Tonight we will be in-person and live in the cloud zendo. The evening practice will begin with a short service followed by one period of Zazen. Following Zazen we will have our 2023 Spring Practice Period Shuso Entering Ceremony. Please feel welcome to stay on zoom following the ceremony to express your encouragement to the Spring Shuso Koryu Naomi Knoble.
Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.
If you are asked for a password please use this 794038
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
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo
Heart Sutra in English
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Shuso Entering Ceremony
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo
KAN ZEON
NA MU BUTSU
YO BUTSU U IN
YO BUTSU U EN
BUP PO SO EN
JO RAKU GA JO
CHO NEN KANZEON
BO NEN KANZEON
NEN NEN JU SHIN KI
NEN NEN FU RI SHIN
Heart of Great Perfect Wisdom Sutra
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva,
when deeply practicing prajña paramita,
clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty
and thus relieved all suffering.
Shariputra,
form does not differ from emptiness,
emptiness does not differ from form.
Form itself is emptiness,
emptiness itself form.
Sensations, perceptions, formations,
and consciousness are also like this.
Shariputra,
all dharmas are marked by emptiness;
they neither arise nor cease,
are neither defiled nor pure,
neither increase nor decrease.
Therefore, given emptiness, there is
no form, no sensation, no perception,
no formation no consciousness;
no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind;
no sight, no sound, no smell, no taste,
no touch, no object of mind;
no realm of sight… no realm of mind consciousness
There is neither ignorance nor extinction of ignorance…
neither old age and death,
nor extinction of old age and death;
no suffering, no cause, no cessation, no path;
no knowledge and no attainment.
With nothing to attain,
a bodhisattva relies on prajña paramita,
and thus the mind is without hindrance.
Without hindrance, there is no fear.
Far beyond all inverted views, one realizes nirvana.
All buddhas of past, present, and future
rely on prajña paramita and thereby attain
unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment.
Therefore, know the prajña paramita ⨀ as
the great miraculous mantra,
the great bright mantra,
the supreme mantra,
the incomparable mantra,
which removes all suffering
and is true, not false.
Therefore we proclaim the prajña paramita mantra,
the mantra that says:
“Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.”
All Buddhas
All Buddhas, ten directions, Three times
All Honored Ones, Bodhisattvas-Mahasattvas
Wisdom beyond wisdom
Maha Prajna Paramita
THE FOUR GREAT VOWS
Beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma Gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
Maka Hanya Haramita Shin Gyo
KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN HAN NYA
HA RA MI TA JI SHO KEN GO ON KAI
KU DO IS SAI KU YAKU SHA RI SHI
SHIKI FU I KU KU FU I SHIKI SHIKI
SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKI JU SO
GYO SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE SHA RI
SHI ZE SHO HO KU SO FU SHO FU
METSU FU KU FU JO FU ZO FU GEN
ZE KO KU CHU MU SHIKI MU JU SO
GYO SHIKI MU GEN NI BI ZE SHIN
NI MU SHIKI SHO KO MI SOKU HO MU
GEN KAI NAI SHI MU I SHIKI KAI MU
MU MYO YAKU MU MU MYO JIN NAI
SHI MU RO SHI YAKU MU RO SHI JIN
MU KU SHU METSU DO MU CHI YAKU
MU TOKU I MU SHO TOK KO BO DAI
SAT TA E HAN NYA HA RA MI TA
KO SHIN MU KE GE MU KE GE KO
MU U KU FU ON RI IS SAI TEN DO
MU SO KU GYO NE HAN SAN ZE SHO
BUTSU E HAN NYA HA RA MI TA
KO TOKU A NOKU TA RA SAM MYAKU
SAM BO DAI KO CHI HAN NYA HA
RA MI TA ZE DAI JIN SHU ZE DAI
MYO SHU ZE MU JO SHU ZE MU TO
DO SHU NO JO IS SAI KU SHIN JITSU
FU KO KO SETSU HAN NYA HA RA
MI TA SHU SOKU SETSU SHU WATSU
GYA TE GYA TE HA RA GYA TE
HARA SO GYA TE BO DHI SOWA KA
HAN NYA SHIN GYO
