Year End Appeal

Taken refuge with All Beings Zen Make a year end contribution to keep the lights on

For 22 years the All Beings Zen Sangha has supported the practice of Zen in the Metropolitan Washington DC area.  In 2025 we hosted Sesshins (zen meditation retreats), forest bathing, mountain and beach zen group gatherings, dharma study events and temple arts activities.  Members of the sangha have represented ABZS at both the National and International level.  We brought back  knowledge on ways to support and sustain the thriving zen community we all desire.  Help us continue to thrive by providing a financial donation as we move into the new year of 2026.

In addition to supporting these activities and events, your dana also allows us to offset basic expenses associated with the zendo such as food and materials for retreats, maintenance, utilities and other fees.

Below are just a few photos of our diverse and engaging practice opportunities during the year 2025.

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All Beings Zen Sangha

2801 Adams Mill Road NW #306

Washington DC 20009

***Zendo Closed and most activities are cancaled from Tuesday December 23nd, 2025 – Thursday January 1st, 2026 ***Our normal schedule will resume on Friday January 2nd, 2026

Please join us again in the new year!

Photograph by Barbara Wenger

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Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between) and then our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony. 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

Greeting by the Kokyo

Harmony of Difference and Equality

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

Our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)

Please join us for evening practice, where we will have a shortened period of Zazen and evening service, followed by the Shuso Talk on our current Ango-practice text, Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors.

To join us online via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 493323

Use this link to join. If asked use this password 493323

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.

Robe Chant

40 minute period of Zazen

Four Great Vows

Morning Service

Morning Greetings

Baikaryu Eisanka 6-7pm– Japanese Plum Blossom Style Hymns with bells. Today we will be reviewing and singing ‘Sanbo Gowasan – English: Hymns of the Three Treasures’ .. as well as continuing to learn ‘Magokoro Ni Ikiru – English: Living with a True Heart’ in person only  – Contact Zen’etsu @ zenjoyclay@gmail.com for more informationBaika Vows we chant before beginning of practice:

1. We will live according to proper teachings through baikaryu eisanka.
2. We will live in harmony with others through baikaryu eisanka.
3. We will create a cheerful world around us through baikaryu eisanka.

Feel the outdoors of Paw Paw, West Virginia, where All Beings Zen Sangha gathered at a Sangha members beautiful mountain-top cabin in West Virginia, where we spent Friday through Sunday practicing the Buddha Way. Each day we began with zazen in the frosty morning, feeling the growing fire slowly starting to warm the space before the sun rose — followed by a full days schedule of Zazen, kinhin, and work practice. Some more moments included a Sangha Member Emyō leading a 1 hour yoga class as well as a chop making class! It was a wonderful weekend and we hope to visit Marcella’s nature haven again soon. Great gratitude.

Thursday, November 13 Rev. Shodo Spring Sensei offers a Dharma talk at All Beings Zen Temple. Rev. Shodo will focus on their recently published book “Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings”, online and in person.

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