6:30 – 7:10 Zazen

7:10- 7:30 Morning Service

7:30-9:00 Breakfast Morning Break

9:00- 10:00 Morning Walk or indoor exercise

10:15- 11:00 Dharma Talk

11:00-11:30 Zazen

11:30-11:40 Kinhin

11:40- 12:15 Zazen

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:15-1:45 Outdoor Kinhin/or Dharma Study

1:45-2:00 Break

2:00-2:30 Work Practice

2:30-3:15 Tea with Discussion

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30- 3:45 Kinhin

3:45-4:15 Zazen

4:15-4:25 Kinhin

4:25-4:30 Refuges in Pali

Use this link to join. If asked use this password  048577

Please join us tonight for a short service, one period of zazen followed by the Full Moon Ceremony.  Use this link to join and if asked used this password  641260.

Order of Service

Kokyo will welcome the sangha

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Heart Sutra in English

30 minute period of zazen

Ryaku Fusatsu/ Full Moon Ceremony

Refuges in Pali

If you are able to stay on the zoom call or in the zendo following the end of service we will have a brief check with those in attendance.

RYAKU FUSATSU

Full Moon Bodhisattva Ceremony

Repentance (3 X call and response)

All my ancient twisted karma

From beginningless greed, hate, and delusion

Born through body, speech, and mind

I now fully avow.

Homages (1 X call and response)

Homage to the Seven Buddhas before Buddha.

Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha.

Homage to Maitreya Buddha.

Homage to Manjusri Bodhisattva.

Homage to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

Homage to Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

Homage to the Succession of Ancestors.

Four Bodhisattva Vows (1X call and response)

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

ALL: I take refuge in Buddha.

Doshi: Before all beings,

Immersing body and mind

Deeply in the Way

Awakening true mind.

ALL:  I take refuge in Dharma.

Doshi:  Before all beings,

Entering deeply the merciful ocean

Of Buddha’s Way.

ALL:  I take refuge in Sangha.

Doshi:  Before all being,

Bringing harmony to everyone,

Free from hindrance.

Pure Precepts

All: I vow to refrain from all evil

Doshi:  It is the abode of the law of all Buddhas;

it is the source of the law of all Buddhas.

All:  I vow to make every effort to live in enlightenment.

Doshi:  It is the teaching of anuttara samyaksambodhi

and the path of the one who practices and that which is

practiced.

All:  I vow to live and be lived for the benefit of all beings.

Doshi:  It is transcending profane and holy and taking self

and others across.

Grave Precepts

All:  I vow not to kill

Doshi:  By not killing life the Buddha tree seed grows,

transmit the life of Buddha and do not kill.

All:  I vow not to take what is not given.

Doshi:  The self and objects are such as they are, two yet

one. The gate of liberation stands open.

All:  I vow not to misuse sexuality

Doshi:  Let the three wheels of self, object, and action be Pure.

With nothing to desire one goes along

Together with the Buddhas.

All:  I vow to refrain from false speech.

Doshi:  The Dharma Wheel turns from the beginning. There

Is neither surplus nor lack. The sweet dew

Saturates all and harvests the truth.

All:  I vow to refrain from intoxicants.

Doshi:  Originally pure, don’t defile. This is the great

Awareness.

All:  I vow not to slander.

Doshi:  In the Buddhadharma, go together, appreciate

Together, realize together, and actualize together.

Don’t permit fault finding. Don’t permit haphazard

Talk. Do not corrupt the Way.

All:  I vow not to praise self at the expense of others.

Doshi:  Buddhas and Ancestors realize the vast sky and the

Great earth. When they manifest the noble body,

there is neither inside nor outside in emptiness.

When they manifest the Dharma body there is not

Even a bit of earth on the ground.

All:  I vow not to be avaricious.

Doshi:  One phrase, one verse – that is the ten thousand

things and one hundred grasses; one Dharma, one

realization – is all Buddhas and Ancestors.

Therefor, from the beginning, there has been no

stinginess at all.

All:  I vow not to harbor ill will.

Doshi:  Not negative, not positive, neither real nor unreal,

there is an ocean of illuminated clouds and an

ocean of bright clouds.

