July 7th, 2012- OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI!

[Kyonin]

Thank you, Jundo. Beautiful teaching today.

Hope you get back to full health pretty soon.

Thanks all who sat / will sit.

Have a great weekend!

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Koshin]

Thank you and have a great sitting when you watch this one "live" again

Gassho

[Myoku]

I sent out the invite, I'll be sitting along tomorrow morning at 7:15. Not sure how we "sit together" on G+ with the recorded version. But we'll wing it.

Thank you for inviting, Chuck. I can stream the video into the hangout. I would start exactly at the given time (but'll be online a few minutes before), as I have to leave exactly in time due to another appointment I have in the evening.
Gassho
Myoku

[Jundo]

Thank you for inviting, Chuck. I can stream the video into the hangout. I would start exactly at the given time (but'll be online a few minutes before), as I have to leave exactly in time due to another appointment I have in the evening.
Gassho
Myoku

Hi Guys,

Can you fellows take a video of your doing and this and send it when it is over, maybe let us post it here. I would like to see how this is organized, and what it means to stream into the hangout.

Lovely!

Gassho, J

[Daijo]

This sounds like it will work great. I hope, lol. See you in a few minutes?

[Myoku]

Yep, just a few minutes, and if everything goes well, we have a video steam of the last hangout and also do a hangout on air, which means we record it as we sitt. Pretty experimental, but we'll see.
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Myoku

[Kyonin]

This is the morning after the 4 hour Zazenkai and I am happy to report the YouTube recording worked like a charm. No cuts, no hiccups. The four hours are there!

Is it me or Hangouts are our new official virtual temple?

[Heisoku]

Thanks Jundo your humour and perserverance is inspirational!
The G+ hangout live resit worked really well...thanks Peter.
I tried a hangout to resit this morning but it timed out sometime before Jundo's teisho so I had a break. It was therefore good to join Myoku's hangout in the recorded sit to complete the zazenkai. Gassho to all.

[Daijo]

Seemed to work pretty well. A few odd moments, but otherwise very well indeed.

[Dosho]

Just got back from being on the road with the family...will sit soon when time allows!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Nengyo]

With a combo of google + and youtube I've made it through the intro and one zazen session. Later tonight I hope to finish up. The google + worked well. I didn't turn on my camera or sound though, because by the time I logged on the little guy was running around screaming about making doo doo.

[Mp]

Thank you Jundo and everyone you sat. I sat with the recording today and it was wonderful.

Hope you are feeling Jundo.

Gassho,
Michael

[adrianbkelly]

Thank you so much to everyone who sat! Have just finished my first 4 hour Zazenkai & it truly does feel like visiting a real Zendo!

Thanks for the wonderful teaching Jundo & hope you're feeling better.

_/\_

Ade

[Myoku]

Can you fellows take a video of your doing and this and send it when it is over, maybe let us post it here. I would like to see how this is organized, and what it means to stream into the hangout.

Here is the very start of our resit; this is a video of my computer screen. You see the hangout on the right and a video player with the zazenkai recording loaded on the left. When we came together I used "screenshare" to send the videoplayer into the g+ hangout (instead of my cam, which meant the others wont see me but the video instead).
I guess its also possible with "youtube" video sharing, but I couldnt get this to work for me actually. But now the short video, mainly starring Chuck ;-)

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[Myoku]

While the first video was my view, below is an example how the hangout looked for the other guys:

Thank you for everyone hanging out and please let share your suggestions for improvement. Maybe we can this make a regular event at about this time ?
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Myoku