January 14th-15th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Just Before Jukai ...

[Jundo]

Dear All,

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

10am Japan Saturday morning, NY 8pm, LA 5pm Friday night, London 1am and Paris 2am Saturday morning, or any time thereafter here:

However, "one way" live sitters are encouraged to come into the Zoom sitting, and just leave the camera and microphone turned off: Join live (with or without a camera & microphone) on Zoom at: TREELEAF Now OR at DIRECT ZOOM LINK, password (if needed): dogen

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
01:30 - 01:45(?) Informal Tea Time (All Welcome)

ATTENTION: Everyone, when rising for Kinhin or Ceremonies after Zazen, get up slowly, don't rush, hold something stable, you won't be "late," so TAKE YOUR TIME! Make sure you are careful getting up!

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

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

I also recommend a little Talk on why small rituals and procedures are so cherished in the Zendo:

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Small Things in the Zendo
https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/show...s-in-the-Zendo

[Tai Shi]

Can I be there Jundo? I would like to be able to repay with silence because I am just doing a straight and I can now sit for up to 40 minutes and I have nothing to prove to… I don’t want to lose your trust. I’ll be there.
Gassho
sat/ lah
Tai Shi


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[Jundo]

Can I be there Jundo? I would like to be able to repay with silence because I am just doing a straight and I can now sit for up to 40 minutes and I have nothing to prove to… I don’t want to lose your trust. I’ll be there.
Gassho
sat/ lah
Tai Shi

You are more than welcome if you feel able.

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

[Bion]

Lovely and as always, a joy to be together! [emoji1374]

Sat Today

[Sekishi]

Zoom and Youtube are ready to help us sit together.

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat #lah

[Tai Shi]

I am so happy to relearn the true meaning of love in our precepts which are always the precepts of the Buddhist world, sometimes the same, sometimes faintly different.
Gassho
sat/ lah


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[Tai Shi]

Sometimes I am not loving and I can always make amends and start over with the Buddhist Precepts.
Gassho
sat/ lah


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[Ippo]

See you all tonight

Gasso,

Ippo

SatLah

[Tai Shi]

January 14th-15th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Just Before Jukai ...

Congratulations [emoji322] Sekishi. I’ll be at Jukai in room two with my good clothes on. I won’t make tonight because of arthritis.
Gassho
deep bows
sat/ lah


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[Hokin]

Thank you all for the practice and thank you Jundo for your always very inspirig words!
There is one quote from the chapter Shoaku Makusa in the Shobogenzo that stuck very deep into my heart since the first time I read it, and says (roughly, for I don't remind the exact wording, also depends on which translation, but the sense is...): "If the teaching doesn't begin with 'Abstain from doing harm" (Shoaku Makusa) it is not the teaching of the Buddhas'".

Simply beautiful...and to always keep it in mind, I think.

Gassho.
Hokin.
SAT&LAH.

[Jundo]

By the way, our videos temporarily disappeared it seems ... but they are still available on youtube ...

https: //youtu.be/I6RXz1qHj0A

[just take out the space after the colon : ]

... so hopefully they will be back here shortly ...

Gassho, J

[Bion]

January 14th-15th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - Just Before Jukai ...

Thank you everyone for your presence, efforts and dedication, and it was as usual a pleasure spending the Friday night with you.
Jundo, I always end up inspired and motivated after zazenkai, in spite of the sleepiness and late hour, so thank you for your teaching. I cherish it
@Sekishi , you are a treasure.

[emoji1374] Sat Today

[Bokugan]

Wonderful Zazenkai [emoji120]

Thank you Sekishi, and deep appreciation for the talk, Jundo.

Thank you everyone for your practice --- it inspires my own in so many ways.

Gassho,

Ryan
SatToday LaH

[Sekishi]

By the way, our videos temporarily disappeared it seems ... but they are still available on youtube ...

https: //youtu.be/I6RXz1qHj0A

[just take out the space after the colon : ]

... so hopefully they will be back here shortly ...

I do not understand why this is. I can embed the videos on other site (even copying the exact embed tag from our forum) and everything works fine. Its late, so I'll look at this more in the morning.

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat #lah

[Sekishi]

I do not understand why this is. I can embed the videos on other site (even copying the exact embed tag from our forum) and everything works fine. Its late, so I'll look at this more in the morning.

After testing in a few different browsers, it may be a youtube problem. It seems to only be videos that were livestreamed (videos simply uploaded directly still work fine). And videos still work fine in some browsers.

For example, livestreamed videos work for me in:

- Chromium / Linux
- Chrome / Linux
- Edge / Windows 10
- Firefox (91 LTS) / Linux

Videos do NOT work for me in:

- Chrome / Windows 10
- Firebox / Windows 10
- Firefox (96) / Linux
- Mobile Safari / iOS

My best guess right now is that Youtube is having some sort of codec hiccup. Fingers crossed that things will magically fix themselves when some code monkey at Youtube realizes there is a problem.

Gassho,
Sekishi