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Seven members of All Beings Sangha enjoyed a week of practice at the Beginners Mind Temple which is located near Tassajara Creek in the Los Padres National Forest.

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August 25th, 2026 Tuesday Tea at Two pm. (,2-2:45pm ) . Jorge Viscal will offer an examination of the teaching of no-thought (wu-nian) in the Platform Sutra (Red Pine’s translation and commentary) and a part of the introduction of “Zen Mind, Beginners Mind” for this Tuesday Tea.

Please join us tonight for an online only discussing of the Dharma Book Selection for August. “I am a cat”.

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This evening we will a short service (Enmei and Heart Sutra in English) followed by one 25-minute period of Zazen, a five minute interval of Kinhin, and a 15-minute period of Zazen, followed by the Ryaku Fusatsu, or Full Moon ceremony.

Photo by Seidō David Sarpal

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Tuesday Tea at Two pm.  “The Bell Gatha” led by Zen’etsu online only. 2-2:45pm 

Eight sangha members arrived by 10am at Woodburn Hill Farm on and exceptionally beautiful and relatively cool summer day. We enjoyed 4 periods of Zazen with slow walking intervals between each period of sitting meditation. We cleared the Iris beds between the two main houses and enjoyed a tasty vegan lunch silent lunch together before closing with chanting the refuges and heading back to our respective homes.

It was a welcome day of silent practice with sangha companions. Below are a few photos taken by Myoshin Carlos Moura of the activities.

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Train Dreams traces the life of Robert Grainier, a laborer in the early 20th-century American West. After a wildfire takes his family, Grainier retreats into the landscape, living out his days in quiet isolation amidst the shifting wilderness. Grainier’s journey is marked by a witnessing of change, grief, and the slow retreat of the world he was born into.

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This evening we will a short service (Enmei and Heart Sutra in English) followed by one period of Zazen, a five minute interval of Kinhin and a Talk by Rev. Seidō David Sarpal.

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Photo by Shundo Haye

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This evening, we will have a short service, followed by two periods of Zazen with a five-minute Kinhin interval in between. Since it is the first Thursday in June, we will “pass the feather.” We will conclude by chanting the refuges in Pali.

Above: Kanzeon, in our Zendo

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