September 18th-19th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Embodiment

[Tosei]

Thank you to all.

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Sattoday

[Seikan]

Thank you Jundo, Kyonin, and all! Our weekly Zazenkai continue to be an important cornerstone of support, especially during this intensive practice period.



Gassho,
Rob

-stlah-

[Jundo]

Here is the "mystery Soto monk" showing the ritual of taking off and hanging robes to attend to the toilet in a Soto monastery ... and it does not even contain the bowing and chanting portions and other rituals of entering the toilet and hand washing after, only the clothes removal.

From about 9:00 he shows it all together at full speed, but it still takes some time ... best not to be in a rush!

https://youtu.be/gqAatc6bSc0

Hallway floor washing in a Soto monastery ...



The "toework" ballet of the Morning Ceremony (Choka) at a large Soto monastery (this is bringing out the books for the "tendoku" ritual reading of the 600-fascicle Large Prajña Paramita Sutra (Dai Hannya Kyo), which involves shouting the title and volume number of the sutra, then quickly flipping through the sutra book itself. The purpose is a bit esoteric, much like the belief that simply praising the name of a Sutra equals the merit of reading the whole Sutra, much like those Tibetan prayer wheels where every turn of the wheel = a reading of the sutra inside).

https://youtu.be/De15EaR_irk

Gassho, J

STLah

[Inshin]

Here is the "mystery Soto monk" showing the ritual of taking off and hanging robes to attend to the toilet in a Soto monastery ... and it does not even contain the bowing and chanting portions and other rituals of entering the toilet and hand washing after, only the clothes removal.

From about 9:00 he shows it all together at full speed, but it still takes some time ... best not to be in a rush!

https://youtu.be/gqAatc6bSc0

Hallway floor washing in a Soto monastery ...



The "toework" ballet of the Morning Ceremony (Choka) at a large Soto monastery (this is bringing out the books for the "tendoku" ritual reading of the 600-fascicle Large Prajña Paramita Sutra (Dai Hannya Kyo), which involves shouting the title and volume number of the sutra, then quickly flipping through the sutra book itself. The purpose is a bit esoteric, much like the belief that simply praising the name of a Sutra equals the merit of reading the whole Sutra, much like those Tibetan prayer wheels where every turn of the wheel = a reading of the sutra inside).

https://youtu.be/De15EaR_irk

Gassho, J

STLah

Thank you for sharing more info on this. I can't recite Heart Sutra yet so I've been listening to the second video before sitting zazen. Fascinating! Now I know à little more of what's going on there
Gassho
Sat

[Bokugan]

Thank you Jundo, Kyonin and all.

Jundo, your talk really spoke to me and some things I have been thinking through. Thank you (...and I didn't feel it was too long at all!)

Gassho,

Ryan
Sat Today

[Tairin]

Thank you everyone. I sat with you this morning. Wonderful talk Jundo. That was a classic.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[gaurdianaq]

Just finished sitting along, and even managed to forget that it wasn't "live" for most of it so I'm going to count that as progress.

[Bion]

Just finished sitting along, and even managed to forget that it wasn't "live" for most of it so I'm going to count that as progress.

That is awesome!!! [emoji1] You were totally present while we were sitting it anyway. I could “see” you in one of the many invisible zoom squares [emoji6]

[emoji1374] SatToday lah

[Seikai]

Wonderful talk Jundo. Sat with you today on youtube.



Sat Today

[Juki]

Thank you everyone.

Gassho,
Juki

sat today and lah

[Shonin Risa Bear]

_()_

gassho
shonin, who sat today and lah

[Seishin]

Thank you everyone

sat

[Eva]

Just finished sitting along, and even managed to forget that it wasn't "live" for most of it so I'm going to count that as progress.

I'm always forgetting it and waving and saying goodbyes . I prefer it this way .
Sat with all of you this morning .

Gassho,
eva
sattoday and LAH

[Kiri]

Thank you everyone! It's nice to be able to sit with you again!
Gassho, Nikolas
Sat/LaH

[Matt]

Sitting this one now. Gassho, Matt