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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 followed by two periods of  Zazen.  We will close my chanting the Refuges.

If you are asked for a password please use this  118879

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 English

All Buddhas Chant

30 Minute Zazen Period

5 minute Kinhin (slow walking) or stretch

30 Minute Zazen Period

Four Great Vows

Refuges in Pali

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.

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,,

the mantra that says:

“Gate Gate ⨀ Paragate ⨀ Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.” ∅

All Buddhas

All Buddhas, ten directions, Three times

All Honored Ones, Bodhisattvas-Mahasattvas

Wisdom beyond wisdom

Maha Prajna Paramita

Refuges in Pali (Call and Response)

Accapella, inflections as follows:

➞Buddham Saranam Ga➚cha➘mi➞iii

BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

Tuesday August 24, 2021 2pm EDT Dharma Tea and Discussion

–   This tea will be lead by our Guiding Teacher Inryū Poncé-Barger on the topic of “Music that moves you to go more deeply into practice” .  Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 512621

2:00- 2:45pm

First 5 minutes are for silent tea drinking

Tuesday August 17, 2021 2pm EDT Dharma Tea and Discussion

 –   This tea will be lead by our All Beings Zen Sangha most recent former Shuso Tendo Shōryū Chris Leader on the topic of “Flow”    .  Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 512621

2:00- 2:45pm

Saturday Aug 14th, 2021 2pm EDT   “American Sutra” author Duncan Ryūken Williams  visits  All Beings Zen Sangha via zoom to discuss his book.  Please use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 902076

Duncan Ryuken Williams was born in Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father. After growing up in Japan and England until age 17, he moved to the U.S. to attend college (Reed College) and graduate school (Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in Religion). Williams is currently Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages & Cultures and the Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture and former Chair of USC’s School of Religion. Previously, he held the Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair of Japanese Buddhism at UC Berkeley and served as the Director of Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies for four years. He has also been ordained since 1993 as a Buddhist priest in the Soto Zen tradition and served as the Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University from 1994-96.

He is the author of The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan (Princeton University Press, 2005) and editor of seven volumes including Hapa Japan (Kaya Press, 2017), Issei Buddhism in the Americas (U-Illinois Press, 2010), American Buddhism (Routledge, 1998), and Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard University Press, 1997). He has also translated four books from Japanese into English including Putting Buddhism to Work: A New Theory of Economics and Business Management (Kodansha, 1997).

His latest book is American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2019), which got up to #3 on the LA Times Bestseller List for Nonfiction. He has previously received research grants from the American Academy of Religion, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Numata Foundation/Society for the Promotion of Buddhism. In 2011, Williams received a commendation from the Japanese government for deepening the mutual understanding between the peoples of Japan and California.

Dharma Tea lead by Sangha member Inryū Sensei on the topic of ““How has a piece of art moved you”?  Many of us have experienced a opening or awakening when viewing a piece of art.  Please bring an image and
story of the artwork and its impact on you to share with those assembled.”.

Use this link to join us in our cloud zendo today.  If asked for a password use 512621.

First 5 minutes silent tea drinking followed by presentation by Inryū and discussion.  We conclude at 2:45pm EDT

Dharma Tea lead by Sangha member Alex Langlinais on the topic of “Our experience of the world is built by our minds”.

Use this link to join us in our cloud zendo today.  If asked for a password use 512621.

Here is an article that Alex offers as interesting reading on the topic.

First 5 minutes silent tea drinking followed by presentation by Alex and discussion.  We conclude at 2:45pm EDT

Join All Beings Zen Sangha for a day of Zazen.  We will have a few people in the urban zendo and others joining via the cloud zendo.

Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 189611

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.

8am    Robe Chant & and start of Zazen

8:30 Service

8:40am Soji (Temple Cleaning)

9:15  Zazen

9:45  Kinhin (slow walking)

10:25  Outside Kinhin (faster pace and litter clean up)

11:00  Indoor Kinhin (slow walking)

11:10  Dharma Talk

12 – 1  Lunch Break

1:00 Zazen

1:30  Kinhin

1:40  Zazen

2:10  Kinhin

2:20 Zazen

2:50  Closing & Chanting of Refuges

 

Order of Service

Robe Chant before zazen.

