July 30th, 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 JUSTIN.TV:
http://www.justin.tv/treeleafzen

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

[Nindo]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Planning to be online - Friday after work - what could be a better time to sit?? :wink:

Hey guys, didn't have time to figure out the chat, but great to know that you were there!!

[Dosho]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thanks to Jundo...and to all those who sat, are sitting, or will sit...all as one.

Deep bows to you and your practice.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Kyonin]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thank you Jundo-San and all who sat and will sit with us. :mrgreen:

[Hoyu]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thank you Jundo Sensei, Mr. T, and all fellow sitters! Though I didn't understand everything, I did hear many of my favorite Tea words in your talk Jundo

Gassho,
John

[Jundo]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thank you Jundo Sensei, Mr. T, and all fellow sitters! Though I didn't understand everything, I did hear many of my favorite Tea words in your talk Jundo

Gassho,
John

Hi John,

You may hear me give a little talk to our sitters here "in the flesh" in Tsukuba, often in Japanese if they are Japanese folks. But the content is usually about the same as the "Sit-a-Long" talk that week, so no need to try to listen to it (in fact, I try to talk softly). Just sit.

Gassho, J

[Nenka]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

I fell out of weekend practice for a while there, but it's nice to be back.

Gassho

Jennifer

[Hoyu]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thank you Jundo Sensei, Mr. T, and all fellow sitters! Though I didn't understand everything, I did hear many of my favorite Tea words in your talk Jundo

Gassho,
John

Hi John,

You may hear me give a little talk to our sitters here "in the flesh" in Tsukuba, often in Japanese if they are Japanese folks. But the content is usually about the same as the "Sit-a-Long" talk that week, so no need to try to listen to it (in fact, I try to talk softly). Just sit.

Gassho, J

Hai! _/_

[Heisoku]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thanks Jundo and to all sitting.

Gassho.

[Onshin]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

A very nice Sunday morning zazenkai. I do prefer this Justin tv. Thanks to Jundo and all who sat.

[Shujin]

Re: July 30th, 2011 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Happy to sit with y'all.

gassho,
Shujin