Use this link to join. If asked use this password 493323
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.
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Service
Morning Greetings
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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All Beings Zen Sangha
27290 Woodburn Hill Road
Mechanicsville, MD 20659
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All Beings Zen Sangha
C/O Rev. Inryū Ponce-Barger,
2801 Adams Mill Road NW 402
Washington DC 20009
All Beings Zen Sangha Zen Meditation Retreat Schedule 8:30am-4:30pm
To join via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 637783
8:30 Welcome and orientation (led by Inryū)
8:40 Explanation of the Jundo
8:45 Jundo and Incense offering
8:50 Robe Chant (lead by Kokyo) followed by 40 minute period of Zazen
9:30 10 minute period of Kinhin (slow walking meditation)
9:40 30 minute period of Zazen
10:10 10 minute period of Kinhin
10:20 30 minute period of Zazen
10:50 10 minute period of Kinhin
11:00 30 minute perio dof Zazen
11:30 Sandokai and the Full Moon Service
12:05pm Lunch –Formal Oryoki
1:00pm Lunch clean up/break
1:20pm Outdoor walk (weather permiting) or Dharma study
2:15 Tea and Cookies/Dharma Discussion led by Inryū
3:10pm Kinhin (slow walking meditation)
3:20pm 30 minute period of Zazen
3:50pm 10 minutes of Kinhin
4:00pm 30 minute period of Zazen
4:30pm Chanting of the Refuges/photo/closing of Zazenkai
Friday November 15, 2024 6:30am – Way Seeking Mind Talk following a brief period of zazen – Binji Mukherjee will give a WSM talk. To join use this link. If asked for a password use 463913
Wednesday November 13, 2024 6:30am – Way Seeking Mind Talk following a brief period of zazen- Lucy Turner will give a WSM talk. In person and online.
Please use this link to join. If asked for a password use 034965
Check in next week for the next Dharma Tea at Two.
Monday November 11, 2024 6-7pm – ABZS Book Club “Branching Streams Flow on in Darkness”. online only Use this link to join . If asked for password use 102328
To join us via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 149227
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 Morning Practice
40 minute period of Zazen
Short Morning Service –to include the Sandokai in English
Morning greetings
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050
Tonight we will have a short service followed by two periods of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between). We will have our monthly pass the feather sharing and conclude by chanting the refuges in Pali. Please feel welcome to stay on zoom if you are able to share greetings with the sangha.
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 (text available at highlighted links)
Greeting by the Kokyo
The Harmony of Difference and Sameness
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Pass the feather
Wednesday November 6, 2024 6:30am – Way Seeking Mind Talk following a brief period of zazen- Shinren Mark Stone will give a WSM talk.
To join use this link. If asked for a password use 034965
We don’t have a presenter for today for Dharma Tea at Two pm. Please enjoy the beauty of the trees today and make sure to vote. “The legislatures that create National, State and Local budgets are responsible for reflecting our shared moral and ethical values in what money is spent on. Be a part of the process and let’s create together a more compassionate response to the world” Inryū Sensei
Little Girl Cat says “Vote” watcha waiting for…?
On November 2nd 2024, All Beings Zen Sangha had its annual Sejiki Ceremony, in which we recited names of people, animals, etc. that have passed away within the past year, while having a chance to share how they have impacted our own lives or the ones around us. We honored and gave nourishment to them as well as all beings seen and unseen, here and gone, far and near, so that they may be satisfied and have all the conditions to thrive in this life and the next. Very grateful to our Sangha members who once again hosted this event at their beautiful residence, where we all shared heart-felt company and yummy sweets-n-treats afterward.
