March 9th, 2013 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! (Come Dance the 'HEARTlem SHAKE'!)

[Nengyo]

I missed the dance

[Myoku]

Thank you everyone,
Gassho
Myoku

[Kyonin]

Thank you for this wonderful zazenkai.

I love Hatsune Miku!!

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Jundo]

There are many many different versions of her Heart Sutra ... this one with English subtitles ...

also ... thrash metal ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwh7VM3w1xc

... and R&B (I think these are human voices mixed in) ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38sy1DN88Ks

[Jundo]

And here is the Hatsune Miku Heart Sutra we danced second ... perhaps not your image of the "Heart Sutra" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGOSfAK9SSM

More on Hatsune Miku ...

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is the first Japanese Vocaloid2 in the Vocaloid2 Character Vocal Series, the third Japanese Vocaloid created by Crypton Future Media, and is the seventh Vocaloid to have appeared overall; released on August 31, 2007. She is considered as the most popular and well known Vocaloid and the first to become a pop idol. The data for the voice was created by sampling the voice of Saki Fujita (藤田 咲, Fujita Saki), a Japanese voice actress.

Crypton had the idea to release Miku as "an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost."[3][4] When KEI illustrated Miku, he was asked to draw Miku as an android and a color scheme to go off of (based on YAMAHA synthesizer's signature blue-green color). Crypton also provided KEI her detailed concepts, however, Crypton says it was not easy to explain what a "Vocaloid" was like to him, and KEI says he could not create an image of a "singing computer" at first, as he did not even know what a "synthesizer" was. It took him more than a month. [5] The digital design on Miku's skirt and boots are based off synthesizer program colours and the bars represent the actual bars within the program, following Crypton's idea. Part of her design seems to be based on Yamaha's keyboard model DX-100 [6].

http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Hatsune_Miku

Does Hatsune Miku have Buddha Nature?


Gassho, J

[Jundo]

Thank you to all the dance partners today! Myozan, love the cricket gear!

Here is the "Zen Monks Ballet" I mentioned, the monks of Sojiji during their Morning Chanting ... Check out from the 7:15 to 12:00 mark. What they are doing is a ritual reading of a very large Sutra, by flipping through the pages. The idea behind it is very much like the Tibetan Prayer Wheel, where every turn of the Sutra in the wheel gathers merit ...

Gassho, J

[RichardH]

Thank you,...and thank you for the dance.

I need to duck out and get some sleep early tonight. (not because of the dance! )


Gassho, Daizan

[Koshin]

That was fun Have a great weekend, will "join" zazenkai tomorrow

Gassho

[Matt]

Going to join right now...gassho, Matt

[Dosho]

Unfortunately, I will not able to participate due to family concerns.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Koshin]

Will be there, not the whole Zazenkai tough, just one hour :P

Gassho


PS: Practicing my dance already

Update: Unfortunately, I have a client meeting this afternoon, so I will try my best to make it ... might be later, or have to sit with recording.

I be there dancing live.

Gassho
Shingen

[RichardH]

I'll be here.


Gassho
Daizan


....still got some moves methinx.

[Myozan Kodo]

Hi,
Wish I could be there live. Can't wait to sit (and dance!) the recorded version.
Gassho
Myozan

[Kyonin]

Con los Buddhistas!

This is a can't miss! Of course I'll be there live

Gassho,

Kyonin