April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

Hello All,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE from 9am Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 8pm, Los Angeles 5pm (Friday night), London 1am and Paris 2am (early Saturday morning))

... and to be visible at the following link during those times ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at USTREAM:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sit-a-long-with-jundo

But FEAR NOT if not possible for you to join 'live' in your location at those times, as the entire sitting is recorded in 'REAL TIME' and available for full participation 'on demand' at any time after that, no different from the 'live' sitting :

'REAL TIME' recorded 'ANY TIME' version link is here:



OUR 90 MINUTE SITTING SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:

00:00 – 00:15 CEREMONY (HEART SUTRA in English ONLY) and Dedication
00:15 – 00:45 ZAZEN
00:45 – 00:55 KINHIN
00:55 – 01:25 ZAZEN
01:25 – 01:30 FOUR VOWS, & VERSE OF ATONEMENT

As you can see, our Zazenkai consists of chanting the 'Heart Sutra' in English (the words are at the link below), some full floor prostrations in sets of three (please follow along with me ... or a simple Gassho can be substituted if you wish), followed by our Dedication, Zazen twice for 30 minutes each, with 10 minutes of Kinhin in between, and we end the sitting with 'The Verse of Atonement' and 'The Four Vows'.

Please download and print out the words of the Chants we will recite at the following link:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2231

So, please join us as soon as you can, and we will keep a Zafu open for you.

Remember, when we drop all thought of 'here' 'there' 'now' 'then' ... we are sitting all together!


Gassho, Jundo

[Seishin the Elder]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

At the Abbey for Holy Week leading up to Easter, so I will probably get this in sometime Saturday.

BTW Jundo, have you received the emails I sent on the gmail account???

Gassho,

Seishin Kyrill

[Dosho]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thanks for the sit folks...no matter when, how or where...all are one.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Myoku]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thanks so much to our "Japanese sitters",
thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting Jundo and
all of us, I feel very grateful,
_()_
Peter

[Heisoku]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thank you Jundo and all sitters.

[Onshin]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thank to all who sat, it was good to the Zendo filling up with people again

Gassho

Onshin

[Seishin the Elder]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Sat Zanzenkai this morning.

In the community room across from my cell at the Abbey two doves are kept. As I began sitting they began cooing, once about every two seconds. As I continued to sit I could not recall when they stopped.

Gassho,

Seishin Kyrill

[Shugen]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

If life and my sons cooperate, I will be sitting this evening from 9pm EST to 10:30 EST if anyone would care to join in all or part. (I put the time on the scheduler)

Ron

[Nenka]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Hey, nice to see some of the sitters have come back!

A good sit . . . I really needed a li'l verse of atonement this week.

Gassho,

Jen

[Nindo]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thanks for the sit

[Hoyu]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

It was a nice snowy :shock: Minnesota morning sit! Thank you Jundo Sensei.
Weclome to Treeleaf Mr. Koyama. And welcome back Gina and Amin! Thanks to Amin for keeping tempo with the mokugyo.
High fives to all fellow sitters past, present, and future!

Gassho,
John

[Saijun]

Re: April 16th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Hello friends,

Thank you for the sit.

Metta,

Saijun