Virtual Community
Welcome the Virtual Community
How to install Zoom and join a meditation or meeting.
You will need to download zoom to your computer or down the app to your smart phone or IPAD.
Once you have it down loaded zoom on your computer , smart phone or IPAD , you can open zoom and join a meeting.
Enter the meeting ID which is always 494 518 7463.
Zoom now requires a password to enter an instant meeting. Please email me and I will send the password to you. My email is mark@shinki.org. We apologize for this extra step.
Everyone is muted when they enter the meditation hall. there is no need to mute your screen so choose join with audio. You will be visible and you will see everyone sitting that day including yourself.
click here This will take you to Zoom on your computer (not on your smart phone or IPAD), after you have installed it. Or click on Zoom on your computer.
Daily Meditation Times
7:30-8:00 am Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Friday.
The meditation hall is open 10 minutes before any scheduled sitting.
Monthly Sunday Meditation (One Sunday a month)
Schedule is 10:00-12:00 pm
Periods are 25 minutes with a 5 minute interval between periods for stretching
Schedule dates for 2020 Sunday Virtual sittings are: always the last Sundayof each month. And last Sundays are also scheduled for 2021.
Forms for meditation
Move if you need to during meditation quietly and with awareness. Take care of your knees and body. Keep your back straight.
We sit so that we can be visible on camera.
You are welcome to have coffee or tea during the meditation period.
That's about it.
We chant at the end of the meditation.
May all beings know happiness and the causes of happiness.May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May all beings never be separated from the great happiness that is beyond all misery.
May all beings dwell in equanimity, unaffected by attraction and aversion.
The chant from Gen Rimpa's book, Shamatha Meditation
See the sub page Meditation Instructions for additional suggestions.
Here is a useful link to meditation posture advice click here
If you are interested in more formal instruction check out the official website of the Soto church click here
Zen meditation is called Zazen or sit upright. This is a form of gnosis not a meditative technique to achieve a particular conciousness.
Loving Kindness meditation or Calming techniques are avaialable. I suggest you keep this seperate from Zazen. Raise a kind and compassionate intention 'May all beings ______ be happy. fill in the blank. After doing this compassion/kindness practice for let's say five minutes, then just let go and sit your period of Zazen.