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. May all beings be happy!
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.
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.
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.
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)
Monday March 10th, 2025 6:00-7:00pm – ABZS Book Club Online only– For the month of March, we will be reading ‘Inciting Joy’ by Ross Gay. Please join on March 10th to share and discuss! Here is the link to sign in. If asked for a password use 099118
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)
Seiryū says “The Ireicho event was well attended, with many persons of Japanese descent and their extended families. 100 year old Masaharu Ishii stamped his sister’s name in the Ireicho to officially kick off the national tour before I arrived. After stamping the Ireicho, a journalist, Daisuke Nakai, from the major Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun asked if he could speak with me. “Why I was present, do I have Japanese heritage & what is the meaning for me. I replied that I was stamping the names of Rev Jiko Nakade’s grandfather & 2 Daifukuji priests from Kealakekua, HI who were rounded up, taken to Sand Island off of Oahu then shipped by boat to the mainland detention camps. There were no Buddhists in robes or rakusus in the audience. Publically Rev Duncan Williams is very approachable and humble. After the event he greeted me warmly saying, “I look forward to being involved with All Beings Zen Sangha again.””
The 1942 Executive Order 9066 authorized the US military to remove people deemed a threat to national security leading to the incarceration of Japanese Americans in violation of their civil liberties. To acknowledge and remember them, the Ireicho, a book of the names of over 125,000 incarcerated persons is touring 12 of the continental internment camp sites. Ireichomeans” book consoling spirits.”
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)
TuesdayFebruary 25th, 2025 – Dharma Tea on Tuesdays at 2 -2:45pm Tea led by Beata Stylianos on her “Experience of Meeting the Dalai Lama on a Roof in Cambridge, MA”. online only Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787
Sangha group pictures from our February Zazenkai — where for our afternoon tea discussion we read a passage from Ross Gay’s book ‘Inciting Joy’ …
In one section we read, “What if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things? What if joy, instead of refuge or relief from heartbreak, is what effloresces from us as we help each other carry our heartbreaks?”
A very nourishing day of Zen practice..
Also, please admire the beautiful flower arrangement that one of the attendees created during Samu (Work Practice).
