For those who may have missed it, Shinren Mark Stone’s talk about zen practice and technology was recently profiled by NPR. It’s an excellent write up.
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Morning Practice for October 13, 2025 6:30am Eastern
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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.
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Service
Morning Greetings
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Evening Practice for October 9, 2025 7pm Eastern
Thursday October 9 , 2025 7- 8:15pm Evening Zazen – A short service followed by a short period of zazen. Fall 2025 Practice Period Shuso Zen’etsu Clay Crowell will offer a Way Seeking Mind Talk and have a Q & A following the talk. In person and online
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Baika Practice for October 7, 6:00 – 7:00pm
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 information
Baika Vows we chant before beginning of practice:
- We will live according to proper teachings through baikaryu eisanka.
- We will live in harmony with others through baikaryu eisanka.
- We will create a cheerful world around us through baikaryu eisanka.
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Morning Practice for October 6, 2025 6:30am Eastern
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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.
Morning Practice
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Greetings
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Morning Practice for October 3, 2025 6:30am Eastern
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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.
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Service
Morning Greetings
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Wonderful Foraging Workshop with Sven Andes last Saturday September 27, 2025
Sven offered ABZS members information on responsible foraging practices. He shared how to identify three types of Fungi (Turkey Feather, Mitaki and Chicken of the Woods. We then enjoy a tea, a bowl of stew and a rice dish. Each one including one of the mushrooms in the recipe.
“Nature is bountiful if we take care of it! Come learn about the wonderful things we can forage in nature from the DMV area. The workshop is an introduction to foraging with respect to the land, including how we can build understanding of our surrounding environment and cultivate positive relationships with land through the art of foraging.” Sven Andes
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Book Group for Tuesday September 23, 2025 7pm Eastern. “The Years of Rice and Salt”
Monday September 23, 2025 6pm — The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Years of Rice and Salt is an Alternate History novel by writer Kim Stanley Robinson. The story spans hundreds of years, from the army of the Muslim conqueror Timur to the 21st century. The novel depicts world history in an alternate timeline where the Black
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Dharma Tea on Tuesday for September 23, 2025 2-2:45pm Eastern “Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors”
Tuesday, September 23: Tuesday Tea at 2pm “Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors: Introduction and Comments” – led by Seiryū Paula
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Evening Practice for September 18, 2025 7pm Eastern
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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
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Evening Practice for September 11, 2025 7pm Eastern
Thursday September 11 , 2025 7- 8:15pm Evening Zazen – One period of zazen. We will have our Shuso Entering Ceremony. In person and online -Inryū Sensei will offer information and encouragement as we enter our Fall Practice Period.
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Fall 2025 Practice Period Shuso Zen’etsu Clay Crowell