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!
Members of the All Beings Zen Sangha at a ceremony to install a Japanese Temple Bell in the Japanese Pavilion of the U.S. National Arboretum on January 1, 2024.
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 955165
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
Four Great Vows
Dharma Talk by Inryū Sensei
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,
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 “Way Seeking Mind” Talk by Kinki ShinSei (Joyful Spirit Deep Vow) Ilaria Tassi and end with the chanting of the refuges. If you would like stay after refuges and do a welcome and check-in please do
If you are asked for a password please use this 955165
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 Chinese
25 minute period of zazen
Four Great Vows
Way Seeking Mind Talk by Ilaria Tassi
Refuges in Pali
Post service check in (please feel welcome to stay or depart as your schedule requires)
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 February 6, 2024 2p Dharma Tea at Two – led by Beata Stylanios on the topic of “Widows and widowers in our midst and the gift of flowers” online only
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 January 30, 20242pDharma Tea at Two – Ryokan: Great Fool (良寛大愚)- Led by Marcella Wolfe. 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.
Tuesday January 23, 2024 2PM-2:45PM – Dharma Tea at 2pm led by Emyo Grace Mcclain on “Residential Life at Zenshinji” aka Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. 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. Emyo Grace
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.
NOTE morning activities canceled due to icy road and sidewalk conditions. Zen Sewing will take place later in the day as the travel conditions improve. Please plan to meet in the library at 1860 Clydesdale Place unit 405 at 1:30pm
Inryū Sensei will offer two poems to explore our feelings about the wars which are currently happening. Please come for a supportive sharing and deep listening experience.
Photo courtesy of the National Bell Foundation (taken at the dedication of a 18th century Honshō bell gifted to the U.S. National Arboretum on 1/1/24)
Emyo Grace