All Beings Zen Sangha

All Beings Zen Sangha Book Group Meeting July 14, 2025 6pm Eastern

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July 14,2025 6pm — Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 043056

Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japan’s Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo; the park near Ueno Station – the same place his unquiet spirit now haunts in death. It is here that Kazu’s life in Tokyo began, as a labourer in the run up to the 1964 Olympics, and later where he ended his days, living in the park’s vast homeless ‘villages’, traumatised by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and enraged by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Akutagawa-award-winning author Yū Miri uses her outsider’s perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan’s most vulnerable people.

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  • Fifteen people attended our May 19th Half Day Retreat

    Recipe for the Muesli that went into the first bowl for Oryoki breakfast on May 19th, 2013

    Ingredients.

    • 3 tablespoons of apple sauce
    • 2 tablespoons of maple syrup
    • 2 1/2 cups rolled oats
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    • Pinch of nutmeg
    • 1/2 cup chopped hazelnuts
    • 1/2 cup flaked almonds
    • 1/2 cup pepitas
    • 1 cup shredded coconut
    • 1 1/2 cups puffed rice
    • 1 cup all bran
    • 1/2 cup chopped apricots
    • 1/2 cup dried cranberries
    • 1/2 cup raisins

    Method.

    Preheat the oven to 200C / 390F. Makes about 8 servings

    In a large bowl drizzle the apple sauce and maple syrup all around the inside of the bowl. Add the oats, cinnamon and nutmeg and stir in until all the apple sauce and maple syrup is mixed in.

    Spread the oats evenly on a large oven proof tray and bake in the oven for ten minutes.

    Remove the oats from the oven and sprinkle the pecans, almonds and pepitas on top. Sprinkle the coconut on last. Return to the oven for around 3 minutes; until the coconut is toasted.

    Take from the oven again and add the puffed rice. Turn the oven off and put the muesli back in for a minute to crisp up the puffed rice.

    Remove the tray from the oven, pour the muesli back into the bowl with dried fruit. Mix together and leave to cool before storing.

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    The recipe is a slight adaptation from: http://veganforeveryone.com/recipes/apple-pecan-muesli/

  • All Beings Abode Zen Sangha May 19th Half-day Sitting Schedule

    All Beings Abode Zen Sangha May 19th
    Half-day Sitting Schedule

    6 am zazen
    6:40 kinhin
    6:50 zazen
    7:17 Robe Chant
    7:20 morning service
    7:40 zazen/open
    8:00 continued
    8:20 kinhin
    9:00 Oryoki instruction
    9:15 Oryoki (oroyki means “just enough,” and the meal is eaten in silence in the meditation hall)
    9:30 break
    10:00 zazen
    10:35 kinhin
    10:45 Practice discussion
    11:35 zazen
    noon Three Refuges

     

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    This is the first post for the new All Beings Abode Zen group’s website.  There will be more soon.  Bear with us while we get this up and running, folks.  Thanks!