Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for March 22, 2022. Use this link to join.  2-2:45 pm Eastern.

Dharma Tea at 2pm with Kōryū Naomi Knoble on March 29, 2022 – focusing on the Women Zen Ancestors.

In today’s tea Koryū will discuss women ancestors and the role of lineage in Soto Zen. We’ll discuss lineage as a statement of Zen’s identity (relative to other forms of Buddhism), emphasis on the value of spiritual relationships between teachers and students, and also a declaration of power and authority, which in Zen’s history has indicated political authority as well as authority to teach. Who gets to be included in the patriarchal lineage chart, which originated with early Zen (Chan) practitioners in China, has changed over time as Zen has evolved and moved into different countries/cultures. In Japan, although women were the first to ordain as Buddhist monastics, cultural perceptions of women eventually shifted to overtly exclude women practitioners. There were many important women ancestors in India, China, and Japan, and we’ll briefly get acquainted with the legacy of three of them. Our tea discussion will explore how the history of lineage charts and misogyny impacts our present-day experience of Soto Zen and our relationship to women ancestors. 

First 5 minutes are spent in silent tea drinking.

Saturday March 26, 2022 2pm .  Zen and Recovery class

   Rev. KoShin Steven Tierney, Sensei will visit ABZS to offer a class on “Zen and Recovery”. Use this link to join.   If asked for a password use 364285

Steven Tierney, Kai Po Koshin, began Buddhist practice in 1994. He first received the precepts from Thich Nhat Hahn at Plum Village in 1997. He was ordained in 2013 and received Dharma Transmission in November 2021 in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi, founder of the SF Zen Center.
Dr. Tierney is a psychotherapist in private practice and a Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology at CIIS (the CA Institute of Integral Studies). He is a Certified Addiction Specialist and has been named a Diplomate in Clinical Mental Health by the American Mental Health Counselors Association.

Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for March 8, 2022. Use this link to join.  2-2:45 pm Eastern.

Cristina Leifson  – offers a tea talk titled “Billie Holiday is My Teacher.” Focusing on the artistry and life of Billie Holiday in honor of both the recent Black History Month and the current Women’s History Month.  Cristina will offer some historical background and play Billie Holiday’s song “My Man” to illuminate the percept “I take up the way of not speaking falsely The first 5 minutes we share silence while drinking tea together. Use this link to join.  2-2:45 pm Eastern.

Saturday March 12, 2022 2pm Eastern Please use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 410456

Rev. Norman Fischer, Roshi  will visit ABZS to talk about his new book ‘When You Greet Me I Bow; Notes and Reflections of a life in Zen”.    Please use this link to join.  Zoketsu Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest in the Suzuki Roshi lineage family. He was a resident priest at the San Francisco Zen Center for many years, and served as Co-Abbot from 1995-2000, when he founded the Everyday Zen Foundation. His latest poetry collections are The Museum of Capitalism (2021) and Selected Poems 1980-2013 (2022); his latest Buddhist title is When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. He lives on the Northern California coast with his wife Kathie, also a Zen Buddhist priest.

Please use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 410456

*ABZS does keep an attendance of participation in sangha events*  this is done for the welfare of it’s members and for guidance in future programing

**Donations are appreciated as ABZS will be providing Rev. Fischer with an honorarium for joining us**

Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for March 8, 2022. Use this link to join.  2-2:45 pm Eastern.

Inryū Sensei will present some art and information about Harriet Tubman in honor of both the recent Black History Month and the current Women’s History Month.  The first 5 minutes we share silence to drink tea together.

Please find the curator’s tour online here – https://youtu.be/Djyx7n_C8SI
The exhibit can be seen in- person between March and November 2022 . 

Today: Friday, March 4th at 3PM EST
 

The European Buddhist Union is deeply concerned and saddened by the war in Ukraine. We hope that hostilities will end soon and a peaceful solution to the crisis will be found; war has a destructive effect on all of us. Especially in this century, it is the task of all of us to become one big human family on this planet, supporting and respecting each other. Diplomatic dialogue, wisdom and compassion must take precedence over weapons and aggression.

