June 27th-28th, 2014 Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Dosho]

Thanks to everybody, especially Jundo and Kyonin. Wonderful to sit with all of you.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Hotetsu]

Hi all. Couldn't get my camera to work, then my computer crashed, then it came back up without a mic. Isn't technology grand LOL . It was wonderful to sit with you all. Sorry about the psychedelic eye of Sauron. I made that a long time ago when I still was making electronic music as an avatar. Marriage and children put an end to that right fast . Gassho, Scott (eye of non-Sauron)

[Byokan]

... From the land of Pittsburgh, where the Shadows lie...

[Hotetsu]

ROFL! . I can just picture in my head Big Ben huddled over his last Super Bowl ring, muttering, "My precious..."

[Kyonin]

Hey guys,

Sorry for the noisy chanting today. I had no idea this would happen, but a local Catholic temple held a procession right outside my house. They were transporting some saint to another temple. So there were hundreds of people, fire crackers, bells and praying along our Heart Sutra.

Thank you all for your patience.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Jundo]

Hey guys,

Sorry for the noisy chanting today. I had no idea this would happen, but a local Catholic temple held a procession right outside my house. They were transporting some saint to another temple. So there were hundreds of people, fire crackers, bells and praying along our Heart Sutra.

Thank you all for your patience.

Gassho,

Kyonin

Oh, THAT IS WONDERFUL! Our Ceremony merged Harmoniously with theirs, and all the Saints Danced!!

I must confess that I thought (really) I was hearing gunshots during our Dedication for World Peace!!

Gassho, J

[Mp]

Oh, THAT IS WONDERFUL! Our Ceremony merged Harmoniously with theirs, and all the Saints Danced!!

I must confess that I thought (really) I was hearing gunshots during our Dedication for World Peace!!

Gassho, J

LOL ... I was wondering the same thing too ... nice to hear it is a celebration! =)

Gassho
Shingen

[Kyonin]

Hi Jundo,

Yes! The saints merged and rang the bells

Thankfully they were not gun shots. Only super noisy firecrackers. The area where I live is not violent at all. But we do get our share of Catholic events so very often.

This is pretty close to what you heard today:

http://youtu.be/FFBI4mUQ9bs?t=2m30s

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Dosho]

Kyonin,

I just thought your microphone was turned up really high so that keystrokes sounded like explosions! As if I were a tiny insignificant creature among the endless universe, which I am anyway!

It was perfectly imperfect!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Jundo]

Oh my, when you said "Transporting the Saint", I thought you meant perhaps a painting! Not the actual Saint in a Glass Casket!

However, do you know that such exists in corners of Buddhism as well? I think it shows some common inner way various people need to relate to these things East or West Anyone interested in the topic can just Google "Buddhist Mummies".

Gassho, J

[Taikyo]

Thank you to all who sit Gassho
Taikyo

[Myosha]

Great dance. Good news.

Master Yunmen faux mummy.http://cantonbuddhism.weebly.com/upl...4_orig.jpg?205

Thanks to all.


Gassho,
Myosha

[Kyonin]

Hi Jundo!

Oh that was not a corpse! It was a very realistic statue of a corpse. Sometimes it's a virgin, others an object. Some of them are cycling around temples all year long.

And it gets noisy as you can see.

I have seen some film clips about the same kind of festivities all around the world. We humans have the need to relate to the sacred. It's in our DNA!

Gassho,

Kyonin

Oh my, when you said "Transporting the Saint", I thought you meant perhaps a painting! Not the actual Saint in a Glass Casket!

However, do you know that such exists in corners of Buddhism as well? I think it shows some common inner way various people need to relate to these things East or West Anyone interested in the topic can just Google "Buddhist Mummies".

Gassho, J

[Kyonin]

Kyonin,

I just thought your microphone was turned up really high so that keystrokes sounded like explosions!

Hi Dosho!

Well they were explosions. And got louder during the night. The good thing is there will be a small food festival in a couple hours, when sun rises. Lots of great fried and greasy stuff to eat!

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Meishin]

Hello all,

Thank you.

Gassho,
John