Evening Practice for April 18, 2024 7pm Eastern

Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM  for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.  Tonight we will have a short service before one period of Zazen. We will then have our monthly Wellbeing Service and the chanting of the refuges.    If you would like stay after refuges and do a welcome and check-in please do

If you are asked for a password please use this  806719

ABZS does keep an attendance of participation in sangha events*  this is done for the welfare of it’s members and for guidance in future programing

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 period of zazen

5 minute period of Kinhin (slow walking meditation)

Wellbeing Service

Enmei X 9

Loving Kindness Meditation

Dedication of merit.

Refuges in Pali

Maka Hanya Haramita Shin Gyo

KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN HAN NYA

HA RA MI TA JI SHO KEN GO ON KAI

KU DO IS SAI KU YAKU SHA RI SHI

SHIKI FU I KU KU FU I SHIKI SHIKI 

SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKI JU SO

GYO SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE SHA RI

SHI ZE SHO HO KU SO FU SHO FU

METSU FU KU FU JO FU ZO FU GEN

ZE KO KU CHU MU SHIKI MU JU SO

GYO SHIKI MU GEN NI BI ZE SHIN

NI MU SHIKI SHO KO MI SOKU HO MU

GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI MU

MU MYO YAKU MU MU MYO JIN NAI 

SHI MU RO SHI YAKU MU RO SHI JIN

MU KU SHU METSU DO MU CHI YAKU 

MU TOKU I MU SHO TOK KO BO DAI

SAT TA E HAN NYA HA RA MI TA

KO SHIN MU KE GE MU KE GE KO

MU U KU FU ON RI IS SAI TEN DO

MU SO KU GYO NE HAN SAN ZE SHO

BUTSU E HAN NYA HA RA MI TA

KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAM MYAKU

SAM BO DAI KO CHI HAN NYA HA

RA MI TA ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI

MYO SHU ZE MU JO SHU ZE MU TO 

DO SHU NO JO IS SAI KU SHIN JITSU

FU KO KO SETSU HAN NYA HA RA 

MI TA SHU SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU

GYA TE GYA TE HA RA GYA TE

HARA SO GYA TE BO DHI SOWA KA 

HAN NYA SHIN GYO

Well Being Ceremony –

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo (9 times) led by Kokyo

Loving Kindness Meditation led byDoshi Call and Response

Dedication of Merit led by Doshi

Refuges in Pali

Post service check in (please feel welcome to stay or depart as your schedule requires)

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo X9

KAN ZEON                

NA MU BUTSU

YO BUTSU U IN

YO BUTSU U EN

BUP PO SO  EN            

JO RAKU GA JO

CHO NEN KANZEON

BO NEN KANZEON

NEN NEN JU SHIN KI      

NEN NEN FU RI SHIN

Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)

This is what should be accomplished by the one who is wise,

Who seeks the good and has obtained peace:

Let one be strenuous, upright and sincere,

WIthout pride, easily contented and joyous.

Let one not be submerged by the things of the world.

Let one not take upon one’s self the burden of riches.

Let one’s senses be controlled.

Let one be wise, but not puffed up: and 

Let one not desire great possessions even for one’s family.

Let one do nothing that is mean or that the wise would reprove

May all beings be happy.

May they be joyous and live in safety.

All living beings, whether weak or strong,

In high or middle or low realms of existence,

Small or great, visible or invisible, 

Near or far, born or to be born,

May all beings be happy.

Let no one deceive another, nor despise any being in any state;

Let none by anger or hatred wish harm to another.

Even as a mother at the risk of her life

Watches over and protects her only child,

So with a boundless mind should one cherish all living things,

Suffusing love over the entire world,

Above, below and all around without limit; 

So let one cultivate an infinite good will toward the whole world.

Standing or walking, sitting or lying down,

During all one’s waking hours

Let one practice the way with gratitude.

Not holding to fixed views,

Endowed with insight, 

Freed from sense appetites,

One who achieves the way

Will be freed from the duality of birth and death.

Refuges in Pali (Call and Response)

Accapella, inflections as follows:

➞Buddham Saranam Ga➚cha➘mi➞iii

BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI