October 9th-10th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

[Washin]

Thank you, Jundo.
I'll sit with the recording of this one tomorrow during the day.

Gassho,
Sergey
sat-today

Hi Shingen,

We are not going to be using the "standby" system now.

If very many people indicate beforehand that they wish to sit "two-way", I will try to arrange a second live hangout instead.

So, come on in!

Gassho, Jundo

SatToday

Okie dokie, I will be there! =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[Jundo]

Thank you, I will be there two way if a spot is available ... will be waiting on standby. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

Hi Shingen,

We are not going to be using the "standby" system now.

If very many people indicate beforehand that they wish to sit "two-way", I will try to arrange a second live hangout instead.

So, come on in!

Gassho, Jundo

SatToday

Thank you, I will be there two way if a spot is available ... will be waiting on standby. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[Jundo]

Hello All,

Please 'sit-a-long' with our weekly FRIDAY/SATURDAY 'LIVE FROM TREELEAF' 90 minute ZAZENKAI, netcast from 10am Japan time Saturday morning (that is New York 9pm, Los Angeles 6pm (Friday night), London 2am and Paris 3am (early Saturday morning)

... and to be visible on the following screen 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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OybydIf-Bv8
https://plus.google.com/events/c8eti...aiv19sna687s08

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