Bodhisattva’s at work. On Sunday October 4th, 2020 these ABZS members were photographed as they finished planting a native Spice Bush along Adams Mill Road NW (near our urban zendo).
Friday Morning Practice for October 9th, 2020 6:30am
Sangha member Daii Brian Hires will offer a Way Seeking Mind Talk this morning following a short period of zazen.
Evening Practice for October 8, 2020 7pm
Tonight we will have one period of Zazen followed by a “Way Seeking Mind” Talk by ABZS Fall Ango Shuso Shōryū Chris Leader.
Thursday Evening October 1, 2020 Practice 7pm
Join the sangha tonight for one period of zazen followed by the Shuso Entering Ceremony and closing with our monthly pass the feather sangha check-in opportunity. Join us by using this link
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Order of Service
Welcome by the Kokyo
30 Minute zazen
Explanation by the Ino of the Shuso Entering Ceremony
Heart Sutra in Japanese
Shuso Entering Ceremony
Pass the Feather Sangha Sharing
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(Heart Sutra in Japanese can be found on this web site under the “Frequently Used Chants” tab.
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
Announcing the Fall Ango – 2020 Practice Period for All Beings Zen Sangha
“JUST ENOUGH”
Friends,
Today, we begin our annual Fall Ango (安居, “peaceful dwelling”). This 90-day practice period offers us the chance to engage deeply with zazen and our four great vows, moving through the world with compassion and beginner’s mind. Our theme for this year’s Fall Ango will be “Just Enough.” I think this is an apt expression of the Buddha’s teaching of the Middle Way–not getting swept away by greed, not giving in to aversion. Not too much, not too little. Just enough. It’s also a good way to think of the attitude we bring to our practice and to everyday life. When we sit, just to sit is enough. When we work, just to work is enough. While we live, just to live is enough.
I look forward to exploring this theme with you all, especially in these difficult times. One important way we can practice “just enough” is through our relationship to food–especially these days, when many of us are spending most of our time and preparing and eating most of our meals at home. So this year, we will be scheduling Zoom cooking classes to learn how to make some traditional zendo dishes, oryoki demonstrations, and talks on sustainability and limiting food waste. We will also be reading and hosting dharma study on Shohaku Okumura’s Living By Vow, an excellent book about the meaning of our most common chants–including the meal chant! We hope these events focused around the kitchen and hearth will help you feel connected to the sangha while we wait for the right time to return to the zendo.
And as we do every year, we will be scheduling Way Seeking Mind talks for sangha members to tell their stories and discuss their practice. Our Shuso, the head student for the practice period, will be Shōryū Chris Leader. The Shuso and his Benji (Shuso’s assistant) will be arranging the Way Seeking Mind talks as well as scheduling for Sangha members to enjoy tea with the Shuso. Please contact the Benji, Alex Langlinais, at alexlanglinais@gmail.com to schedule your WSM talk or for sharing tea with the Shuso.
Our Practice Period Leader, Inryū Sensei will be available for Dokusan (one to one discussions) with individuals throughout the Ango. Please contact Inryū directly at inryu@allbeingszen.org to make an appointment.
You are welcomed and encouraged to join us for any and all of the events listed below! Please stay tuned for email updates to the 2020 Fall Ango schedule, as well as updates to the All Beings Zen Sangha website (www.allbeingszen.org).
FALL ANGO 2020 SCHEDULE
Weekly Schedule
Monday Wednesday, Friday: Morning Zazen at 6:30 AM EST (+ Way-Seeking Mind Talks)
Thursday: Evening Service at 7:00 PM EST
- Tea with the Shuso by appointment on dates TBA
Fall Ango Events
Thursday, September 24: Thursday Evening Service — Fall Ango Begins!
Saturday, September 26: Outdoor Jukai at Woodburn Hill Farm
Thursday, October 1: Shuso Entering Ceremony via Zoom
Saturday, October 10: Half-Day Zazenkai
Sunday, October 18: Full-Day Event at Woodburn Hill Farm
Saturday, November 7: Full-Day Zazenkai
Monday, November 30 – Sunday, December 6: Rohatsu Sesshin
Tuesday, December 8: Rohatsu*
Thursday, December 19: Shuso Hossen
Dates TBD:
- Cooking Classes
- Dharma Study, Living By Vow by Shohaku Okumura
- Movie Night
- Oryoki Presentation(s)
- Talk(s) on No Waste/Conservation by Susan Cho
- Talk(s) on Sitting with Pain, Hospice, Death and Dying
- Talk(s) on Home Altars and Home Liturgy
– By the ABZS Benji Alex Langlinais
Photo by Vero Balderas-Iglesias
Book Discussion of David Chadwick’s “Crooked Cucumber”; The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
September 19th, 2020 – 12noon. Bring your lunch, or a cup of tea to enjoy while we discuss the Biography of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. David Chadwick the author of the book will be our All Beings Zen Sangha special guest.
Dharma Study Group reading and discussion the “Crooked Cucumber”. Join us in the cloud zendo by using this link.
Outdoor Jukai on July 18, 2020
Inryū Sensei offering the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts to Naomi Knoble (Kōryū Bendōwa Bright Dragon, Make Clear, Way, Harmonius) in our first All Beings Zen Sangha “outdoor” formal ceremony. Gratitude to our hosts; Becky and Evan allowing us to use the fields below their Greenbridge Pottery. It was a lovely evening and delightful to be encircled by Evan’s planting of the three sisters (corn, beans and squash) and cheerful sunflowers. Given the ongoing concerns about Covid-19 there were very limited invitees and everyone wore masks and kept physical distance.
ABZS June 5th, 2020 Joining the Black Lives Matter March to 1600 Penn Ave NW
Workshop on Saturday June 6th, 2020 10:30am
To join the workshop at 10:30 use this link.
June 6th – “Sexuality in the time of Covid-19” a workshop taught by Rev. Daigan Gather of Den of Vow Temple in San Francisco, CA 10:30am- noon.
Rev. Daigan Gaither began Buddhist practice in 1995 in the Vipassana (Insight) tradition, and then began to study Zen in 2003 with Ryushin Paul Haller Roshi. He received Lay Ordination in 2006 where he was given the name Daigan or “Great Vow”, and received Priest Ordination in July 2011. Daigan speaks internationally on a variety of topics particularly around gender, sexuality, social justice and their intersections with the Dharma. You can find out more via his podcast at patreon.com/stumpthemonk (free versions are available) or at his website queerdharma.net He identifies as a disabled, queer, white, cis male and uses he/him pronouns.
