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!
Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 463913
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 Morning Practice
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Greetings
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050
Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between) and then our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony. 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
Greeting by the Kokyo
Evening Bell Chant
Harmony of Difference and Equality
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony
Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)
Here is the Statement
SZBA Statement in Support of Compassion
Zen holds as a foundational truth that all beings are Buddha Nature; that we are interdependent and the suffering of one is suffering that affects us all. Viewing the world as a boundless and all-encompassing circle of connection, we realize that no one can be left out or left behind.
We, the members of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association, reject any attempt to oppress marginalized groups and treat them as outsiders who do not deserve the same rights, opportunities and respect as those in power.
We are diverse in many ways–sex, gender expression, race, ability, religion–and this is our greatest strength, a strength that should be celebrated. Marginalization, oppression, and rejection are the antithesis of Zen practice, and we oppose any attempts to make such behaviors law or national policy. We oppose the creation of a culture that deliberately normalizes marginalization, isolation or oppression of any group. We call for compassionate treatment of those who are marginalized and living in fear.
We must have compassion for all, and we must remember that compassion is wisdom in action, and compassion must never lead to apathy or passive acceptance. Therefore, we encourage opposition, not based in anger or fear or hatred but arising from our bodhisattva vows. We encourage everyone to bear witness to the cries of the world. We encourage people to march, write letters, and support organizations working to protect suffering beings. We support those who are in danger by building safe spaces or insisting that public institutions create those spaces and we encourage others to do the same. We offer emotional support and a calming presence to those who are in despair. And we offer the practice of Zen to all people as a way to cope with the world as it is.
Tuesday February 18th, 2025 – Tuesday Tea at 2pm – Dharma Tea led by Zen’etsu Clay on “Baikaryu Eisanka (Plum Blossom Style Hymns)”. Online Only Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050
Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between). We will conclude with a Full Moon Ceremony. 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)
Greeting by the Kokyo
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Annoucements and introductions
Monday February 10th, 2025 6-7:30pm – ABZS Book Club – Online only. 2 books this month! Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 228250
We will talk again about Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s, “In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying” — as well as Duncan Ryuken Williams’, “American Sutra”
Watch a clip from our ‘Recordings from Other ABZ Talks’ tab on our website, where you will find a video of Duncan Ryuken Williams’ presentation to our Sangha on this book in August 2021: https://allbeingszen.org/media/Video/Guest_Talks/GuestSpeaker-DuncanRyukenWilliams-AmericanSutra-Video.mp4
February 8th, 2025 2pm Dharma Tea led by Junji Sun on their “Experience at Nui Ba Den, Vietnam’s mountaintop temple”. Seven attendees enjoyed seeing photos and hearing about Junji’s experiences visiting the Nui Ba Den Buddhist Complex in Vietnam, the city of Bangkok and an Animal Sanctuary in Thailand.
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050
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 have our monthly pass the feather sharing and 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)
Greeting by the Kokyo
The Harmony of Difference and Sameness
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Pass the feather
Friday January 24th, 2025 – Dharma Movie Night. 5 members of the Sangha enjoyed watching the Buddhist Classic “Groundhog Day” in the Urban Zendo. We shared popcorn, chocolates and had a fun and informative discussion following the viewing.
Photo from RG Steinman
On Saturday the we scheduled a visit to the NMAI National Museum of the American Indian
in Washington DC to experience and practice with “Sublime Light” tapestries of Diné artist DY Begay. Seido and Inryū enjoyed revisiting this retrospective of the amazing life and work of DY Begay and sitting zazen in the midst of the art. The exhibit is indeed sublime and beautifully curated by Cécile R. Ganteaume. On display until July 13, 2025. Go see it? Museum entry is free. Photos from our time there.
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050
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 have our monthly pass the feather sharing and 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)
Greeting by the Kokyo
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period