February 20th-21st Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

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  • Kyonin
    Treeleaf Priest / Engineer
    • Oct 2010
    • 6749

    February 20th-21st Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

    Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast LIVE from 9am Japan time Saturday morning (New York 7pm, Los Angeles 4pm (Friday night), London midnight and Paris 1am (early Saturday mornin, Mexico City 6pm (Friday night)

    ... 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




    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,

    Kyonin
    Last edited by Kyonin; 02-20-2015, 11:39 PM.
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍
  • Joyo

    #2
    Thank you Kyonin. My family has all been sick this week, so if I don't have the time to join live, I will sit during the week.

    Gassho,
    Joyo
    sat today

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    • RichardH
      Member
      • Nov 2011
      • 2800

      #3
      Will be here/there.

      Gassho
      Daizan

      sat-fellsoundasleepcrawledbackintobed-today

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      • Mp

        #4
        Thank you Kyonin, I will be there live. =)

        Gassho
        Shingen

        SatToday

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        • Sekishi
          Treeleaf Priest
          • Apr 2013
          • 5675

          #5
          I'll be there live if our internet access is up for it (service has been iffy with the bad weather).

          Gassho,
          Sekishi
          #sattoday


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          ^^^^^ Cat walked across my keyboard before I typed my response, thought I would share his "art" with you.
          Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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          • Dosho
            Member
            • Jun 2008
            • 5784

            #6
            I should be here.

            Gassho,
            Dosho

            Sat today

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            • Shugen
              Member
              • Nov 2007
              • 4535

              #7
              Hello,

              I also have more snow and ice coming my way this evening. Shingen is on standby just in case.

              Gassho,

              Shugen


              Shugen
              Meido Shugen
              明道 修眼

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              • Dave d
                Member
                • Jan 2015
                • 42

                #8
                I'll do my best to be there/here.

                gassho

                Dave
                sat today

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                • Mp

                  #9
                  Originally posted by rculver
                  Hello,

                  I also have more snow and ice coming my way this evening. Shingen is on standby just in case.

                  Gassho,

                  Shugen


                  Shugen
                  Got yah covered brother! =)

                  Gassho
                  Shingen

                  SatToday

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                  • Kyonin
                    Treeleaf Priest / Engineer
                    • Oct 2010
                    • 6749

                    #10
                    Snow?

                    What's that? That's only in movies!!

                    Oh wait...

                    Gassho,

                    Kyonin
                    Hondō Kyōnin
                    奔道 協忍

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                    • Erik de Heiden
                      Member
                      • Jan 2015
                      • 51

                      #11
                      Tnx Kyonin,

                      will be there...
                      SAT2day
                      Kind regards

                      Erik

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                      • BrianL
                        Member
                        • Feb 2015
                        • 5

                        #12
                        I plan to be there!

                        - Brian
                        sat2day

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                        • Kyotai

                          #13
                          I'll be live

                          Gassho, Kyotai
                          Sat today

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                          • Myosha
                            Member
                            • Mar 2013
                            • 2974

                            #14
                            Participating. Thanks to all.

                            Gassho
                            Myosha sat today
                            Last edited by Myosha; 02-21-2015, 01:33 AM.
                            "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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                            • Mp

                              #15
                              Wonderful job Kyonin and Shugen ... it was great to sit with you all. Have a fantastic weekend. =)

                              Gassho
                              Shingen

                              SatToday

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