October 30th-31st Treeleaf Weekly BOOOO!zenkai

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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40379

    October 30th-31st Treeleaf Weekly BOOOO!zenkai

    Special Halloween Edition! Costumes Welcome!

    ALSO NOTE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS CHANGE IN EUROPE, NOT YET IN NORTH AMERICA



    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 1am and Paris 2am (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



    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
    Last edited by Jundo; 10-31-2015, 12:02 AM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40379

    #2
    Let me mention that our Zendo in Tsukuba is also doubling as a Spook House for the local neighborhood kids this weekend, an annual event here, so you may see a few extra decorations.

    Some folks say that Halloween should not be a Buddhist event, but I very much disagree. Perhaps we might avoid the darker, crueler, more violent humor in any costumes and film choices, sure. But laughing at the imagined things that scare us, and turning them to sweets (in moderation!) sounds like what our practice is about. In fact. Buddha, Jizo, Kannon and all the greats regularly headed down to hell, it is said, to help feed the hungry ghosts and all the other evil spirits. Is that not a kind of Buddhist "trick or treat"?

    I know of at least a few Zen groups in America (Shasta Abbey, Dharma Rain and others) that even moved their "Feeding the Hungry Ghosts/Gate of Sweet Nectar" ceremony to this weekend:

    On Friday November 2 we celebrated Sejiki, which we time to coincide, more or less, with Halloween. During this ceremony we chant the Kanromon, or Gate of Sweet Dew, after attracting the attention …


    San Francisco Zen Center too apparently ...

    This “practical, down-to-earth, and very wise guide to awakening” offers a Zen-based approach to coping with physical, psychological, and spiritual pain (Jack Kornfield) Darlene Cohen discovered the secret to finding happiness in the midst of debilitating pain. She shares her knowledge in her popular workshops and now in this book. Cohen, who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for eighteen years, was hobbling painfully to her local Zen center one day, when she made a discovery that changed her life: if she focused on the foot that was in the air rather than the one that was hitting the pavement, her stamina increased enormously. It was the beginning of a completely different approach to the crippling pain that had beset her for so long. As she demonstrates here, this approach can be expanded to all types of pain: physical, psychological, and spiritual.Cohen—a certified massage and movement therapist and Zen teacher—proposes a radically liberating alternative to the usual desperate search for pain relief: paradoxically, she says, release from suffering lies in paying closer attention to it. When we keep pain at bay, we keep pleasure at bay, too. The two are interdependent, and our ability to experience each is totally dependent on our understanding of the other.“Enrich your life exponentially,” Cohen advises. If your pain is one of the ten things you are aware of, then it constitutes a tenth of your total awareness. Expand your awareness to a hundred things, however, and your pain is only a hundredth of your awareness. With stories, strategies, exercises, and an awareness born of long Zen practice, Cohen shows us how to tap into that enrichment—and how we can lead a satisfying and even joyful life in the very midst of pain.


    A Koan: Do Vampires have Buddha Nature? MUUUU! BOOOOO!

    So ...

    Ghastly Ghouly Gassho, Jundo


    Last edited by Jundo; 10-30-2015, 04:23 AM.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    • Mp

      #3
      Wooooo ooooo ... I will be sitting live! LOL

      Gassho
      Shingen

      #sattoday

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      • Anshu Bryson
        Member
        • Aug 2014
        • 566

        #4
        Originally posted by Shingen
        Wooooo ooooo ... I will be sitting live! LOL

        Gassho
        Shingen

        #sattoday

        I will be sitting undead...

        Gassho,
        Anshu

        -sat today-

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        • Kyonin
          Treeleaf Priest / Engineer
          • Oct 2010
          • 6749

          #5
          Hi Jundo!

          No need for a costume here. I just need to get close to the camera and that's it! Everyone runs in fear.

          Plus, I'll be chanting tonight. Now that's scary!

          These days are special for Mexicans because we celebrate the Day of the Dead with special meals and decorations. We do fear death and that's why we turned it into a festivity.

          A lot of homes set up special altars with food and beverages for the spirits of their dead loved ones, who come once a year to party among the living

          ofrenda.jpg


          Gassho,

          Kyonin
          #SatToday
          Hondō Kyōnin
          奔道 協忍

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          • Mp

            #6


            Gassho
            Shingen

            #justsat

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            • Doshin
              Member
              • May 2015
              • 2641

              #7
              I will sit live if room in the spook house.


              Gassho,

              Randy
              sit with you all tonight

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              • Shinzan
                Member
                • Nov 2013
                • 338

                #8
                I will materialize tooooooooooowoowooo.
                _/st\_ Shinzan

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                • RichardH
                  Member
                  • Nov 2011
                  • 2800

                  #9
                  Starting late and working late today. Will sit recorded.

                  ....and Boo.

                  Gassho
                  Daizan

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                  • Geika
                    Treeleaf Unsui
                    • Jan 2010
                    • 4984

                    #10
                    I have always felt Dia de las Muertas traditions looked really fun and a lot more meaningful to me. I live where I live, so I will always participate in these Halloween traditions!

                    Gassho, sat today
                    求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
                    I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.

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                    • Jakuden
                      Member
                      • Jun 2015
                      • 6141

                      #11
                      I will sit one way, although I may be interrupted by my daughter coming home from her scary middle school Halloween dance!
                      Gassho,
                      Sierra
                      SatToday

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                      • Onkai
                        Treeleaf Unsui
                        • Aug 2015
                        • 3026

                        #12
                        I will be there two-way or one-way.

                        Gassho,
                        Laurie
                        Sat Last Night
                        美道 Bidou Beautiful Way
                        恩海 Onkai Merciful/Kind Ocean

                        I have a lot to learn; take anything I say that sounds like teaching with a grain of salt.

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                        • Sekishi
                          Treeleaf Priest
                          • Apr 2013
                          • 5675

                          #13
                          I will be there, to save sentient beings from the many hell realms!!

                          Gaaaasssshhhhoooooo!
                          Sekishi
                          Sekishi | 石志 | He/him | Better with a grain of salt, but best ignored entirely.

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                          • Joyo

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Sekishi
                            I will be there, to save sentient beings from the many hell realms!!

                            Gaaaasssshhhhoooooo!
                            Sekishi

                            This is so funny!!! And your avatar picture, lol!!!!

                            I will try to be there for at least part of it, if I cannot get in live, I will sit one-way. Happy Halloween everyone =)

                            Gassho,
                            Joyo
                            sat toda

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                            • Myogan
                              Member
                              • Aug 2015
                              • 375

                              #15
                              I will be there.

                              Dia de Los Muertos has a lot I common with Obon and families honoring their loved ones at the graves.
                              Marc Connery
                              明岩
                              Myo̅ Gan - Bright Cliff

                              I put the Monkey in Monkeymind

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