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July 9-14 2024 All Beings Zen Sangha at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

Monday, July 1, 2024 7pm-8pm. Planning meeting for NEW Dharma Book Club –

Starting this summer interested membersof the All Beings Zen Sangha are warmly welcome to join sangha member Shoku Doshin in a new dharma book club. If you are interested please reach out to Shoku (Cristina) on email at cristinamariabenavides@gmail.com.

Our objective is to provide a semi-casual space for Dharma book discussion. We will focus on books or essays written for lay audiences, mostly focusing on books with an explicit Buddhist perspective but with an openness to non-Buddhist books with nonetheless rich themes for exploration — the dharma is everywhere! 

The current thinking is to meet monthly online, in coordination with Inryǔ Sensei as there may be months where the sangha has a different dharma study focus for Ango or through our library and vast Branching Streams network. 
If you are interested please reach out to Shoku (Cristina) on email at cristinamariabenavides@gmail.com.

We are asking for as many participants as are interested and also a few volunteers to help ensure the book club continues steadily if other parts of life require the attention the organizers.

Let’s gather on zoom on Monday July 1st at 7pm to decide upon guidelines for participation and to select books for August and September. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 606657

Members of All Beings Zen Sangha join MRFS Naomi Knoble for her first potter show hosted by Greenbridge Pottery in Maryland.

Tuesday  – Dharma Tea  –  June 11th, 2024  2:-2:45pm Eastern – Dharma Tea with Sensei Inryū. During this Dharma tea Sensei Inryū will  share photographs from her April 2024 visit to Suzuki Roshi’s home Temple, Rinso-in which is in the mountains above Yaizu Japan.  Online only.

Inryū Sensei offering incense at Shunryū Suzuki Roshi’s grave near Rinso-in Temple, Japan on April 24, 2024

to join use this link.  If asked for a password  use 712120.  You can also go to www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in.

For the All Beings Zen Sangha Tuesday Teas at Two, a topic is introduced and then a few questions are proposed for discussion by those present. The Teas are online only.

We start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking.The dharma tea concludes at 2:45pm Eastern. All are welcome.

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 a short service before one period of Zazen. We will then have a Dharma Inryū Sensei or Guiding Teacher and end with the chanting of the refuges.  

If you are asked for a password please use this  806719

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 in Japanese (7 times)

Heart Sutra in English

25 minute period of zazen

5 minutes of kinhin

Talk by Rev. Seidō David Sarpal

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

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.” ∅

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

Tuesday  – Dharma Tea on Tuesday 2-2:45pm Eastern – for May 28, 2024.  2:-2:45pm Eastern – Dharma Tea with Sensei Inryū. During this Dharma tea Sensei Inryū will  share photographs from her April visit to Sojiji Temple in Yokohama, Japan

Photo by Zen-etsu Clay

to join use this link.  If asked for a password  use 712120.  You can also go to www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in.

For the All Beings Zen Sangha Tuesday Teas at Two, a topic is introduced and then a few questions are proposed for discussion by those present. The Teas are online only.

We start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking.The dharma tea concludes at 2:45pm Eastern. All are welcome.

Tuesday  – Dharma Tea on Tuesday 2-2:45pm Eastern – Dharma Tea with Sensei Inryū. Inryū will offer a tea to share some photographs and stories from her April visit to Eihei-ji Temple. All are welcome.

to join use this link.  If asked for a password  use 712120.  You can also go to www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in.

For the All Beings Zen Sangha Tuesday Teas at Two, a topic is introduced and then a few questions are proposed for discussion by those present. The Teas are online only.

We start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking. 

The dharma tea concludes at 2:45pm Eastern.

Tuesday  – Dharma Tea on Tuesday 2-2:45pm Eastern – for May 14, 2024.  Led by Seiryū Paula Chiplis this Tea will focus on the Soto Zen practice of Baika (hymns).  Seiryū assisted by Zen’etsu Clay Crowell will share their enthusiasm for this form of Dharma practice and some basics that can be used this spring/summer at various All Beings Zen Sangha events.  

to join use this link.  If asked for a password  use 712120.  You can also go to www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in.

For the All Beings Zen Sangha Tuesday Teas at Two, a topic is introduced and then a few questions are proposed for discussion by those present. The Teas are online only.

We start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking. 

The dharma tea concludes at 2:45pm Eastern. All are welcome.

Join us in May when we resume our Dharma Teas at 2pm on Tuesdays. Inryū Sensei will be away most of the rest of April to visit significant temples in our Soto Zen Lineage. Join us at n May when she will share photographs and stories from the pilgrimage

Tuesday April 2, 2024 2PM-2:45PM – Dharma Tea at 2pm led by Zen’etsu Clay Crowell who will offer an Introduction to ‘Shinrin-Yoku / Forest Bathing’ – online only

to join use this link.  If asked for a password  use 386593.  You can also go to www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in.

For the All Beings Zen Sangha Tuesday Teas at Two, a topic is introduced and then a few questions are proposed for discussion by those present. The Teas are online only.

We start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking. 

The dharma tea concludes at 2:45pm Eastern. All are welcome.