February 4th-5th, 2022 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour Treeleaf ZAZENKAI

[Huichan]

Apologies, have had to leave the zazenkai early. Will catch the 2nd half when I have time.

Gassho
Ross
ST

[Hokin]

This was lovely...but had to leave half way to the (endless)end...
Had to go and help my wife with our little rascal-kids..hehehe.
Sorry because it is always beautiful for me to share the practice with you!
Maybe when the kids will be a little more older I will be able to sit monthly zazenkais without interruption...
Anyways...I'll catch up with you again later or tomorrow on demand!

Gassho.
Hokin.
SAT&LAH

[Jakuden]

Thank you dear Sangha! Have a wonderful weekend.
[emoji120]

Gassho,
Jakuden
SatToday


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[Onkai]

Thank you, everyone. Happy Lunar New Year and have a great weekend!

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Nengyoku]

It is always wonderful to come together and sit.
Thank you to everyone who was here tonight, or who will be here in the future.

Gassho,
Nengyoku
Sat

[Mrcpt11]

Thank you Sangha, it was great to see everyone for the first time!

Gassho,
William
Sattoday

[Nengyoku]

Thank you Sangha, it was great to see everyone for the first time!

Gassho,
William
Sattoday

Big props to William here for doing all four hours live on his first Zazenkai!
Time is meaningless and yada-yada, but wow man! :P


As an aside, I wanted to thank Hokin for always doing floor prostrations. I love doing them, but I definitely feel out of place when I'm the only one, so thank you for always leading the charge.
Pretty sure everyone did floor prostrations this week though, and I felt a little bad for William because he was just following our lead

What a blast everyone. Thanks again.

Gassho,
Nengyoku
Sat

[Koushi]

I wanted to thank Hokin for always doing floor prostrations. I love doing them, but I definitely feel out of place when I'm the only one, so thank you for always leading the charge.

One of the things I have always loved about Treeleaf is that during any zazenkai you get to see a myriad of ways of form and practice: Some have to lay down, some sit in chairs or on benches. Some can do deep bows and prostrations and some give the best gassho they can. We do what we can, and it's wonderful to see such inclusivity.

Thank you for your practice and prostrations—and thank you everyone for coming together once again.

It was lovely, as always

Gassho,
Koushi
STLaH

[Jundo]

Really, what did they do with "water" ???

https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk

And in other oldie, kinda more or less goldie ...

https://youtu.be/cDPnsTRAvIM

...

And, of course, the song which American composer Percy Montross apparently stole from an ancient Chinese dance, why is no mention of that fact made in the Wikipedia listing????

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_Darling,_Clementine

https://youtu.be/dC9_rrpX00c

Gassho, J

STLah

[Anchi]

What a beautiful and lovely Zazenkai!

Wonderful and inspiring.... Great talk.

Thank you Jundo and everyone ... Lovely way to end the week.

Have a wonderful weekend.


Deep bows

[Bion]

Really, what did they do with "water" ???

https://youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk

And in other oldie, kinda more or less goldie ...

https://youtu.be/cDPnsTRAvIM

...

And, of course, the song which American composer Percy Montross apparently stole from an ancient Chinese dance, why is no mention of that fact made in the Wikipedia listing????

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_Darling,_Clementine

https://youtu.be/dC9_rrpX00c

Gassho, J

STLah

Oh, you did not give me a chance to post them and I looked them up and everything! I just needed sleep first [emoji1787] [emoji23]

[emoji1374] Sat Today

[Tairin]

Thank you everyone. I sat with you this morning.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Shade]

Wonderful to sit with all of you. Jundo's point about dealing with discomfort during Zazen was especially fitting since I found this particular sitting to be difficult. Either way, we made it!

Gassho,

Chukyo

ST

[Bokugan]

Nice to sit another wonderful Zazenkai with you all yesterday!

I normally cannot make the monthly zazenkais in person, but the snow and ice forced my workplace to stay closed all day (grownup snow day!!! [emoji1])

Happy to hear the Zendo has a new computer much needed upgrade.


Gassho,

Bokugan
SatToday LaH

[Kotei]

The new cam seems to handle the low-light corners a lot better.
Thank you everyone!

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.