Thursday, November 13 Rev. Shodo Spring Sensei offers a Dharma talk at All Beings Zen Temple. Rev. Shodo will focus on their recently published book “Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings”, online and in person.
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Thursday, November 13 Rev. Shodo Spring Sensei offers a Dharma talk at All Beings Zen Temple. Rev. Shodo will focus on their recently published book “Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings”, online and in person.
To join us online via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 493323
Use this link to join. If asked use this password 493323
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.
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Service
Morning Greetings
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 493323
Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking ) and then our monthly Full Moon Ceremony and 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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Full Moon Ceremony
Pass the feather
Refuges in Pali
Baikaryu Eisanka 6-7pm– Japanese Plum Blossom Style Hymns with bells. Today we will be reviewing and singing ‘Sanbo Gowasan – English: Hymns of the Three Treasures’ .. as well as continuing to learn ‘Magokoro Ni Ikiru – English: Living with a True Heart’ in person only – Contact Zen’etsu @ zenjoyclay@gmail.com for more information
Baika Vows we chant before beginning of practice:
Dharma Tea on Tuesday Tea at 2pm- 2:45pm, Use this link to join If asked for a password use 493323
Shinren Mark will discuss Eihei Dogen’s teaching that every moment is a full expression of all existence, containing past, present, and future simultaneously. This perspective may offer valuable insights into the felt experience of our zazen meditation. Shinren, a longtime member of All Beings Zen Sangha, shares meditation practices with the underserved in DC. online only.
Use this link to join. If asked, use the password: 493323
Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen, an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between) and another period of Zazen. 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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Refuges in Pali
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 493323
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
Heart Sutra in English
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Refuges in Pali
Today! Dharma Tea on Tuesday for October 21, 2025 2pm
“The Vanishing of Rose B” – Please join All Beings Zen Sangha for a book talk led by author Nancy Garruba. To join use this link. If asked for a password use 493323 online only
Group photos after our full day of zazen, kinhin (indoor and outdoor), tea-discussion, and oryoki … in which, we decided the theme for our silly closing photo to be ‘pickled plum’ … being that our Tenzo Bruno made the most delicious traditional japanese 3-bowl meal, with pickled plum as a condiment. Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors, Sour-Sublime Tastes.
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.
