All Beings Zen Sangha

July 2018 Events

  • July 14th – 8am- 9:30am Revisiting Keizan Study and Tea
  • July 14th – 1pm -3:30pm  Guest Teacher Daigan Gaither to offer half day workshop on “Practicing with Sexual Energy: Presence, Precepts and Power”
  • July 16th – ABZS Board of Directors Meeting 6pm
  • July 19th – Dharma Talk by guest teacher Marcia Lieberman
  • July 21 – Half Day Workshop with Marcia Lieberman on home altars: care form history. Chidening. Flower arranging in zen tradition.
  • July 26 – Dharma Talk by guest teacher Marcia Lieberman
  • July 28 – Half Day Workshop with Marcia Lieberman on Taste of ritual: way of tea and oriyoki—forms history the role of host and guest 

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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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  • Morning Practice for October 3, 2025 6:30am Eastern

    Morning Practice for October 3, 2025 6:30am Eastern

    Use this link to join. If asked use this password 613535

    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.

    Robe Chant

    40 minute period of Zazen

    Four Great Vows

    Morning Service

    Morning Greetings

  • Wonderful Foraging Workshop with Sven Andes last Saturday September 27, 2025

    Wonderful Foraging Workshop with Sven Andes last Saturday September 27, 2025

    Sven offered ABZS members information on responsible foraging practices. He shared how to identify three types of Fungi (Turkey Feather, Mitaki and Chicken of the Woods. We then enjoy a tea, a bowl of stew and a rice dish. Each one including one of the mushrooms in the recipe.

    “Nature is bountiful if we take care of it! Come learn about the wonderful things we can forage in nature from the DMV area. The workshop is an introduction to foraging with respect to the land, including how we can build understanding of our surrounding environment and cultivate positive relationships with land through the art of foraging.” Sven Andes

  • Evening Practice and Dharma Talk for September 25, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Evening Practice and Dharma Talk for September 25, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Here is the link to the recording of this talk

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    Photography by Brian Barger

    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 a Dharma Talk by Rev. Inryū Sensei. 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

    Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

    Heart Sutra in Japanese

    25 Minute Zazen Period

    5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

    Dharma Talk

    Refuges in Pali

  • Book Group for Tuesday September 23, 2025 7pm Eastern. “The Years of Rice and Salt”

    Book Group for Tuesday September 23, 2025 7pm Eastern. “The Years of Rice and Salt”

    Monday September 23, 2025 6pm — The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

    Use this link to join. If asked use this password 613535

    The Years of Rice and Salt is an Alternate History novel by writer Kim Stanley Robinson. The story spans hundreds of years, from the army of the Muslim conqueror Timur to the 21st century. The novel depicts world history in an alternate timeline where the Black

  • Dharma Tea on Tuesday for September 23, 2025 2-2:45pm Eastern “Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors”

    Dharma Tea on Tuesday for September 23, 2025 2-2:45pm Eastern “Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors”

    Tuesday, September 23: Tuesday Tea at 2pm “Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors: Introduction and Comments” – led by Seiryū Paula

    Use this link to join. If asked use this password 613535

    Photo by Seiryū Paula

  • Evening Practice for September 18, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Use this link to join. If asked use this password 613535

    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

    Harmony of Difference and Equality

    25 Minute Zazen Period

    5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

    Our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony

    Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

    Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)

  • Evening Practice for September 11, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Thursday September 11 , 2025 7- 8:15pm Evening Zazen – One period of zazen. We will have our Shuso Entering Ceremony. In person and online -Inryū Sensei will offer information and encouragement as we enter our Fall Practice Period.

    To join online use this link. If asked for a password use 613535

    Fall 2025 Practice Period Shuso Zen’etsu Clay Crowell

  • Evening Practice for August 28, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 613535

    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 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

    Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

    Heart Sutra in English

    25 Minute Zazen Period

    5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

    25 Minute Zazen Period

    Refuges in Pali

  • Zen Sewing for August 24, 2025 10am-12noon Eastern

    Zen Sewing for August 24, 2025 10am-12noon Eastern

    In person Rakusu sewing class today 10-12noon

  • Evening Practice for August 21, 2025 7pm Eastern

    Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 480731

    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

    Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

    Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)