December 18th-19th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai

Wonderful, thank you everyone. Have a great weekend. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#sattoday

[Jakuden]

At the movies!! Will sit with the recording ��
Gassho,
Sierra
SatToday

[Sekishi]

Sitting by...

Gassho,
Sekishi

Standing by ... =)

Gassho
Shingen

#staning by to sit

[Jundo]

Apparently I set the hangout on my personal account. I must start from scratch. Standby. Gassho, J

[Sekishi]

Internet daemons willing, I'll be there live.

Gassho,
Sekishi
#SatToday

[Gukan]

Going to try and sit this one live after an evening getting jobs done, assuming I can stay awake But one-way!

Gassho,
Libby

sattoday

[Kyonin]

I'll be there live

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

[Shinzan]

I will have to sit this one recorded, due to travel schedule.
_/st\_ Shinzan

I too will be there with bells on. =)

Gassho
Shingen

#justsat

[Doshin]

I will attend.

Gassho
Randy
sattoday

[Anshu Bryson]

Google+ glitches notwithstanding , I'll be there...

Gassho,
Anshu

-sat today-

[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 8pm, Los Angeles 5pm (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

http://youtu.be/S2aLRJuFsb0
https://plus.google.com/events/ct4aa...it2365t58am2so

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