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!
Tuesday November 26, 2024 2-2:45pm – Tuesday Tea at Two – Esho Beth Milligan will present a talk and discussion on “Zen Master Ekaku Haquin: Art for the People!” Online only Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787
Painting and calligraphy by Hakuin Ekaku.
Monday November 25, 2024 6:30am – EiShin Mike Barreda will offer Way Seeking Mind Talk following a brief period of zazen. To join online use this link. If asked for a password use 149227
Saturday November 23, 2024 3pm – Talk by Rev Jiko Nakade on Daifukuji temple. Use this link to sign in. If asked for a password use 272989
Born in Ohio and raised in Kona, the Rev. Jiko Nakade has been the 12th resident minister and first woman minister of the Daifukuji Soto Mission since 2004. She is a graduate of the Departments of Religion and Japanese Language at the University of Hawaii and studied at Komazawa University in Tokyo. She is the student of the Reverend Ryuji Tamiya of Niigata, Japan and a graduate of the Hawaii Soto Shu Ministers Training Program. She grew up attending Daifukuji. Her grandparents along with their 11 children ran the Oshima family grocery store located a few miles from the temple. Later, her father, his 4 brothers and their spouses operated the business. At age 19 years she spent 2 months at the Aichi Senmon Nisodo monastery of Aoyama Roshi.
Daifukuji Soto Mission (Temple of Great Happiness) est. 1914 in Kealakekua, Hi
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
40 minute period of Zazen
Short Morning Service to include the Sandokai in English
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 have a talk by the Fall 2024 Head Student Seiryū Paula Chiplis. 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
Evening Bell Chant
Harmony of Diffference and Equality
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Dharma Talk by the Fall 2024 Shuso
We do not have a presenter for Dharma Tea at 2pm today. Please consider joining us tomorrow morning for a Way Seeking Mind Talk by Jim Conaway.
This past Saturday, All Beings Zen Sangha came together for a full-day Zazenkai. Pictured below is a glimpse of the intimacy within oryoki — which is the formal, ritualized Zen practice of mindful eating. We invite you to consider joining us for our upcoming week-long retreat in December, Rohatsu Sesshin, a time to dive deeply into practice that is in alignment with the anniversary of Buddha’s enlightenment.
Monday November 18, 2024 6:30am – Way Seeking Mind Talk following a brief period of zazen – David Simon will give a WSM talk. Use this link to sign in. If asked for a password use 149227
All Beings Zen Sangha Zen Meditation Retreat Schedule 8:30am-4:30pm
To join via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 637783
8:30 Welcome and orientation (led by Inryū)
8:40 Explanation of the Jundo
8:45 Jundo and Incense offering
8:50 Robe Chant (lead by Kokyo) followed by 40 minute period of Zazen
9:30 10 minute period of Kinhin (slow walking meditation)
9:40 30 minute period of Zazen
10:10 10 minute period of Kinhin
10:20 30 minute period of Zazen
10:50 10 minute period of Kinhin
11:00 30 minute perio dof Zazen
11:30 Sandokai and the Full Moon Service
12:05pm Lunch –Formal Oryoki
1:00pm Lunch clean up/break
1:20pm Outdoor walk (weather permiting) or Dharma study
2:15 Tea and Cookies/Dharma Discussion led by Inryū
3:10pm Kinhin (slow walking meditation)
3:20pm 30 minute period of Zazen
3:50pm 10 minutes of Kinhin
4:00pm 30 minute period of Zazen
4:30pm Chanting of the Refuges/photo/closing of Zazenkai
Friday November 15, 2024 6:30am – Way Seeking Mind Talk following a brief period of zazen – Binji Mukherjee will give a WSM talk. To join use this link. If asked for a password use 463913
