Cloud Zendo
Cloud Zendo is our online, streaming zendo.
Regular zazen periods are Mon-Fri, from 6-7am and 12-1pm.
Wednesday Community Zazen, Sunday Community Zazen, Zendo in the Park, and zazenkai are also streamed.
Please feel free to join us.
Tips
It is best to meditate while not directly in front of your screen but with the screen still showing your body and posture somehow. Please turn the camera toward your face for dharma discussion and teisho. Everyone except for the head of zendo will automatically be muted upon entering. Please leave yourself muted (even during chanting). It may be wise to play around with the app prior to the actual sit to familiarize yourself with the settings, although some options may not be available without others also online.
Bells and Bowing
For those unfamiliar with the forms, each zazen period begins with a clap, followed by four bells. A period is closed with one bell and two claps. The stretch break will last for about two minutes, after which there will be another clap and four bells. Again, the period will close with a bell and two claps. You may join in with the chant or simply listen, but everyone except the chant leader will  be muted. A series of bells will then mark the end of each chanting period indicating sanpai (Buddhist prostrations acknowledging Buddha, Dharma and Sangha): after a series of bells, there is a single bell indicating that it is time to bow followed by a clank indicating it is time to stand again. We do this three times. Three final bells indicates a final standing bow to the altar.