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!
Dharma Tea lead by Sangha member Alex Langlinais on the topic of “Our experience of the world is built by our minds”.
Use this link to join us in our cloud zendo today. If asked for a password use 512621.
Here is an article that Alex offers as interesting reading on the topic.
First 5 minutes silent tea drinking followed by presentation by Alex and discussion. We conclude at 2:45pm EDT
Join All Beings Zen Sangha for a day of Zazen. We will have a few people in the urban zendo and others joining via the cloud zendo.
Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 189611
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.
8am Robe Chant & and start of Zazen
8:30 Service
8:40am Soji (Temple Cleaning)
9:15 Zazen
9:45 Kinhin (slow walking)
10:25 Outside Kinhin (faster pace and litter clean up)
11:00 Indoor Kinhin (slow walking)
11:10 Dharma Talk
12 – 1 Lunch Break
1:00 Zazen
1:30 Kinhin
1:40 Zazen
2:10 Kinhin
2:20 Zazen
2:50 Closing & Chanting of Refuges
Order of Service
Robe Chant before zazen.
Forty minute period of zazen
After zazen: Four Great Vows
Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom
Heart Sutra in English
Shosaimyo Kichijo Dharani (Dharani for avoiding calamity) chanted 3 times
If your schedule allows please stay on the zoom call to do a brief check-in after the service is concluded.
ROBE CHANT
DAI SAI GE DA PU KU
MUSO FUKU DEN E
HI BU NYORAI KYO
KO DO SHOSHU JO
Great robe of liberation
Field far beyond form and emptiness
Wearing the Tathagata’s teaching
Saving all beings.
After Zazen
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.
After Koan reading
Dharana for avoiding calamity
Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom
Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom, the lovely, the holy.
The Perfection of Wisdom gives light. Unstained, the entire
world cannot stain her. She is the source of light, and from
everyone in the triple world she removes darkness.
Most excellent are her works. She brings light so that all
fear and distress may be forsaken, and disperses the gloom
and darkness of delusion. She herself is an organ of vision.
She has a clear knowledge of the own-being of all dharmas,
for she does not stray away from it. The Perfection of Wisdom
of the Buddhas sets in motion the Wheel of Dharma.
Heart of Great Perfect Wisdom Sutra
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva,
when deeply practicing prajña paramita,⨀
clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty
and thus relieved all suffering.
Shariputra,
form does not differ from emptiness,
emptiness does not differ from form.
Form itself is emptiness,
emptiness itself form.
Sensations, perceptions, formations,
and consciousness are also like this.
Shariputra,
all dharmas are marked by emptiness;
they neither arise nor cease,
are neither defiled nor pure,
neither increase nor decrease.
Therefore, given emptiness, there is
no form, no sensation, no perception,
no formation no consciousness;
no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind;
no sight, no sound, no smell, no taste,
no touch, no object of mind;
no realm of sight… no realm of mind consciousness
There is neither ignorance nor extinction of ignorance…
neither old age and death,
nor extinction of old age and death;
no suffering, no cause, no cessation, no path;
no knowledge and no attainment.
With nothing to attain,
a bodhisattva relies on prajña paramita,⨀
and thus the mind is without hindrance.
Without hindrance, there is no fear.
Far beyond all inverted views, one realizes nirvana.
All buddhas of past, present, and future
rely on prajña paramita ⨀ and thereby attain
unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment.
Therefore, know the prajña paramita ⨀ as
the great miraculous mantra,
the great bright mantra,
the supreme mantra,
the incomparable mantra,
which removes all suffering
and is true, not false.
Therefore we proclaim the prajña paramita ⨀ mantra,
the mantra that says:
“Gate Gate ⨀ Paragate ⨀ Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.” ∅
Shosaimyo Kichijo Dharani
(Auspicious Dharani or Spell For Averting Calamity)
NO MO SAN MAN DA
MOTO NAN
OHA RA CHI KOTO SHA
SONO NAN TO JI TO
EN GYA GYA
GYA KI GYA KI
UN NUN SHIFU RA SHIFU RA
HARA SHIFU RA HARA SHIFU RA
CHISHU SA CHISHU SA
CHISHU RI CHISHU RI
SOHA JA SOHA JA
SEN CHI GYA
SHIRI EI SO MO KO
All Buddhas
All Buddhas, ten directions,
Three times
All Honored Ones, Bodhisattvas-Mahasattvas
Wisdom beyond wisdom
Maha Prajna Paramita
Dharma Tea on Tuesday at Two pm EDT July 20th, 2021. Join All Beings Zen Sangha for 45 minutes. Todays discuss the topic is “Working with ones hands as a contemplative practice”. This tea will be lead by the ABZS guiding teacher Sensei Inryū Poncé-Barger. For the first 5 minutes we can enjoy silent tea drinking together. All are welcome! Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 512621
Dharma Tea on Tuesday at Two pm EDT July 13th, 2021. Join All Beings Zen Sangha for 45 minutes for todays discuss the topic of “Intention”. We will be lead by our board ABZS President and former (2018) Shuso Shinren (Careful Practice) Mark Stone. First 5 minutes are silent tea drinking together. All are welcome! Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 512621
All Beings Zen Sangha Dharma Book study for summer 2021 “American Sutra” by Duncan Ryukan Williams. This is our second meeting to discuss this historical text focusing on the incarceration of Buddhist Americans of Japanese Ancestry who were rounded up and sent to detention camps during the early years of WWII. A fascinating account using: interviews from survivors, dairies, government documents and media accounts of that time, Rev. Williams creates a rich delve into the religious bias and racism that plagued the US 80 years ago. This book is an encouraging account of how people found ways to continue to take refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha while far away from home in uncomfortable and uncertain conditions of incarceration.
With the backdrop of “camps” housing unaccompanied undocumented minors along our southern border currently and the undefined terms of incarceration for men housed at the US Guantanamo Naval Base on the island of Cuba the text is a timely reminder for those of us who vow to “save all beings” to keep our hearts open and minds awake to the realities we face and responsibilities we share.
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We will resume our regular All Beings Zen Sangha schedule on Tuesday July 6th, 2021 with the 2pm Dharma Tea. Inryū Sensei will lead the tea using the topic of “Freedom – what is it? What is it good for”? First 5 minutes are silent tea drinking together. All are welcome! Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 012494
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Photography by Yosan
Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM on Thursday for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program. Tonight we will have a period of zazen followed by a Talk by our Ino (head of the zendo) Seido David Sarpal. We will close by chanting the Refuges.
If you are asked for a password please use this 118879
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 in Spanish and English
30 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Talk offered by Ino Seido David Sarpal on the topic of “Eight things I’ve learned during Covid”
Refuges in Pali
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.
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
Photo taken by Sensei Inryū