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!
Saturday October 19, 2024 11am – Special Guest Speaker David Chadwick – David Chadwick, is author of “Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki” and Poobah of Cuke Archives which includes cuke.com, shunryusuzuki.com, Cuke Archives Daily Blog, and more. David Talks with the members of All Beings Zen Sangha about Shunryu Suzuki Roshi’s lectures on the Sandokai (Harmony of Difference and Equality) and other important history of the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center during that era. Here is a recording of the event (audio only).
Tuesday October 15, 2024 2-2:45pm – Tuesday Tea at Two – Rev. Seido David Sarpal to offer a tea regarding Zen and Nature. . Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787 – Online only
Tuesday October 8, 2024 2-2:45pm – Tuesday Tea at Two – Inryū Sensei will lead a conversation about Zen Practice as the season changes. Please join with your questions or insights for this conversation. As always we will begin with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking together and close with the Four Great Vows. Online only. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:00-2:45 Tuesday Dharma Tea – Zen’etsu Clay Crowell will lead a Tuesday Tea discussion on the background and context of the Sandokai. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787
Monday Sept 30, 2024 6-7pm Dharma Book Club online only. “The Sound of a Snail Eating” by Elizabeth Tova Bailey. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 572905
Tonight we will have a short service followed by two periods of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between). 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 (text available at highlighted links)
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 our monthly Wellbeing Service and the chanting of the refuges. Greetings and announcements
If you are asked for a password please use this 522050
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.
Please feel welcome to join a short period of Zazen beginning at 2pm followed by our Fall Practice Period Shuso Entering Ceremony. Our Shuso candidate for the Fall Ango (period of peaceful dwelling) is Seiryů Paula Chiplis.
Please offer your good wishes for her entering into this role of support to the ABZ Sangha.
