October 20th, 2012 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Thank you all for sitting. It is good to be together!

Deep bows,
Yugen

[Gi Shu-George]

Thank you Jundo. Thank you all
Gassho. Gishu George.

[pinoybuddhist]

Rafael

[Dosho]

Thank you Jundo.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Yutai]

Thank you,
Lindsay

Due to a technical hickup during Forum Maintenance, most of the greeting posts in this thread from people who sat the Zazenkai were deleted. All is impermanent.

Gassho, J

Ahhh technology, what a great teacher ... thank you.

Gassho
Michael

[Shugen]

Thank you for the sit.

Gassho

[Jundo]

Due to a technical hickup during Forum Maintenance, most of the greeting posts in this thread from people who sat the Zazenkai were deleted. All is impermanent.

Gassho, J

[Kaishin]

Thank you for the zazenkai, and good luck on your talk next month, Jundo!
Gassho, Kaishin / Matt

[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 and any time thereafter ...

LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at GOOGLE+ IS HERE:
CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN

FOR THOSE NOT ALREADY MEMBERS OF THE CIRCLE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO SIT LIVE WITH A CAMERA, INSTRUCTIONS ARE POSTED AT THIS LINK. WE ARE NOW LIMITED TO 10 INDIVIDUALS WITH CAMERAS, BUT ANY NUMBER CAN WATCH LIVE 'ONE WAY' AND SIT-A-LONG VIA THE ABOVE SCREEN. IF JOINING WITH CAMERA, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR MICROPHONE IS MUTED:

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 about 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 Chants we will recite at the following link (PDF):

Chant Book (PDF)

or

Chant Book (SHORT VERSION HTML)

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