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Rohatsu Sesshin Practice for November 29, 2021 6:30am – 8:15pm Eastern

Join All Beings Zen Sangha Sunday November 29, 2021 for the Monday Full Day Schedule in observance of Rohatsu (Buddha’s enlightenment). You are welcome to join as little or as much as your schedule permits. In-person participation is limited so check with Inryū if you plan to participate in-person

Monday through Friday Rohatsu Schedule Use this link to join via zoom. If asked for a password use 395693

6:30 – 7:10 Zazen
7:10- 7:30 Morning Service
7:30-8:45 Breakfast Morning Break/Dharma Study
8:45- 9:45 Morning Walk or indoor exercise
9:45- 10:15 Zazen
10:15- 11:00 Dharma Talk
11:00-11:30 Zazen
11:30-11:40 Kinhin
11:40- 12:15 Zazen
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Outdoor Kinhin/or Dharma Study
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-2:30 Work Practice 
2:30-3:15 Tea with Discussion
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30- 3:45 Kinhin 
3:45-4:15 Zazen
4:15-4:25 Kinhin
4:25-4:50 Zazen
4:50 – 5:00 Service
5:00 – 6:30 Dinner Evening Break
6:30 – 7:00 Zazen
7:00 – 7: 10 Kinhin
7:10-7:40 Zazen
7:40-7:45 Kinhin
7:45-8:15 Zazen
8:15 Purification Chant /Refuges in Pali

Saturday Final Day of Rohatsu Sesshin. Use Monday-Friday link to sign in.

6:30 – 7:10 Zazen
7:10- 7:30 Morning Service
7:30-8:45 Breakfast Morning Break/Dharma Study
8:45- 9:45 Morning Walk or indoor exercise
9:45- 10:15 Zazen
10:15- 11:00 Dharma Talk
11:00-11:30 Zazen
11:30-11:40 Kinhin
11:40- 12:15 Zazen
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Outdoor Kinhin/or Dharma Study
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-2:30 Work Practice 
2:30-3:15 Tea with Discussion
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30- 3:45 Kinhin 
3:45-4:15 Zazen
4:15-5:00 Shosan Ceremony, Chanting Heart Sutra in Pali 108 times, Refuges in Pali
End of Rohatsu Sesshin

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Morning Practice for November 24, 2021 6:30 Eastern

Here is the link to join us via Zoom at 6:30am for morning zazen practice.

If you are asked for a password use this   346068

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.

Click below to see the order of service and chants.

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Dharma Tea at 2pm on November 23, 2021 2-2:45 pm

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Dharma tea at 2pm led by Cristina Leifson on the topic of ” The Zen of Going to the Restroom”. We will start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking and conclude the discussion with the four great vows. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 897614. Cristina says “I will talk about Suzuki-Roshi’s teaching on ” The Zen of Going to the Restroom, from Not Always So :). To get people ready, in case they are not familiar, please know that this is not a talk about literally going to the bathroom.

“Fortunately or unfortunately, even though you don’t like it, we need to go to the rest room, the stinky rest room. I am sorry, but I think we have to go to the rest room as long as we live.” – Suzuki Roshi 

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Zazenkai Schedule for November 20, 2021 6:30am – 4:30pm Eastern

6:30 – 7:10 Zazen
7:10- 7:30 Morning Service
7:30-9:00 Breakfast Morning Break
9:00- 10:00 Morning Walk or indoor exercise
10:15- 11:00 Dharma Talk
11:00-11:30 Zazen
11:30-11:40 Kinhin
11:40- 12:15 Zazen
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Outdoor Kinhin/or Dharma Study
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-2:30 Work Practice 
2:30-3:15 Tea with Discussion
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30- 3:45 Kinhin 
3:45-4:15 Zazen
4:15-4:25 Kinhin
4:25-4:30 Refuges in Pali 

Use this link to join. If asked use this password  048577

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Evening Practice for November 18, 2021 7pm Eastern

Please join us tonight for a short service, one period of zazen followed by the Full Moon Ceremony.  Use this link to join and if asked used this password  641260.

