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
Thursday January 16th , 2025 7pm – 8:15pm Evening Zazen – Brief Evening Service one period of zazen with a 5 minute Kinhin (slow walking) interval before our Monthly Wellbeing Service. We will conclude with the chanting of the Refuges. In person and online see www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in
***ABZS Affinity Groups ***
Sundays 5pm – 6pm Weekly Healing Circle – ongoing every Sunday Contact Shinren markstone1924@gmail.com Online only
Monthly Dharma Book Club – contact Shoku @ cristinamariabenavides@gmail.com Online only
Monday Feb 10, 2024 6pm – 7:30pm first half of the gathering will be to Revist the book by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s
“In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying” see sign in link below
the second have 6:45-7:30 will be to revisit the book “American Sutra” by Duncan Williams
Baikaryu Eisanka – Japanese buddhist hymn and baika bells – contact Zen’etsu @ zenjoyclay@gmail.com for more information.
Looking to 2025
Monday January 20th, 2025 10-4 – MLK Jr Day – Zazenkai (full day meditation retreat). To include: Morning Public Service Samu (work practice), Oryoki lunch and Dharma Discussion over afternoon tea. All are welcome. Suggested donation $15-$30. email Inryū to register inryu@allbeingszen.org. We need a volunteer work leader, cook and time keeper.
Friday January 24th, 2025 7pm – Dharma Movie Night. Join the ABZS community for another showing of the Buddhist Classic “Groundhog Day”. Urban Zendo. Bring a vegan food to share. In person only
Saturday January 25th, 2025 2pm – ABZS at the Museum. Join the ABZS community for a visit to the NMAI to see “Sublime Light” exhibit and sit zazen. Here is a short film about the artist BY Begay. Museum entry is free. In person only
Monday January 27th, 2025 7:10am Memorial Service for Sheila O’Brien Otten (1942 — 2024) following one period of zazen (which begins at 6:30am Eastern).
February 8th, 2025 2pm 2pm Dharma Tea led by Junji Sun on their “Experience at Nui Ba Den, Vietnam’s mountaintop temple”. In person and online.
Monday Feb 10, 2024 6pm – 7:30pm first half of the gathering will be to Revist the book by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s “In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying” online only
the second have 6:45-7:30 will be to revisit the book “American Sutra” by Duncan Williams only online
February 18th, 2025 – Ireichō National Tour arrives in Washington DC. where there will be a special exhibit of the original copy of Executive Order 9066 alongside the Ireichō, with stamping opportunities to commemorate the Day of Remembrance at the Smithsonian from February 19-21, 2025.
Named after the Japanese term for “consoling the spirits,” the Ireichō monument honors both those who have gone before us as well as those who carry on the memories and legacies of forced removal, unjust incarceration, and family separation. Every visitor to the monument is invited to contribute to the creation of the monument by marking one or more names in the Ireichō with a blue hanko stamp. For many camp survivors and descendants, leaving this mark has been a way to honor the personhood of a family member who suffered the indignities and losses of the wartime incarceration.
“[Names of family members] physically printed in the Ireichō gives me hope that we can remember what they went through and secure their legacy.”
More details about this event can be found here.
June 25-29, 2025 – ABZS visit to Green Gulch Farm/Green Dragon Temple 5 days at $90 per night with daily work practice and Dharma study activities. Here is a photo of our group from or last visit to Green Gulch in June 2019. Registration details TBA.
August 5-10, 2025 – 5 Day Sesshin (Zen Retreat) at Woodburn Hill Farm, Mechanicsville, MD. More details to follow
September 15-18, 2025 – Suzuki Roshi Branching Streams Conference, Loyola University’s Retreat and Ecology Center, Woodstock, IL. More details to follow
October 23-26, 2025 – Annual U.S. Soto Zen Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii
Interested in attending? Please visit www.sotomission.com or www.sotomission.org to sign up for updates. Or register your interest by filling out this form