All Beings Zen Sangha

Morning Practice for November 14, 2022 6:30am Eastern- Way Seeking Mind Talk by Eishin

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

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.

Mike
Mike

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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

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  • Call for Artists – submissions for ABZS 2020 Calendar

    Call to Artists! All Beings Zen Sangha is announcing a call to artists for the 2020 Sangha calendar project. Submissions are now being accepted for drawings, paintings, photography, poetry, and other forms of art and expression in digital format. Please submit up to three works for consideration by August 15, 2019 via e-mail to Inryu at inryubobbi@gmail.com or John at emailjohnf@gmail.com

    (photo by Alex Lima)

    May all beings be happy!

  • Making Paper Cranes Fly: A Report from Fort Sill, Oklahoma by Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams

     

    By REV. DUNCAN RYUKEN WILLIAMS

    Buddhist Leaders Join Tsuru for Solidarity and Other Marchers at Fort Sill Protest [July 20, 2019] (credit, AP Wire)
    Tsuru for Solidarity x Buddhist Clergy and Lay Leaders: Group Photo Before the March onto Fort Sill Entrance (credit, Julie Yumi Hatta) Tsuru for Solidarity NYC (alphabetical): Becca Asaki, Mike Ishii, Linda Morris, Lauren Sumida, Carl Takei

    Buddhist Clergy and Lay Leaders (alphabetical): Rev. Myozen Joan Amaral (Zen Center North Shore, MA), Rev. Gyokuko Carlson (Dharma Rain Zen Center, OR), Rev. William Briones (LA Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple), Rev. Eijun Linda Ruth Cutts (San Francisco Zen Center), Rev. Zenshin Greg Fain (Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery), Rev. Jitsujo Tina Gauthier (Zen Center of Los Angeles), Rev. Tova Green (San Francisco Zen Center), Rev. Gesshin Greenwood (Empty Moon Zen Center), Julie Yumi Hatta (Buddhist Churches of America), Rev. Ryuji Hayashi (LA Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin), Sandy Seiju Hockenbury (Eon Zen Center, CO), Maurice Hoover (Prairie Wind Sangha, Oklahoma City), Juliet Hwang (Plum Village Sangha), Rev. Shumyo Kojima (LA Zenshuji Soto Mission), Rev. Mui Mike Lewis (Great Mountain Zen Center, CO), Rev. Nick Ushin Lowry (Rinzai/Oklahoma City), Keigetsu Heather Martin (San Antonio Zen Center), Rev. Egyoku Nakao (Zen Center of Los Angeles), Steven Nakasone (LA Higashi Honganji/Plum Village Sangha), Judy Nakatomi (San Diego Vista Buddhist Temple/Plum Village Sangha), Kenley Neufeld (Plum Village Sangha), Rev. Inryu Bobbi Ponce-Barger (All Beings Sangha, DC), Rev. Tenku Ruff (Soto Zen Buddhist Association), Eric Kairen Russell (Tendai Buddhist Institute/Oklahoma City), Rev. Grace Schireson (Shogaku Zen Institute), Kathy Spengler (Rissho Koseikai/Oklahoma City), Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams (author of American Sutra)

     

    To read the full report by Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams click here 

  • Remembrance of July 20th, 2019 Tsuru for Solidarity gathering in Oklahoma by ABZS guiding teacher Rev. Inryu.

     

    Before joining the morning procession to the memorial site near the Ft. Sill Gate we were gathered for a photograph

    Walking in the procession (Buddhist Clergy to the right in the below photograph)

    Protestors march outside Fort Sill in protest of plans to place migrant children at the Army post in Lawton, Okla., Saturday, July 20, 2019. (Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman via AP)

    Later in the day at Shepler park…

    Tsuru (paper peace cranes) being offered in the second memorial service of the day to those who have suffered or were killed at Ft Sill Army Base in the past. The names of Indiginous Indian leaders were remembered.  The names of Americans of Japanese decent were remembered who died at Ft Sill interment during WWII and the names of the 10 children who have died in I.C.E custody or trying to get safe passage into the U.S. during the past year were also remembered thus linking past to present.

    Those gathering at the park (more than two hundred mostly youth leaders) were invited to write the names of someone they mourned and remembered.  It was heart wrenching to see so many young people writing names and walking to the altar to offer the names for remembering.  So much suffering was being processed in this second memorial service of our day.  All the priests were struggling to remain steady witnessing this gravity, this solemn expression of so many young people’s life experience.

  • Tsuru for Solidarity – Peace Cranes

    99 Paper Peace Cranes which our All Beings Zen Sangha made.  Inryu Sensei is taking these with her to Ft Sill Oklahoma today as part of the Tsuru for Solidarity gathering on Saturday.

  • ABZS Late June Spring Retreat at Woodburn Hill Farm

    Photography by Vero Balderas-Iglesias

  • June 2019 Private Practice Week for Members of All Beings Zen Sangha at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center

    Members of All Beings Zen Sangha at Green Gulch Zen Center, Mill Valley CA visiting for a five day private practice week. We had a wonder filled time. Practiced with the resident community in the beautiful Zen Temple, we worked alongside in the kitchen and fields each morning and in our afternoon evening and free time we hiked the coyote trail, visited Muir Beach, wrote death poems, brush painted Enso’s and kept a daily Segiki journal.

  • May 18th – Doanryo Training

    Rev Shokuchi Deidre Carrigan offering training for All Beings Zen Sangha Doanryo

  • Yuriko Beaman “KonMari” workshop Saturday May 4th, 2019

    Very fun “KonMari” workshop taught by Yuriko Beaman for eleven All Beings Zen Sangha Members last Saturday. Yuriko inspired us to begin to look at our homes in a fresh way. Asking us “What do you want from your life?” “What does your ideal home after it is tidied look like?” She then outlined the way to move ourselves in that direction by focusing on one area at a time and holding and evaluating each item asking what action with this item moves us toward the tidied home and life we envisioned. She gave us direction on how to say goodbye to items we are ready to let go of and instructions on how to fold, store, displaying the items that we’ve decided to keep. She asked us to shift our mindset asking what items are joy sparking. She can be contacted for personal consulting via her web site www.joyandspace.com

  • Photos from our Spring 2019 Sesshin at Woodburn Hill Farm

    Here are a few photographs from our 5 day All Beings Zen Sangha Spring Sesshin at Woodburn Hill Farm. In the background you can see that the trees had a neon green of pollen to drop. The bird songs in the mornings were a glorious symphony. And the full moon filled the night sky and our dreams. What a great time and place for deep diving into Dharma practice

    Photography by  Kaizen and Longman.

  • Great Turn out for the Restorative Justice and Zen Workshop

    Photography by Vero Hires