Order of Service

Kokyo will welcome the sangha

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Heart Sutra in English

30 minute period of zazen

Ryaku Fusatsu/ Full Moon Ceremony

Refuges in Pali

If you are able to stay on the zoom call or in the zendo following the end of service we will have a brief check with those in attendance.

RYAKU FUSATSU

Full Moon Bodhisattva Ceremony

Repentance (3 X call and response)

All my ancient twisted karma

From beginningless greed, hate, and delusion

Born through body, speech, and mind

I now fully avow.

Homages (1 X call and response)

Homage to the Seven Buddhas before Buddha.

Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha.

Homage to Maitreya Buddha.

Homage to Manjusri Bodhisattva.

Homage to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

Homage to Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

Homage to the Succession of Ancestors.

Four Bodhisattva Vows (1X call and response)

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.

Refuges

ALL: I take refuge in Buddha.

Doshi: Before all beings,

Immersing body and mind

Deeply in the Way

Awakening true mind.

ALL:  I take refuge in Dharma.

Doshi:  Before all beings,

Entering deeply the merciful ocean

Of Buddha’s Way.

ALL:  I take refuge in Sangha.

Doshi:  Before all being,

Bringing harmony to everyone,

Free from hindrance.

Pure Precepts

All: I vow to refrain from all evil

Doshi:  It is the abode of the law of all Buddhas;

it is the source of the law of all Buddhas.

All:  I vow to make every effort to live in enlightenment.

Doshi:  It is the teaching of anuttara samyaksambodhi

and the path of the one who practices and that which is

practiced.

All:  I vow to live and be lived for the benefit of all beings.

Doshi:  It is transcending profane and holy and taking self

and others across.

Grave Precepts

All:  I vow not to kill

Doshi:  By not killing life the Buddha tree seed grows,

transmit the life of Buddha and do not kill.

All:  I vow not to take what is not given.

Doshi:  The self and objects are such as they are, two yet

one. The gate of liberation stands open.

All:  I vow not to misuse sexuality

Doshi:  Let the three wheels of self, object, and action be Pure.

With nothing to desire one goes along

Together with the Buddhas.

All:  I vow to refrain from false speech.

Doshi:  The Dharma Wheel turns from the beginning. There

Is neither surplus nor lack. The sweet dew

Saturates all and harvests the truth.

All:  I vow to refrain from intoxicants.

Doshi:  Originally pure, don’t defile. This is the great

Awareness.

All:  I vow not to slander.

Doshi:  In the Buddhadharma, go together, appreciate

Together, realize together, and actualize together.

Don’t permit fault finding. Don’t permit haphazard

Talk. Do not corrupt the Way.

All:  I vow not to praise self at the expense of others.

Doshi:  Buddhas and Ancestors realize the vast sky and the

Great earth. When they manifest the noble body,

there is neither inside nor outside in emptiness.

When they manifest the Dharma body there is not

Even a bit of earth on the ground.

All:  I vow not to be avaricious.

Doshi:  One phrase, one verse – that is the ten thousand

things and one hundred grasses; one Dharma, one

realization – is all Buddhas and Ancestors.

Therefor, from the beginning, there has been no

stinginess at all.

All:  I vow not to harbor ill will.

Doshi:  Not negative, not positive, neither real nor unreal,

there is an ocean of illuminated clouds and an

ocean of bright clouds.

All:  I vow not to abuse the Three Treasures.

Doshi:  To expound the Dharma with this body is foremost.

The virtue returns to the ocean of reality. It is

unfathomable; we just accept it with respect and

gratitude.

Dedication

Doshi:  Thus on this Full Moon morning (night) we offer the

Merit of the Bodhisattva Way through all world

Systems to the unborn nature of all beings.

All:  All Buddhas, Ten Directions,Three Times.

All Beings, Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas.

Wisdom Beyond Wisdom, Maha Prajna Paramita.

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