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.
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.
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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2801 Adams Mill Road NW 402
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Tuesday: Dharma Tea at Two pm for June 21, 2022 . Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 003827
Inryū Sensei will talk about the seventh Ox Herding Picture. The Zen (Chan) Ox Herding School originated in China. The lessons were designed as a series of short poems and accompanying drawings to describe the stages of a practitioner’s progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion. We begin with five minutes of silent tea drinking. Please have a piece of paper and a writing implement in hand as Inryū Sensei will offer a guided reflection/meditation and ask the participants to write and draw on paper as part of the tea.
Being held at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Practice CenterOnlineDate / Time June 19, 2022 / 6:00pm – 7:00pm Eastern
Abbot’s Funeral for Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman
Long delayed due to Covid, an Abbot’s Funeral for Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi, former San Francisco Zen Center and Berkeley Zen Center Abbot, will take place on Sunday, June 19 at 3:00 pm. The ceremony will be livestreamed and all are invited to participate online.
Sojun’s Teachings Remembered in this tribute by some of his students here.
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Tuesday: Dharma Tea at Two pm for June 14, 2022 . Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 003827
Inryū Sensei will talk about the sixth Ox Herding Picture. The Zen (Chan) Ox Herding School originated in China. The lessons were designed as a series of short poems and accompanying drawings to describe the stages of a practitioner’s progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion. We begin with five minutes of silent tea drinking. Please have a piece of paper and a writing implement in hand as Inryū Sensei will offer a guided reflection/meditation and ask the participants to write and draw on paper as part of the tea.
Tuesday: Dharma Tea at Two pm for June 7, 2022 . Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 003827
Inryū Sensei will talk about the fifth Ox Herding Picture. The Zen (Chan) Ox Herding School originated in China. The lessons were designed as a series of short poems and accompanying drawings to describe the stages of a practitioner’s progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion. We begin with five minutes of silent tea drinking. Please have a piece of paper and a writing implement in hand as Inryū Sensei will offer a guided reflection/meditation and ask the participants to write and draw on paper as part of the tea.
The retreat is both in-person (urban Zendo) and via our cloud Zendo space. To join the cloud Zendo space use this link.
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6:30 Robe Chant /Zazen (first wave – time to arrive for early birds)
7:10 Short Service
7:25 Meal Offering
7:30 Oryoki Breakfast
8:15 Soji – Temple Cleaning
8:30 Break/Walk outside
9:00 Opening Bell Chant/Song of the Grass Hut (second wave – arrival at mid-morning)
9:15 Zazen
9:25 Kinhin
9:35 Zazen
10:05 Dharma Talk
10:40 Kinhin
10:50 Zazen
11:20 Kinhin
11:30 Zazen
12:00 Closing and Refuges
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The Branching Streams Conference is a gathering that happens about every two years. Branching Streams is a network of Suzuki Roshi lineage sanghas of which All Beings Zen is a part. Our Guiding Dharma Teacher and Senior Priest, Inryu Ponce-Barger, and Koryu Naomi had the privilege of attending the recent Branching Streams conference in-person on April 25-28 in Austin, TX. There were approximately 40 practitioners from the Suzuki Roshi lineage from Vancouver, BC, Germany, and many places in between. The conference was held at the Ancient Yoga Center, a retreat center situated on a 230-acre Hindu temple and ashram.
We practiced zazen in the mornings and evenings, with brief accompanying ceremonies, attended workshops, and connected with new and long-time friends in the larger sangha. In addition to new friendships we learned practical sangha administration ideas from each other, for example how other sanghas are approaching hybrid zendos and conducting outreach with young sangha members. We also did some spontaneous hiking!
Here’s a brief overview of the workshops from this year’s Branching Streams conference:
There’s so much more to share, but to sum it up: the Branching Streams conference conveyed the power of good spiritual friends, that spiritual friends are the whole of our practice, here in our sangha, and reaching across the globe. And we cannot do this bodhisattva work without each other and the friendships that sustain us.
Tuesday: Dharma Tea at Two pm for May 31, 2022 . Use this link to join.
Inryū Sensei will talk about the fourth Ox Herding Picture. The Zen (Chan) Ox Herding School originated in China. The lessons were designed as a series of short poems and accompanying drawings to describe the stages of a practitioner’s progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion. We begin with five minutes of silent tea drinking. Please have a piece of paper and a writing implement in hand as Inryū Sensei will offer a guided reflection/meditation and ask the participants to write and draw on paper as part of the tea.
Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 003827
Tuesday: Dharma Tea at Two pm for May 17, 2022 . Use this link to join.
Inryū Sensei will talk about the third Ox Herding Picture. The Zen (Chan) Ox Herding School originated in China. The lessons were designed as a series of short poems and accompanying drawings to describe the stages of a practitioner’s progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion. We begin with five minutes of silent tea drinking. Please have a piece of paper and a writing implement in hand as Inryū Sensei will offer a guided reflection/meditation and ask the participants to write and draw on paper as part of the tea.
Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 003827
Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for May 10, 2022. Use this link to join. 2-2:45 pm Eastern.
Inryū Sensei will offering teaching on the second of the 10 Oxherding drawings on May 10, 2022. The Zen (Chan) Ox Herding School originated in China. The lessons were designed as a series of short poems and accompanying drawings to describe the stages of a practitioner’s progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion.
brush painting by Max Gimblatt
Use this link to join. If asked use this password 003827
Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for May 3, 2022. Use this link to join. 2-2:45 pm Eastern.
Inryū Sensei will offering teaching on the first of the 10 Oxherding drawings on May 3, 2022. The Zen (Chan) Ox Herding School originated in China. The lessons were designed as a series of short poems and accompanying drawings to describe the stages of a practitioner’s progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion.
brush painting by Max Gimblatt
Use this link to join. If asked use this password 003827