Weekly Zazen Schedule – All events in Eastern Standard Time
Monday, Wednesday, & Friday 6:30am Morning Zazen – 40 minute period of zazen followed by a short service. In person and online see www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in
Monthly Full Moon Ceremony following Monday morning practice on September 8, 2025. 6:30am Zazen 7:10am Full Moon Service. in person and online. In person and online – visit www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in.
Thursday September 4 , 2025 7- 8:15pm Evening Zazen – Short service followed by one period of zazen with an interval of kinhin (slow walking). Inryū Sensei will offer information and encouragement as we prepare to enter our Fall Practice Period. And we will have our monthly “Pass the feather” sharing. We will conclude with Chanting the Refuges in Pali. In person and online – visit www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in.
This week and beyond
September 4 and September 7 , 2025 – Zen Sewing . 10am-Noon. RSVP with Inryu
September 15-18, 2025 – Suzuki Roshi Branching Streams Conference, Loyola University’s Retreat and Ecology Center, Woodstock, IL. Inryū Sensei and 3 Sangha members are signed up to attend.
September 20, 2025 – Zen in Public Social Action and Community Care
October 23-26, 2025 – Annual U.S. Soto Zen Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. Inryū Sensei and 2 Sangha members are signed up to attend
***ABZS Affinity Groups ***
Sundays 5-6pm Healing Circle – every Sunday . Contact Shinren markstone1924@gmail.com to be sent the zoom link. Online only
Tuesdays – 1st and 3rd monthly 6-7pm Baikaryu Eisanka – Japanese Plum Blossom Style Hymns with bells. in person only – Contact Zen’etsu @ zenjoyclay@gmail.com for more information. In person only
Monthly Dharma Film Night – contact Seido @ dakusaso@gmail.com In person only.
Our Next Film
TBA
Monthly Dharma Book Club – contact Shoku @ cristinamariabenavides@gmail.com Online only
Our Next Book
Monday September 22, 2025 6pm — The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson **please note this is a fairly complex book which is why we are taking two months for it.
The Years of Rice and Salt is an Alternate History novel by writer Kim Stanley Robinson. The story spans hundreds of years, from the army of the Muslim conqueror Timur to the 21st century. The novel depicts world history in an alternate timeline where the Black Plague epidemic that ravaged Europe in the 14th century was even more destructive, killing 90% of the European population. The story includes Europe being re-populated by Muslim pioneers, the indigenous peoples of the Americas forming a league to resist Chinese and Muslim invaders, and a 67-year-long world war being fought primarily between Muslim states and the Chinese and their allies
