For those who may have missed it, Shinren Mark Stone’s talk about zen practice and technology was recently profiled by NPR. It’s an excellent write up.
For those who may have missed it, Shinren Mark Stone’s talk about zen practice and technology was recently profiled by NPR. It’s an excellent write up.
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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All Beings Zen Sangha
27290 Woodburn Hill Road
Mechanicsville, MD 20659
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All Beings Zen Sangha
C/O Rev. Inryū Ponce-Barger,
2801 Adams Mill Road NW 402
Washington DC 20009
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
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Service
Morning Greetings
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
Join us on zoom by using this link. If asked for a password use 790875
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
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Service
Morning Greetings
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
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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Refuges in Pali
Announcements and Introductions
Join us on zoom by using this link. If asked for a password use 790875
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
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Greetings
Tuesday June 10 , 2025 – Dharma Tea on Tuesdays at 2pm (2-2:45pm) Taking care of your own wash water/bringing our sincere heart to everything. Let’s look at and discuss how we manage the resources that flow through our lives. And ask the question is anything every really trash/waste? Led by Inryū Sensei.
You should entreat trees and rocks to preach the dharma, and you should ask rice fields and gardens for the truth. Ask pillars for the dharma, and learn from hedges and walls. In earth, stones, sand, and pebbles, there is to be found the extremely inconceivable mind which moves the sincere heart.
—Dogen Zenji
Join this conversation about bringing Oryoki philosophy to everyday activites. online only. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787.
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 have our monthly pass the feather sharing and 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 (text available at highlighted links)
Greeting by the Kokyo
The Harmony of Difference and Sameness
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Pass the feather
Tuesday June 3 , 2025 – Dharma Tea on Tuesdays at 2pm (2-2:45pm) The Zen of Birding Led by Esho Beth Milligan. online only. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787