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Saturday December 21 Winter Solstice Event 7pm Eastern. To join use this link. If asked for a password use 124425.

Photo by Zen’etsu

Join the members of the All Beings Zen Sangha to greet the Solstice and the New Year with chanting 108 times the Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo. Each recitation will include the big bell and some members offering full prostrations. All are welcome.

Happy Solstice to planet Earth and all its residents. For the next half year, daylight gets longer north of the Equator and shorter south of the Equator. Confirming that yes, contrary to what many people think, days get **longer** in the Winter and **shorter** in the Summer.

To join us via zoom 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

Robe Chant

40 minute period of Zazen

Four Great Vows

Short Morning Service

Morning greetings

Thursday November 21, 2024 – Shuso offers talk on the Sandokai

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 Diffference and Equality

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

Our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)

Refuges in Pali

Saturday December 14, 2024 11am – Shuso Hossen Ceremony. ABZS 2024 Fall Shuso (head student) Seiryū Paula Chiplis receives the assemble sangha’s questions in a traditional formal ceremony marking the end of their term in the Shuso position. In person and online

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 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

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Heart Sutra in Spanish

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

25 Minute Zazen Period

Four Great Vows

Refuges in Pali

To join use this link

If asked for a password use 149227

6:30 – 7:10 Zazen
7:10- 8:00 Morning Service
8:00-9:30 Breakfast Morning Break
9:30- 10:30 Morning Walk or indoor exercise/Monday will be room assignments and stashing gear
10:30 – 11:00 Dharma Talk
11:00-11:30 Zazen
11:30-11:40 Kinhin
11:40- 12:15 Zazen
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:30 Outdoor Kinhin/or Dharma Study
1:30-2:30 WorkPractice
2:30- 3:00 Explaination of Shosan Ceremony
3:00-3:10 Kinhin
3:10 -3: 40 Zazen
3:40 — 3:50 Kinhin
3:50-4:20 Zazen
4:20 – Shonsan Ceremony/Photographs/ Refuges/ End of Sesshin
Open
6:30 informal potluck/Sesshin leftovers in 412



6:30 – 7:10 Zazen

7:10- 8:00  Morning Service

8:00-9:30 Breakfast Morning Break

9:30- 10:30 Morning Walk or indoor exercise/Monday will be room assignments and stashing gear

10:30 – 11:00 Dharma Talk

11:00-11:30 Zazen

11:30-11:40 Kinhin

11:40- 12:15 Zazen

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:15-1:45 Outdoor Kinhin/or Dharma Study

1:45-2:00 Break

2:00-2:30 Work Practice

2:30-3:15 Tea with Discussion

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30- 3:45 Kinhin

3:45-4:15 Zazen

4:15-4:25 Kinhin

4:25-4:55 Zazen

4:55 – 5:00 Service/Sunday close of Rohatsu Ceremonies

5:00 – 6:30 Dinner Evening Break

6:30 – 7:00 Zazen

7:00 – 7: 10 Evening Service

7:10-7:40 Zazen

7:40-7:45 Kinhin

7:45-8:15 Zazen

8:15 Refuges

To join use this link

If asked for a password use 149227

To join us via zoom use this link. 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

Robe Chant

40 minute period of Zazen

Four Great Vows

Short Morning Service to include the Sandokai in English

Morning greetings

To join us via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 790875

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

Robe Chant

40 minute period of Zazen

Four Great Vows

Short Morning Service

Morning greetings