The Zen of Screens – a workshop September 24th, 8am-9:30am

Join us for this exploration of the way in which the time we spend looking and interacting with Screens (smartphones, computers, etc.) has an impact on body, mind and soul.

“Our growing use of screens (smartphones, computers, etc.) raises questions for each of us: What is our relationship with our screens? How do screens make us more and less connected?  How do they bear on our spiritual journey?

8am-9:30am                            Please RSVP: inryu@allbeingszen.org

Here is a basic outline of our upcoming event

Program for “The Zen of Screens”

  • Ten-minute meditation
  • Motivation for workshop—Surveys show that adults think they spend two hours of screen time per day, but they actually spend four hours. The dominance of screens in our life raises new questions: What is our relationship with your screens? How do screens make us more or less connected?  How do they bear on our spiritual journeys?
  • Discussion 1—Each participant can say a few words on screens in their life.
  • Exercise 1—Each participant spends 10 mindful minutes on their screen doing their most common activities, followed by a 10 minute body scan meditation. Discussion.
  • Discussion 2—Most folks feel they are too caught up in screens, and their posture and thinking reflect excessive use. What is it that explains our excessive use? Screens could be another way for us to avoid our discomfort and naturally leads to consideration of the four noble truths.
  • Discussion 3

o   Skillful screen use—Practical tips for how we use screens eg clean up apps, keep screen in different room…

o   Skillful screen time— Record your screen time; hide digital distractions; digital fasting.

  • Final discussion

 

Shinren Mark Stone will help us develop our awareness of the influence of screens on body, mind and soul. Bring your favorite device!”

 

May All Beings Be Happy!

The All Beings Zen Sangha welcomes and affirms all who come here to seek the Way, and who will work toward respectful acceptance of others across our many differences, harmonizing the one and the many.

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Month: September 2017

  • All Beings Zen Sangha Book Group Meeting July 14, 2025 6pm Eastern

     Online only.

    July 14,2025 6pm — Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 043056

    Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japan’s Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo; the park near Ueno Station – the same place his unquiet spirit now haunts in death. It is here that Kazu’s life in Tokyo began, as a labourer in the run up to the 1964 Olympics, and later where he ended his days, living in the park’s vast homeless ‘villages’, traumatised by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and enraged by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Akutagawa-award-winning author Yū Miri uses her outsider’s perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan’s most vulnerable people.

    Know someone who would like to join this dharma focused book club. This is a Monthly Dharma Book Club – contact Shoku @ cristinamariabenavides@gmail.com to be included in reminder emails and notices about future selections

  • Morning Practice for July 14, 2025 6:30am Eastern


    Use this link to join. If asked use this password 480731

    Please put your zoom in gallery mode, and keep your video link on while muting your mic until the end of the service – Feel welcome to face away from your device camera while keeping your presence visible in the frame for others in attendance to see and know you are there. Please refrain from moving your device around while others are sitting zazen with you.

    Morning Practice

    Robe Chant

    40 minute period of Zazen

    Four Great Vows

    Morning Service

    Morning Greetings

  • ABZS at Green Gulch Farm for Sangha Week in June 2025

    Ten members of All Beings Zen Sangha enjoyed a 5 day sangha week retreat that included a visit to Sokoji Temple, Diaryú Michael Wenger’s art show at Enso Village and a hike along Coyote Ridge.

  • Morning Practice for July 11, 2025 6:30am Eastern


    Use this link to join. If asked use this password 480731

    Please put your zoom in gallery mode, and keep your video link on while muting your mic until the end of the service – Feel welcome to face away from your device camera while keeping your presence visible in the frame for others in attendance to see and know you are there. Please refrain from moving your device around while others are sitting zazen with you.

    Morning Practice

    Robe Chant

    40 minute period of Zazen

    Four Great Vows

    Morning Service

    Morning Greetings

  • Evening Practice for July 10, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Photograph by Inryū Sensei


    Use this link to join. If asked use this password 480731

    Please put your zoom in gallery mode, and keep your video link on while muting your mic until the end of the service – Feel welcome to face away from your device camera while keeping your presence visible in the frame for others in attendance to see and know you are there. Please refrain from moving your device around while others are sitting zazen with you.

    Order of Morning Practice

    Robe Chant

    40 minute period of Zazen

    Four Great Vows

    Full Moon Service

    Evening Greetings

    Historically, July’s full moon is called the buck moon because it aligns with the time of year where the antlers of male deer, or bucks, are quickly growing, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

    Other monikers for July’s full moon from Indigenous tribes are indicative of the summer season. The Cree, located primarily in Canada, know it as the molting moon to indicate the time of year when birds are shedding their feathers, while the Tlingit tribe in the Pacific Northwest Coast call it the salmon moon to signify the seasonal salmon migrations. information from…CNN news service

  • Evening Practice for June 19, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Evening Practice for June 19, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050

    Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between) and then our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony. We will conclude by chanting the refuges in Pali.

    Please feel welcome to stay on zoom if you are able to share greetings with the sangha.

    Please put your zoom in gallery mode, and keep your video link on while muting your mic until the end of the service – Feel welcome to face away from your device camera while keeping your presence visible in the frame for others in attendance to see and know you are there. Please refrain from moving your device around while others are sitting zazen with you.

    Order of Service

    Greeting by the Kokyo

    Evening Bell Chant

    Harmony of Difference and Equality

    25 Minute Zazen Period

    5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

    Our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony

    Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

    Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)

  • Morning Practice for June 17, 2025 6:30am Eastern

    Morning Practice for June 17, 2025 6:30am Eastern

    Join us on zoom by using this link. If asked for a password use 790875


    Photograph by Zen’etsu

    Please put your zoom in gallery mode, and keep your video link on while muting your mic until the end of the service – Feel welcome to face away from your device camera while keeping your presence visible in the frame for others in attendance to see and know you are there. Please refrain from moving your device around while others are sitting zazen with you.

    Order of Morning Practice

    Robe Chant

    40 minute period of Zazen

    Four Great Vows

    Morning Service

    Morning Greetings

  • Flash Event for June 13, 2025 7pm

    Flash Event for June 13, 2025 7pm

    FLASH EVENT – Friday June 13th, 2025 7PM – FLASH EVENT – Movie Night –” Les Glaneurs et La Glanesue” (2000) directed by Agnès Varda. In person only at our urban zendo. Towards the end of the 1990’s French documentary filmmaker Agnès Varda was inspired by an 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet to cross the French countryside and videotape people who scavenge what others discard or lay to waste. Varda surveyed people picking up the remains of a harvest crop and local market, people who snoop through rubbish in urban trash cans, and diggers at the seaside looking for oysters, among others. Through her visual journey, she offers a charming narration to reveal her findings to the viewer, and explore ways to subsist in relation to community. – In person only /Urban Zendo

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  • Evening Practice for June 12, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Evening Practice for June 12, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050

    Tonight we will have a short service followed by two periods of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between). We will conclude with chanting the Refuges in Pali. Please feel welcome to stay on zoom if you are able to share greetings with the sangha.

    Please put your zoom in gallery mode, and keep your video link on while muting your mic until the end of the service – Feel welcome to face away from your device camera while keeping your presence visible in the frame for others in attendance to see and know you are there. Please refrain from moving your device around while others are sitting zazen with you.

    Order of Service (text available at highlighted links)

    Greeting by the Kokyo

    Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

    Heart Sutra in Spanish

    25 Minute Zazen Period

    5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

    25 Minute Zazen Period

    Refuges in Pali

    Announcements and Introductions