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!
Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking) and a Dharma Talk by our Guiding Teacher Inryū Sensei. 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)
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)
Friday, August 16, 2024– 7pm ABZS re-launched having Dharma Movie Nights. Eight people came in person to view and discuss a documentary about famous Painter and Translator Kay Tanahashi . See below for a short video about the film.
“Painting Peace: The Art of Kazuaki Tanahashi,” is a film about the artist, calligrapher, translator, and peace activist known as Kaz Tanahashi. Featuring exchanges with Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi, Dairyu Michael Wenger Roshi, and Kaz himself, among many others, this exquisitely-filmed, and seldom-seen Dutch documentary opens a window into the life of a key figure in the dialogue between Asian and European cultures.
July 9-14 2024 All Beings Zen Sangha at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Photo by Richard Urban – 2024 ABZS Sangha Week participants at Tassajara Zen Mountain CenterPhoto by Richard Urban – All Beings Zen Sangha and Enso Village Sangha week participants outside the zendo of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center on Sunday July 14th, 2024
All Beings Zen Sangha is announcing a call to artists for the 2025 Sangha calendar project. Submissions are now being accepted for drawings, paintings, photography, poetry, brief writings, and other forms in digital format.
July 9-14 2024 All Beings Zen Sangha at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Photo by Richard Urban – 2024 ABZS Sangha Week participants at Tassajara Zen Mountain CenterPhoto by Richard Urban – All Beings Zen Sangha and Enso Village Sangha week participants outside the zendo of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center on Sunday July 14th, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024 7pm-8pm. Planning meeting for NEW Dharma Book Club –
Starting this summer interested membersof the All Beings Zen Sangha are warmly welcome to join sangha member Shoku Doshin in a new dharma book club. If you are interested please reach out to Shoku (Cristina) on email at cristinamariabenavides@gmail.com.
Our objective is to provide a semi-casual space for Dharma book discussion. We will focus on books or essays written for lay audiences, mostly focusing on books with an explicit Buddhist perspective but with an openness to non-Buddhist books with nonetheless rich themes for exploration — the dharma is everywhere!
The current thinking is to meet monthly online, in coordination with Inryǔ Sensei as there may be months where the sangha has a different dharma study focus for Ango or through our library and vast Branching Streams network. If you are interested please reach out to Shoku (Cristina) on email at cristinamariabenavides@gmail.com.
We are asking for as many participants as are interested and also a few volunteers to help ensure the book club continues steadily if other parts of life require the attention the organizers.
Let’s gather on zoom on Monday July 1st at 7pm to decide upon guidelines for participation and to select books for August and September. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 606657
Tuesday – Dharma Tea – June 11th, 2024 2:-2:45pm Eastern – Dharma Tea with Sensei Inryū. During this Dharma tea Sensei Inryū will share photographs from her April 2024 visit to Suzuki Roshi’s home Temple, Rinso-in which is in the mountains above Yaizu Japan. Online only.
Inryū Sensei offering incense at Shunryū Suzuki Roshi’s grave near Rinso-in Temple, Japan on April 24, 2024
For the All Beings Zen Sangha Tuesday Teas at Two, a topic is introduced and then a few questions are proposed for discussion by those present. The Teas are online only.
We start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking.The dharma tea concludes at 2:45pm Eastern. All are welcome.
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 a short service before one period of Zazen. We will then have a Dharma Inryū Sensei or Guiding Teacher and end with the chanting of the refuges.
If you are asked for a password please use this 806719
ABZS does keep an attendance of participation in sangha events* this is done for the welfare of it’s members and for guidance in future programing
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 in Japanese (7 times)
Heart Sutra in English
25 minute period of zazen
5 minutes of kinhin
Talk by Rev. Seidō David Sarpal
Refuges in Pali
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,
