September 11th-12th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - 消災妙吉祥陀羅尼

[Jundo]

Today's Talk will be on the Marvelously Beneficial Disaster Preventing Dharani (Shōsai Myōkichijō darani) common in Soto Zen, and why we generally DO NOT recite it in our Sangha.

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/5nll8r5KY5A

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

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) ...

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

[jonathon]

See you all tomorrow.

Gassho, Jonathon

SATLah

[Eva]

I will sit with all of you on Sunday ,
since working on Friday and Saturday .

Gassho,
eva
sattoday and LAH

[Seishin]

Will sit On Demand as usual

sat/lah

[Bion]

See you all in a few hours! [emoji3526] Can not wait!

[emoji1374] SatToday lah

[Juki]

I have to teach Yoga at 530 tomorrow morning, so I will sit this tomorrow after Yoga.

Gassho,
Juki

sat today and lah

[Geika]

I will be joining you all at a later time

Gassho
Sat today, lah

[Jundo]

I would like to dedicate our sitting today to our Sangha friends and others in Oregon and California who have had to flee their homes in the face of great fires, as well as all sentient beings everywhere who face natural disasters of all kinds around the world today.

We dedicate our hopes and aspirations:
To all victims of war and terrorism
To the injured and to all families touched by these tragedies

I will also discuss a tradition called the Marvelously Beneficial Disaster Preventing Dharani (Shōsai Myōkichijō darani 消災妙吉祥陀羅尼 or Shōsai shu 消災呪) and why we generally DO NOT chant the same in our Sangha even in the face of disaster and calamities.

[Chinese]
No mo san man da moto nan oha ra chi koto sha sono nan ◎ to ji to en gya gya gya ki gya ki un nun shifu ra shifu ra hara shifu ra hara shifu ra chishu sa chishu sa chishu ● ri chishu ri sowa ja sowa ja ● sen chi gya shiri ei so mo ko.

It is a traditional chant of the Soto Zen temples in Japan and many around the world.

https://youtu.be/H6GLNpBaKFM

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

[Jakuden]

I will be there with the bells [emoji846]

Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/ LAH


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[Sekishi]

See y'all soon!

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat

[Seikan]

See you all soon!

Gassho,
Rob

-stlah-


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[Bion]

See y'all soon!

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat

In no time. [emoji1] I’m a bit worried cause last evening I was sitting zazen in the Free Sitting Room and when I was done Zoom had closed already due to some error. I hope it doesn’t happen during zazenkai!

[emoji1374] SatToday lah

[Ryokudo]

Hi y'all.

I will sit the zazenkai later on the Saturday. But of course in effect I'm with you across space and time.

Gassho

Neilio

SAT/LAH

[Shonin Risa Bear]

Must sit this via the video. Thank you to everyone here!

gassho
shonin sat today and lah

[Shokai]

Sorry but, Had to leave early. Thank you all who sat and will sit. And, thank you Jundo for your teaching. It recalls a story of a temple in India. One day someone started to build a Bar right across the road from the temple. The people of the temple were incensed. How dare he open a bar in front of a temple. So they prayed that the bar would not open and wouldn't you know, just the night before the opening there was a great storm. Lightening struck the bar and it burnt to the ground. The Bar owner got himself a lawyer and sued the temple. When the case came to court, he explained that the people of the temple had prayed against the opening of his bar and in resulted in the destruction of his building. The temple people of course agreed that they had prayed but denied that there was any connection. The Judge threw the case out on the grounds of it's strangeness. The bar owner was claiming the power of prayer whereas the people of faith denied prayer worked.

gassho, Shokai
stlah