All:  I vow not to abuse the Three Treasures.

Doshi:  To expound the Dharma with this body is foremost.

The virtue returns to the ocean of reality. It is

unfathomable; we just accept it with respect and

gratitude.

Dedication

Doshi:  Thus on this Full Moon morning (night) we offer the

Merit of the Bodhisattva Way through all world

Systems to the unborn nature of all beings.

All:  All Buddhas, Ten Directions,Three Times.

All Beings, Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas.

Wisdom Beyond Wisdom, Maha Prajna Paramita.

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

Dharma tea at 2pm led by former Shuso, Myoshin Carlos Moura on the topic of “The means and benefits of Loving-Kindness”. We will start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking and conclude the discussion with the four great vows. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 897614. Myoshin will be using a translation from the Pali by Piyadassi Thera.

Monday, November 15: Way Seeking Mind talk by Kyoji Christian Panas following a short period of Zazen. Use this link to join. If you are asked for a password use 813097

Click below to see the order of service and chants.

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Rev. Shinshu Roberts author Being-Time will join the sangha via zoom, 2 – 3:00pm.

Rev. Shinshu Roberts is co-founder and teacher, with Rev. Daijaku Kinst, of Ocean Gate Zen Center in Capitola, CA. She is a Dharma heir of Sojun Weitsman Roshi, in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. Shinshu Sensei also holds the appointment of International Dharma Teacher in the Japan. Use this link to join If asked for a password use 775064

Here is the like to join us via Zoom at 6:30am for morning zazen practice.

Way Seeking Mind talk by Grace McClain following a short period of Zazen at 6:30am.

 

If you are asked for a password use this  471305

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.

Click below to see the order of service and chants.

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Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM on Thursday October 14th  for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.  Tonight we will have short service in Spanish 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

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 Spanish

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minute Kinhin (slow walking) or stretch

25 Minute Zazen Period

Cuatro Votos 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

➞Sutra del Corazón de la Perfecta Sabidurí➚aa➘a➞āāā

⨀ Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva

a través de la práctica profunda de Prajna Paramita ⨀

Claramente vio que los cinco agregados son vacío y gracias a esta comprensión liberó todo el sufrimiento.

Sariputra la forma no es diferente del vacío,

vacío no es diferente de la forma.

La forma en sí misma es vacío,

vacío en sí mismo es forma.

Las sensaciones, percepciones, formaciones mentales

y la conciencia son igualmente vacío.

Sariputra todos los fenómenos son vacío.

No aparecen ni desaparecen,

no son puros ni impuros,

no crecen ni disminuyen.

Debido al vacío no hay forma ni sensación,

ni percepción, ni formación mental, ni conciencia;

Ni ojos, ni oídos, ni nariz, ni lengua, ni cuerpo, ni mente;

Ni vista, ni sonido, ni olor, ni gusto, ni tacto, ni objetos mentales;

ni ámbitos sensoriales ni ámbito de la conciencia.

No hay ignorancia ni extinción de la ignorancia

ni vejez y muerte ni extinción de la vejez y de la muerte

ni sufrimiento ni causa ni liberación

ni vía que conduzca a la liberación del sufrimiento

ni conocimiento ni obtención.

Sin nada que obtener, el bodhisattva confía en

Prajna Paramita ⨀ y así la mente está libre de obstáculos.

Sin obstáculos no hay miedo.

Alejado de las visiones erróneas se realiza el Nirvana.

Todos los budas del pasado, presente y futuro confían

en Prajna Paramita ⨀ por lo cual obtienen el perfecto, completo, insuperable despertar.

Por lo tanto, Prajna Paramita ⨀ es el mantra resplandeciente,

el mantra milagroso, el supremo mantra, el mantra incomparable, aquel que extingue todo sufrimiento y es verdadero, no falso.

