Dharma Tea at Two pm Eastern for February 8, 2022. Special Guest E. Ethelbert Miller

Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for February 8, 2022. Use this link to join.  If asked use this password 784873

E. Ethelbert Miller will join ABZS for a remembrance and talk about his interview with Buddhist Author and Teacher Charles Johnson.  You can read the interview by going to this link.  

E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist. He is the author of two memoirs and several books of poetry. For 17 years Miller served as the editor of Poet Lore, the oldest poetry magazine published in the United States. He hosts the WPFW morning radio show On the Margin with E. Ethelbert Miller and hosts and produces The Scholars on UDC-TV which received a 2020 Telly Award. Miller’s memoir Fathering Words: The Making of An African American Writer (St. Martin’s Press, 2000) was selected by the DC WE READ for its one book, one city program sponsored by the D.C. Public Libraries. He was also awarded the 2019 Literary Award for poetry by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for his book If God Invented Baseball. Most recently, Miller received a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a congressional award from Congressman Jamie Raskin in recognition of his literary activism. Miller’s latest book is When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories (City Point Press, 2021).

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    February 18th- 6:30am Zazen and Service In person and online

    February 19th – 7pm Zazen and Monthly Wellbeing Service. In person and online

    February 20th- 6:30am Zazen and Service In person and online

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    February 23th- 6:30am Zazen and Service In person and online

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    Dharma Tea on Tuesdays for February 17, 2026 2pm Eastern

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    Today – Tuesday, February 17, 2026 2:00 – 2:45pm:

    Dharma Tea on Tuesdays led by Rev. Seido David Sarpal on the topic “The Citrus Experience: A Visit to the Todolí Foundation” – online only 

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    February 13th- 6:30am Zazen and Service In person and online

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    Meet up at Farragut Park NW

    Photo by Kim Downes

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  • All Beings Schedule for 2/11-2/16, 2026

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    February 11th – 6:30am Zazen and Service (in person and online)

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    ABZS people can also join our walk at Farragut North Metro Station at 11:00am

    Contact Seido 240 277-6880 to coordinate the meetup  (in person only)

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    ABZS people can also join our walk at Farragut North Metro Station at 11:00am

    Contact Seido 240 277-6880 to coordinate the meetup  (in person only)

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  • Evening Practice for January 8, 2026 7pm Eastern

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    Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 899367

    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

    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

    Pass the feather

    Refuges in Pali