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!
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.
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 short service with Heart Sutra in Japanese followed by one period of Zazen and a Dharma Talk by our ABZS Guiding Teacher Inryū Sensei. We will close by chanting the Refuges in Pali. 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 041285
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 Jukko Kannon Gyo
Heart Sutra in Japanese
Dedication of Merit
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 Minute Kinhin (slow walking) interval
Dharma Talk
Four Great Vows
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
Maka Hanya Haramita Shin Gyo (Heart Sutra in Japanese)
KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN HAN NYA
HA RA MI TA JI SHO KEN GO ON KAI
KU DO IS SAI KU YAKU SHA RI SHI
SHIKI FU I KU KU FU I SHIKI SHIKI
SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKI JU SO
GYO SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE SHA RI
SHI ZE SHO HO KU SO FU SHO FU
METSU FU KU FU JO FU ZO FU GEN
ZE KO KU CHU MU SHIKI MU JU SO
GYO SHIKI MU GEN NI BI ZE SHIN
NI MU SHIKI SHO KO MI SOKU HO MU
GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI MU
MU MYO YAKU MU MU MYO JIN NAI
SHI MU RO SHI YAKU MU RO SHI JIN
MU KU SHU METSU DO MU CHI YAKU
MU TOKU I MU SHO TOK KO BO DAI
SAT TA E HAN NYA HA RA MI TA
KO SHIN MU KE GE MU KE GE KO
MU U KU FU ON RI IS SAI TEN DO
MU SO KU GYO NE HAN SAN ZE SHO
BUTSU E HAN NYA HA RA MI TA
KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAM MYAKU
SAM BO DAI KO CHI HAN NYA HA
RA MI TA ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI
MYO SHU ZE MU JO SHU ZE MU TO
DO SHU NO JO IS SAI KU SHIN JITSU
FU KO KO SETSU HAN NYA HA RA
MI TA SHU SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU
GYA TE GYA TE HA RA GYA TE
HARA SO GYA TE BO DHI SOWA KA
HAN NYA SHIN GYO
The Four Great Vows
Beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma Gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
Buddha’s way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.
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 short service with Heart Sutra in Mandarin followed by one period of Zazen and a Well Being Ceremony. We will close by chanting the Refuges in Pali. 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 041285
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.
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 Wellbeing Service followed by one period of Zazen and 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 041285
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
Heart Sutra in English
30 minutes period of zazen
5 minute period of Kinhin (slow walking meditation)
Enmei X 9
Loving Kindness Meditation
Dedication of merit.
Refuges in Pali
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,
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.
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)
Today – Tuesday Dharma Tea at 2PM for August 8, 2023 led by Inryū Sensei. What to expect from a “ABZS Healing Circle”. Inryū Sensei will provide the essential outline for how the weekly “Healing Circle” is conducted on Sundays. Curious about what a “Healing Circle” is and how it can be a useful component a Zen Practice?
What you can expect. Our usual 5 minutes of silent tea drinking. Information and Poetry to discuss and 5 minutes of silence at the end of the online gathering. Online only. The Dharma Tea concludes at 2:45pm Eastern.
Tuesday Dharma Tea at 2PM for August 1, 2023 led by Zen’etsu Clay Crowell. The focus will be one of our daily chants the “Enmei”. This second tea on the subject will look at the final 5 lines of the chant.
Tuesday Dharma Tea at 2PM for July 25, 2023 led by Zen’etsu Clay Crowell on the topic of one of our daily chants the “Enmei”. This first tea will look at the first 5 lines of the chant and Zen’etsu will join us again on August 1st to look at the final 5 lines of the chant.
Dear Friends and Members of All Beings Zen Sangha,
With your support All Beings Zen Sangha continues to thrive. Recently, we completed our Spring practice period focusing on “Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook”. Activities included a book discussion and guest speaker Gesshin Claire Greenwood on being Tenzo at Zen Niso-do Temple in Japan. Other guest speakers over the past six months included Barbara Wenger, Yoku Okumura, Rehshin Bunce, and Jisan Tova Green. Our final Shuso Hossen Ceremony was well attended both in person and on zoom with prominent Senior Dharma teachers in attendance.
Our Tuesday afternoon teas have focused on a variety of themes from physical activity as meditation to artistic creation.
Seiryu Paula Chiplis on her experience of being Benji Suzanne Ernhalt on the Summer Solstice Myoshin Carlos Moura on Dogens writings on simplicity Seido David Sarpal on Zen Practice and Artistic Creation Betty Mooney on the Alexander Technique and Zen Inryu Sensei on “What to Keep” and also on “Tassajara Sangha Week”
Nine sangha members traveled to Tassajara Zen Mountain Center for Sangha week.
ABZS now offers a weekly Meditation and Recovery Healing Circle on Sundays.
ABZS Sangha members demonstrated Oryoki practice and provided a food gift for attendees at the Smithsonian Asian Art Museum Film event.
Generosity is the practice of wholehearted giving and is the first paramita, a quality of mind of a Bodhisattva. Your contributions provide a humble stipend for our guiding teacher, support our practice spaces at the urban zendo and at Woodburn Hill Farm, and cover our other operational expenses. Regular monthly contributions are particularly supportive because they provide a broad base of dependable support for the Sangha, which enables us to plan for future expenses with a clear picture of our projected revenues, increasing our financial resilience. We ask that you donate only if you feel comfortable doing so at this time, and to place your circumstances first when deciding whether to contribute.
If you have not yet had the opportunity to join us for our services, you are always welcome. Our Sangha’s schedule page contains our service schedule and details on how to participate via Zoom
Also please be aware that Dokusan, a private meeting with our resident teacher (Inryū Sensei) to discuss practice, is available upon request, as well as practice discussions with our Practice Leaders.
Please direct questions about one-time donations or becoming a monthly donor to: Shōryū Christopher Leader at treasurer@allbeingszen.org Shōryū treasurer@allbeingszen.org can also be contacted about Estate planning and any questions regarding Charitable Giving accounts, including assistance in setting one up with your brokerage, and in-kind stock donations.