Proclamamos el mantra Prajna Paramita que dice:

GATE GATE ⨀ PARAGATE ⨀ PARASAMGATE, BODHI SVAHA ∅

El cuerpo de Buddha impregna todos los mundos del Dharma, se manifiesta en todas partes ante todos los seres. Ya hemos recitado el Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo y El Sutra del Corazón de la Perfecta Sabiduría, con reverencia ofrecemos los méritos generados por esta practica a: ✪

Nuestro Gran Maestro Original de la Enseñanza, el Buda Shakyamuni ✪

Nuestro primer ancestro en China, Gran Maestro Bodhidharma; ✪

Nuestro primer ancestro en Japón, Gran Maestro Eihei Dogen; ✪

Nuestro primer ancestro en las Americas, Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki ✪

Nuestro primer Maestro Guia, Dairyu Michael Wenger ✪

Y todos los ancestros femeninos a travesa de la historia cuyos nombres se se han olvidado o dejados sin decir. ✪

Ofrecemos el merito de nuestra practica a George Floyd, Gianna Floyd, Philonise Floyd y a toda la familia Floyd y todos aquellos que sufren a diario por los efectos del racismo sistemico y la violencia en nuestra sociedad. ✪

Tambien ofrecemos el merito de nuestra practica a todos aquellos sufriendo por los efectos de la pandemia del Coronavirus ✪

Que con todos los seres nos libremos del sufrimiento y disfrutemos de la felicidad.

Que nuestros votos sinceros para lograr el Camino del Buda se realicen plenamente juntos. ➚➘➞ ✪

Todos los Budas, diez direcciones, tres tiempos ✪

Honrados, Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas ✪

Sabiduría tras el saber ✪.. …

Maha Prajna Paramita ✪ ✪ ✪

Cuatro Votos (Four Great Vows)

Los seres son innumerables,

hago el voto de liberarlos a todos.

Las obstrucciones mentales son inagotables,

hago el voto de acabarlas todas.

Las puertas del Dharma son ilimitadas,

hago el voto de entrar por todas.

La Vía del Buddha es insuperable,

hago el voto de realizarla.

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, November 9: Dharma tea at 2pm led by Koryu Naomi on the six paramitas and Dogen. Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 897614

Here is the link to join us via Zoom at 6:30am for morning practice. Lucy Turner will offer a Way Seeking Mind talk following a short period of zazen.

If you are asked for a password use this 471305

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.

Click below to see the order of service and chants.

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Tuesday, November 2: Dharma tea at 2pm led by Alex Langlinais.  Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 897614 

For our tea discussion today, I thought it would be fun to talk about the music that inspires us to practice or that captures something about the dharma.  Although Buddhism has a rich musical tradition (see below), we don’t always talk expressly about music as a vehicle for awakening.  So I’m curious to hear what tracks occupy that space for you.  In advance of the tea, please think of one or two songs that you associate with practice or turn to for inspiration.  You should feel welcome to share during discussion or just drop your faves into the chat box.  Afterwards, I’ll assemble a playlist for the sangha with our picks!     Music gets incorporated into the tradition in so many ways.  Just to name a few:

• Of course, there is our Soto Zen chanting.  Check out Deshimaru Roshi’s iconic rendition of the Heart Sutra to get your blood pumping or Rev. Taihaku Priest’s touching instructions on the Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo.
• From the Pure Land tradition, there’s the venerable and deeply peaceful practice of nembutsu chanting (most commonly in the form of “namo amituofo” or “namu amida butsu”).  Two great versions can be found here and here.
• From the Nichiren tradition, there’s the powerful Daimoku, reverent chanting of the name of the Lotus Sutra (“nam myoho renge kyo”).  You might have seen that the incomparable Tina Turner has many Daimoku tracks.
• On the instrumental side, there’s the introspective and (to me) heartbreaking practice of Honkyoku using the Shakuhaci flute.  Here’s a wonderful concerto by Alejandro Vazquez, a good friend of Shoryu’s who passed away last year.  
• There’s also the high energy and communal practice of Taiko drumming.  Here’s a recording of a group connected to the Ekoji Temple in Fairfax Station, VA.

And then there’s the ocean of pop music.  I’ll offer up Elvis Costello’s “Peace, Love, and Understanding” as an example, which reminds me that bodhicitta/way-seeking mind is a kind of throwing down the gauntlet on the side of, well, peace, love, and understanding!  From the video, you can also see just how far music videos have come since the early days.     Take a listen if you have a chance today.  I’ll play some of these to get us started, but more looking forward to hearing about the role music plays in your practice!     🙏 Alex