All Beings Zen Sangha is announcing a call to artists for the 2025 Sangha calendar project.
Submissions are now being accepted for drawings, paintings, photography, poetry, brief writings, and other forms in digital format.
Please submit up to three works for consideration via e-mail to Rev. Inryū Sensei at inryu@allbeingszen.org and to John Flanagan at emailjohnf@gmail.com.
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https://www.allbeingszen.org/
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
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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
All Beings Zen Sangha Zen Meditation Retreat Schedule 10am-4pm. In person and online. To join via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 204879
10:00 Welcome and explanation of the Jundo and then people will begin the first period of Zazen
10:10am Robe Chant (lead by Kokyo) 40 minute peirod of Zazen
10:50am End of Zazen – beginning of Work Practice
Work Practice leader will assign tasks
12:00pm End of Work Practice/return to Zendo for Lunch
12:15am Oryoki instruction
12:30pm Lunch –Formal Oryoki
1:30pm Lunch clean up/break
1:40pm Outdoor walk (weather permiting) or Dharma study
2:15 Tea and Cookies/Dharma Discussion
3:10pm Kinhin (slow walking meditation)
3:20pm 30 minute period of Zazen
3:50pm Closing Chant
4:00 End of Zazenkai
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050
Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between) and then our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony. We will 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
Greeting by the Kokyo
Evening Bell Chant
Harmony of Difference and Equality
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony
Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)
Monday January 13th, 2025 6-7pm – ABZS Book Club – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche,
“In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying” online only Use this link to join If asked for a passcode use 374250
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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
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). 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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Saturday December 21 Winter Solstice Event 7pm Eastern. To join use this link. If asked for a password use 124425.
Photo by Zen’etsu
Join the members of the All Beings Zen Sangha to greet the Solstice and the New Year with chanting 108 times the Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo. Each recitation will include the big bell and some members offering full prostrations. All are welcome.
Happy Solstice to planet Earth and all its residents. For the next half year, daylight gets longer north of the Equator and shorter south of the Equator. Confirming that yes, contrary to what many people think, days get **longer** in the Winter and **shorter** in the Summer.
To join us via zoom use this link to join. If asked for a password use 463913
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
Morning greetings
Saturday December 14, 2024 11am – Shuso Hossen Ceremony. ABZS 2024 Fall Shuso (head student) Seiryū Paula Chiplis receives the assemble sangha’s questions in a traditional formal ceremony marking the end of their term in the Shuso position. In person and online
