The Zen of Screens – a workshop September 24th, 8am-9:30am
Join us for this exploration of the way in which the time we spend looking and interacting with Screens (smartphones, computers, etc.) has an impact on body, mind and soul.
“Our growing use of screens (smartphones, computers, etc.) raises questions for each of us: What is our relationship with our screens? How do screens make us more and less connected? How do they bear on our spiritual journey?
8am-9:30am Please RSVP: inryu@allbeingszen.org
Here is a basic outline of our upcoming event
Program for “The Zen of Screens”
Ten-minute meditation
Motivation for workshop—Surveys show that adults think they spend two hours of screen time per day, but they actually spend four hours. The dominance of screens in our life raises new questions: What is our relationship with your screens? How do screens make us more or less connected? How do they bear on our spiritual journeys?
Discussion 1—Each participant can say a few words on screens in their life.
Exercise 1—Each participant spends 10 mindful minutes on their screen doing their most common activities, followed by a 10 minute body scan meditation. Discussion.
Discussion 2—Most folks feel they are too caught up in screens, and their posture and thinking reflect excessive use. What is it that explains our excessive use? Screens could be another way for us to avoid our discomfort and naturally leads to consideration of the four noble truths.
Discussion 3
o Skillful screen use—Practical tips for how we use screens eg clean up apps, keep screen in different room…
o Skillful screen time— Record your screen time; hide digital distractions; digital fasting.
Final discussion
Shinren Mark Stone will help us develop our awareness of the influence of screens on body, mind and soul. Bring your favorite device!”
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.
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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 conclude by chanting the refuges in Pali. Please feel welcome to stay on zoom if you are able to share greetings with the sangha after the evening practice has concluded.
Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.
If you are asked for a password please use this 837695
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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Refuges in Pali
Brief Check in and announcements
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
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.
Tuesday: Dharma Tea at 2:00 pm /2:00pm-2:45pm: – Our Guiding Teacher Inryū Poncé- Barger will lead a tea discussion about Haiku. We will read and study a few Haiku poems and then write our own “Holiday Haiku”. Use this link to join If asked for a password use 995606 or See www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in .
Tonight we will have a short service that includes chanting the Heart Sutra in English. Followed by one period of Zazen and a Dharma Talk by our Abiding Teacher Inryū Sensei.. Will we close with chanting the refuges. You are welcome to stay online following the chanting of the refuges to share greetings with the sangha.
Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.
If you are asked for a password please use this 837695
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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Dharma Talk
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
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,
Join All Beings Zen Sangha for our annual Solstice Celebration in which we chant the Enmei 108 times. Inryū Sensei and perhaps others will offer 108 prostrations for each repetition of the chant. If joining from home, consider lighting a candle at the start of the ceremony and extinguishing the candle to close the ceremony.
Please use this link to join. If asked for a password use 002034
Tuesday: Dharma Tea at 2:30 pm /2:30pm-3:00pm: – Our Guiding Teacher Inryū Poncé- Barger will lead a tea discussion about the concepts of; “Having Tea with Mara” and “Wanting the Unwanted”. Use this link to join If asked for a password use 995606 or See www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in . Note the later start time than is the norm for today 12/20.
Saturday December 3, 2022 – Jukai Ceremony for four members of the Sangha at WHF. In person only
Fall 2021 Jukai final bow – photo by Shōryū Chris Leader
Sunday December 4, 2022 – Thursday December 8, 2022 (Rohatsu Observation Week) In person and online
for those dropping in for Sesshin – good entry points are before blocks of Zazen begin or during Kinhin periods. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 833340
6:30 – 7:10 Zazen
7:10- 7:30 Morning Service
7:30-8:45 Breakfast Morning Break/Dharma Study
8:45- 9:45 Morning Walk or indoor exercise
9:45- 10:15 Zazen
10:15- 11:00 Dharma Talk
11:00-11:30 Zazen
11:30-11:40 Kinhin
11:40- 12:15 Zazen
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Outdoor Kinhin/or Dharma Study
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-2:30 Work Practice
2:30-3:15 Tea with Discussion
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30- 3:45 Kinhin
3:45-4:15 Zazen
4:15-4:25 Kinhin
4:25-4:50 Zazen
4:50 – 5:00 Service
5:00 – 6:20 Dinner Evening Break
6:20 – 6:50 Zazen
6:50 – Kinhin
7:00 – 7: 10 Service///// Thursday alternate schedule to include Shosan Ceremony, Benji Poem and 108 recitations of “the” heart sutra.
November 25, 2022: Way Seeking Mind talk by Rui – following a brief period of zazen. Use this link to join.
If asked for a password use 050542
Please put your zoom in gallery mode, and keep your video link on while muting your mic until the end of Rui’s talk – 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.
Rui
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
Click below to see the order of service and chants.
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 25 minute period of zazen followed by a Way Seeking Mind talk offered by Cristina Benavides
If you are asked for a password please use this 837695
Cristina
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
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows chant
Way Seeking Mind Talk offered by Cristina Benavides
Join us via Zoom at 6:30am for morning zazen practice. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 465517
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.
Tuesday November 22, 2022: Dharma Tea at Two pm/2pm-2:45pm: Koryu Naomi will share an update from the 100th anniversary of Soto Zen in North America Event that concluded on Sunday. Please join using this link. If asked for a password use 995606
Join us for this exploration of the way in which the time we spend looking and interacting with Screens (smartphones, computers, etc.) has an impact on body, mind and soul.
