Jamuary 10th-11th, 2013 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Jundo]

PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEW MICROPHONE WHICH (MAYBE) WILL IMPROVE SOUND QUALITY!

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 7pm, Los Angeles 4pm (Friday night), London midnight and Paris 1am (early Saturday morning)

... and to be visible at the following link during those times and sit-a-long-able any time thereafter ...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcXqoede_0I

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) 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

[Juki]

I will be there live.

Gassho,
William

[Mp]

I too will be there live. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[Guest]

I should now be able to start attending these live. I should be able to be there.

Gassho
Bobby

[Dosho]

I'll be here.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Kyonin]

Hope I can make it tonight.

I'll be working with some other fellows to get toys and blankets to a children's hospital tomorrow morning

If I you don't see me, I'll sit this zazenkai on Sunday at dawn.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Daijo]

Hoping I can make it.

Chuck

[Daitetsu]

Hi there,

If I'm not too tired, I hope I'll be there live. (Just had a short "power nap" to make chances higher.)
Otherwise I will sit with the recording on the next day.

Gassho,

Timo

[Juki]

Hi there,

If I'm not too tired, I hope I'll be there live. (Just had a short "power nap" to make chances higher.)
Otherwise I will sit with the recording on the next day.

Gassho,

Timo

Timo, you go "above and beyond" sitting these live. I can't imagine staying up that late.

deep bows,
william

[Sekishi]

Will have to sit this one recorded tomorrow. Thank you all for your practice. Deep bows.
-Eric

[Nengyo]

With a little luck, I will be there live tonight. If no luck, I will join up televised shorty after the start.

[Koshin]

Trying to make it Live, if work allows. If not, a couple of hours non-late

Gassho

[jslinjr]

I have company tonight so I will be sitting later tonight with the recording.

Completely grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this.

Gassho,
Jeff

[Yugen]

I'm in, and will serve as Doan this evening.

Deep bows
Yugen

[Dosho]

Google decided tonight was a good time to verify my password, which I recently changed and then forgot. Waiting on password recovery.

Gassho,
Dosho

EDIT: Got it!