Tuesday, October 14: Tuesday Tea at 2pm “Direct Experiencing and Gestalt Awareness Practice” – led by Glen Bradley (they/Glen). Online only Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 613535

Glen, who is a Gestalt psychotherapist (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Washington DC, will present on an awareness process from Gestalt psychotherapy called Gestalt Awareness Practice. It’s a secular spiritual practice inspired by the Zen philosophy of “direct experiencing” through somatic embodied expression without (or with minimal) verbal language. The process is a path toward accessing emotions and energetic content through somatic means and embodied expression. 

Use this link to join. If asked use this password 613535

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.

Robe Chant

40 minute period of Zazen

Four Great Vows

Morning Service

Morning Greetings

Use this link to join. If asked use this password 613535

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

Full Moon Morning Service

Morning Greetings

Use this link to join. If asked use this password 613535

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.

Robe Chant

40 minute period of Zazen

Four Great Vows

Morning Service

Morning Greetings

Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 613535

Tonight we will have a short service followed by two periods of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking). We will have our monthly Pass the Feather sharing. 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

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Heart Sutra in English

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

25 Minute Zazen Period

Pass the feather

Refuges in Pali

Sven offered ABZS members information on responsible foraging practices. He shared how to identify three types of Fungi (Turkey Feather, Mitaki and Chicken of the Woods. We then enjoy a tea, a bowl of stew and a rice dish. Each one including one of the mushrooms in the recipe.

“Nature is bountiful if we take care of it! Come learn about the wonderful things we can forage in nature from the DMV area. The workshop is an introduction to foraging with respect to the land, including how we can build understanding of our surrounding environment and cultivate positive relationships with land through the art of foraging.” Sven Andes