photo by John Flanagan
Author: bagheerayoga
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Morning Practice for July 18, 2025 6:30am Eastern
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
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Evening Practice for July 17, 2025 7pm Eastern
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 480731
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
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All Beings Zen Sangha Book Group Meeting July 14, 2025 6pm Eastern
Online only.
July 14,2025 6pm — Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 043056
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japan’s Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo; the park near Ueno Station – the same place his unquiet spirit now haunts in death. It is here that Kazu’s life in Tokyo began, as a labourer in the run up to the 1964 Olympics, and later where he ended his days, living in the park’s vast homeless ‘villages’, traumatised by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and enraged by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Akutagawa-award-winning author Yū Miri uses her outsider’s perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan’s most vulnerable people.
Know someone who would like to join this dharma focused book club. This is a Monthly Dharma Book Club – contact Shoku @ cristinamariabenavides@gmail.com to be included in reminder emails and notices about future selections
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ABZS at Green Gulch Farm for Sangha Week in June 2025
Ten members of All Beings Zen Sangha enjoyed a 5 day sangha week retreat that included a visit to Sokoji Temple, Diaryú Michael Wenger’s art show at Enso Village and a hike along Coyote Ridge.
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Morning Practice for July 11, 2025 6:30am Eastern
Use this link to join. If asked use this password 480731Please 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
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Evening Practice for July 10, 2025 7pm Eastern
Photograph by Inryū Sensei
Use this link to join. If asked use this password 480731Please 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
Evening Greetings
Historically, July’s full moon is called the buck moon because it aligns with the time of year where the antlers of male deer, or bucks, are quickly growing, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
Other monikers for July’s full moon from Indigenous tribes are indicative of the summer season. The Cree, located primarily in Canada, know it as the molting moon to indicate the time of year when birds are shedding their feathers, while the Tlingit tribe in the Pacific Northwest Coast call it the salmon moon to signify the seasonal salmon migrations. information from…CNN news service
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Flash Film Event for June 13, 2025 7pm
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
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Tuesday Dharma Tea for June 10, 2025 2-2:45pm Eastern
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.
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Dharma Tea on Tuesday for June 3, 3035 2-2:45pm Eastern
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
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Evening Practice for May 29, 2025 7pm Eastern
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 a Dharma Talk by Inryū Sensei. 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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Dharma Talk
Refuges in Pali