Dharma Talk offered by Inryū Sensei August 31, 2023 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 short service with Heart Sutra in Japanese followed by one period of Zazen and a Dharma Talk by our ABZS Guiding Teacher Inryū Sensei.   We will close by chanting the Refuges in Pali.  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  041285

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

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Heart Sutra in Japanese

Dedication of Merit

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 Minute Kinhin (slow walking) interval

Dharma Talk

Four Great Vows

Refuges in Pali

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

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    

Maka Hanya Haramita Shin Gyo (Heart Sutra in Japanese)

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

The Four Great Vows

Beings are numberless; I vow to save them.

Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.

Dharma Gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.

Buddha’s way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.