Forty minute period of zazen

After zazen: Four Great Vows

Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom

Heart Sutra in English

Shosaimyo Kichijo Dharani (Dharani for avoiding calamity) chanted 3 times

If your schedule allows please stay on the zoom call to do a brief check-in after the service is concluded.

ROBE CHANT

DAI SAI GE DA PU KU

MUSO FUKU DEN E

HI BU NYORAI KYO

KO DO SHOSHU JO

Great robe of liberation

Field far beyond form and emptiness

Wearing the Tathagata’s teaching

Saving all beings.

After Zazen

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.

After Koan reading

Dharana for avoiding calamity

Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom

Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom, the lovely, the holy.

The Perfection of Wisdom gives light. Unstained, the entire

world cannot stain her. She is the source of light, and from

everyone in the triple world she removes darkness.

Most excellent are her works. She brings light so that all

fear and distress may be forsaken, and disperses the gloom

and darkness of delusion. She herself is an organ of vision.

She has a clear knowledge of the own-being of all dharmas,

for she does not stray away from it. The Perfection of Wisdom

of the Buddhas sets in motion the Wheel of Dharma.

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,

the mantra that says:

“Gate Gate ⨀ Paragate ⨀ Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.” ∅

Shosaimyo Kichijo Dharani

(Auspicious Dharani or Spell For Averting Calamity)

NO MO SAN MAN DA

MOTO NAN

OHA RA CHI KOTO SHA

SONO NAN TO JI TO

EN GYA GYA

GYA KI GYA KI

UN NUN SHIFU RA SHIFU RA

HARA SHIFU RA HARA SHIFU RA

CHISHU SA CHISHU SA

CHISHU RI CHISHU RI

SOHA JA SOHA JA

SEN CHI GYA

SHIRI EI SO MO KO

All Buddhas

All Buddhas, ten directions,

Three times

All Honored Ones, Bodhisattvas-Mahasattvas

Wisdom beyond wisdom

Maha Prajna Paramita

 

 

 

Dharma Tea on Tuesday at Two pm EDT July 20th, 2021.  Join All Beings Zen Sangha for 45 minutes.  Todays discuss the topic is “Working with ones hands as a contemplative practice”.  This tea will be lead by the ABZS guiding teacher Sensei Inryū Poncé-Barger.     For the first 5 minutes we can enjoy silent tea drinking together.   All are welcome!  Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 512621

Dharma Tea on Tuesday at Two pm EDT July 13th, 2021.  Join All Beings Zen Sangha for 45 minutes for todays discuss the topic of “Intention”.  We will be lead by our board ABZS President and former (2018) Shuso Shinren (Careful Practice) Mark Stone.      First 5 minutes are silent tea drinking together.   All are welcome!  Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 512621

All Beings Zen Sangha Dharma Book study for summer 2021   “American Sutra” by Duncan Ryukan Williams.   This is our second meeting to discuss this historical text focusing on the incarceration of Buddhist Americans of Japanese Ancestry who were rounded up and sent to detention camps during the early years of WWII.  A fascinating account using: interviews from survivors, dairies, government documents and media accounts of that time, Rev. Williams creates a rich delve into the religious bias and racism that plagued the US 80 years ago.  This book is an encouraging account of how people found ways to continue to take refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha while far away from home in uncomfortable and uncertain conditions of incarceration.

With the backdrop of “camps” housing unaccompanied undocumented minors  along our southern border currently and the undefined terms of incarceration for men housed at the US Guantanamo Naval Base on the island of Cuba the text is a timely reminder for those of us who vow to “save all beings” to keep our hearts open and minds awake to the realities we face and responsibilities we share.

Use this link.  If asked for a password use this 012494