho
Washin
st-lah

[Jiki]

I will participate. Thank you.

Gassho
Jiki
Sat today

[Kyonin]

Me be there

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Washin]

Thank you all for sitting together.
Thank you for the beautiful talk, Jundo.

Gassho
Washin
sattoday

[Onka]

I started falling asleep during the first sitting so decided to sleep rather than fight it. Sunflower Tea House will still be open sometime after today's Zazenkai.
Gassho
Onka
ST

[Jiki]

Wonderful zazenkai! I am so much impressed by the talk. Thank you Jundo and everyone.

Gassho,
Jiki
Sat Today

[Seikan]

Thank you Jundo, Sekishi, and all! I'm ever grateful for this wonderful opportunity to practice together.

Gassho,
Rob

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[Onkai]

Thank you, Jundo, Sekishi, and everyone for a lovely zazenkai & tea time. Have a great weekene!

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Shonin Risa Bear]

So glad to "meet" you, Jiki. _()_

Thank you, Jundo, Sekishi and everyone. _()_

gassho
shonin sat today and lah

[Tairin]

Thank you everyone. I sat with you this morning.

Thank you for this week’s talk Jundo.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Margherita]

Thanks Jundo,
Thanks Sangha.
I just sat, today.

Gassho

[Doshin]

Doshin
St

[Jundo]

Just so everyone knows what I mean by the "Four Jhanas" in early Sutta descriptions of meditation, the following is typical ...

First Jhana: Quite secluded from sense pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states of mind, he enters and dwells in the first jhana, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought with rapture (bliss) and happiness born of seclusion. (M.i,1818; Vbh.245)

Second Jhana: With the subsiding of applied thought and sustained thought he enters and dwells in the second jhana, which has internal confidence and unification of mind, is free of applied thought and sustained thought, and is filled with rapture and happiness born of concentration (M.i,181; Vbh. 245)

Third Jhana: With the fading away of rapture, he dwells in equanimity, mindful and discerning; and he experiences in his own person that happiness of which the noble ones say: 'Happily lives he who is equanimous and mindful' — thus he enters and dwells in the third jhana. (M.i,182; Vbh.245)

Fourth Jhana: With the abandoning of pleasure and pain, and with the previous disappearance of joy and grief, he enters and dwells in the fourth jhana, which has neither-pain-nor-pleasure and has purity of mindfulness due to equanimity. (M.i,182; Vbh.245)

Thus, there is a dropping of applied and sustained thought, then a fading away of rapture, a disentangling from pleasures and pain, ceasing measures of joy and grief, aversions and attractions, replaced by the wholeness of a unified mind and equanimity.

Gassho, J

STLah

PS - I am not a Pali/Sanskrit scholar, but the traditional terms used are "piti," which is often translated with the English word "rapture," and is distinguished from the longer-lasting meditative "joy" or "happiness" (Pali, Sanskrit: sukha) which is a subtler feeling that arises along with pīti. Depending on how it is being used in English, "bliss" can refer either to piti or to sukha.

[Jakuden]

Thank you Jundo, Sekishi and everyone, that was so good I forgot it was a recording.... when Jundo asked if everyone could hear OK, I gave a thumbs up Wonderful, timely talk Jundo Roshi.

Gassho
Jakuden
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