The European Buddhist Union appeals to all its members and supporters to organize a special meditation and prayer session Friday at 3PM EST to promote a sense of peace, togetherness and awareness —  each and everyone can meditate for themselves at this time, we will all be connected through practice.

A shared moment of practice is very important in the face of the current crisis, to alleviate the suffering in ourselves and others, and so that wars like the one against Ukraine do not happen. This beautiful world should not be stained with blood, but adorned with the flower of love, which is the real and better task of human beings.

— The European Buddhist Union, March 1, 2022.
 

Join the Chapel Hill Zen Center Zoom Zendo at 3PM
following our ongoing, Friday afternoon zazen at 1PM.

Via computer: www.zoom.us/j/821378615
Via phone: (646) 558-8656
Meeting ID: 821 378 615

Donations to the United Nations Refugee Agency can made on the UN HCR website: https://giving.unhcr.org/en/ukraine/

Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for March 1, 2022. Use this link to join.  If asked use this password 784873

Inryū Sensei will show photographs and talk about her recent trip to Dragons Leap Temple to assist with a Priest Ordination   2-2:45 pm Eastern.  The first 5 minutes we share silence to drink tea together.

 Use this link to join.  If asked use this password 784873

Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM  for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.  Tonight we will have short service in with chants in a number of languages: Japanese, Chinese, English followed by two periods of  Zazen.   We will close by chanting the Refuges in Pali.  If you would like stay after refuges and do a welcome and check-in please do.

If you are asked for a password please use this  641260

ABZS does keep an attendance of participation in sangha events*  this is done for the welfare of it’s members and for guidance in future programing

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 Chinese

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minute Kinhin (slow walking) or stretch

25 Minute Zazen Period

Four Great Vows

Refuges in Pali

Post service check in (please feel welcome to stay or depart as your schedule requires)

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 Sutra in Chinese

bō rě bō luó mì duō xīn jīng  

guān zì zài pú sà , xíng shēn bō rě bō luó mì duō shí，zhào jiàn wǔ yùn jiē kōng, dù yī qiē kǔ è。

shè lì zǐ, sè bù yì kōng ，kōng bù yì sè , sè jí shì kōng , kōng jí shì sè。

shòu xiǎng xíng shí，yì fù rú shì。

shè lì zǐ, shì zhū fǎ kōng xiāng,

bù shēng bù miè, bù gòu bù jìng, bù zēng bù jiǎn ,

shì gù kōng zhōng wú sè, wú shòu xiǎng xíng shí,

wú yǎn ěr bí shé shēn yì, wú sè shēng xiāng wèi chù fǎ, 

wú yǎn jiè, nǎi zhì wú yì shí jiè, wú wú míng , yì wú wú míng jìn,

nǎi zhì wú lǎo sǐ, yì wú lǎo sǐ jìn。

wú kǔ jí miè dào, wú zhì yì wú dé, yǐ wú suǒ dé gù。

pú tí sà duǒ, yī bō rě bō luó mì duō gù, xīn wú guà ài。

wú guà ài gù, wú yǒu kǒng bù, yuǎn lí diān dǎo mèng xiǎng, jiū jìng niè pán。

sān shì zhū fó, yī bō rě bō luó mì duō gù, dé ā nòu duō luó sān miǎo sān pú tí。

gù zhī bō rě bō luó mì duō, shì dà shén zhòu, shì dà míng zhòu,

shì wú shàng zhòu, shì wú děng děng zhòu。néng chú yī qiē kǔ, zhēn shí bù xū。

gù shuō bō rě bō luó mì duō zhòu, jí shuō zhòu yuē：

jiē dì jiē dì, bō luó jiē dì, bō luó sēng jiē dì, pú tí sà pó hē。

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.

Buddha’s way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.

Refuges in Pali (Call and Response)

Accapella, inflections as follows:

➞Buddham Saranam Ga➚cha➘mi➞iii

BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for February 22, 2022. Use this link to join.  If asked use this password 784873

Dairyū Michael Wenger, Roshi will join All Beings Zen Sangha for our weekly tea.  Bring your curiosity and questions for the Great Dragon.  2-2:45 pm Eastern.  The first 5 minutes we share silence to drink tea together.

 Use this link to join.  If asked use this password 784873