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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Tuesday October 8, 2024 2-2:45pm – Tuesday Tea at Two – Inryū Sensei will lead a conversation about Zen Practice as the season changes. Please join with your questions or insights for this conversation. As always we will begin with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking together and close with the Four Great Vows. Online only. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787
Tuesday October 1, 2024 2:00-2:45 Tuesday Dharma Tea – Zen’etsu Clay Crowell will lead a Tuesday Tea discussion on the background and context of the Sandokai. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787
Monday Sept 30, 2024 6-7pm Dharma Book Club online only. “The Sound of a Snail Eating” by Elizabeth Tova Bailey. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 572905
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 (text available at highlighted links)
Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program. Tonight we will have a short service before one period of Zazen. We will then have our monthly Wellbeing Service and the chanting of the refuges. Greetings and announcements
If you are asked for a password please use this 522050
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
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.
Please feel welcome to join a short period of Zazen beginning at 2pm followed by our Fall Practice Period Shuso Entering Ceremony. Our Shuso candidate for the Fall Ango (period of peaceful dwelling) is Seiryů Paula Chiplis.
Please offer your good wishes for her entering into this role of support to the ABZ Sangha.
I hope this email finds you well this cool mid September morning.
As Benji, I will be the middle-man to help you connect with Sangha, answer questions about the Fall schedule, and arrange times for you to meet with Inryū Sensei and Seiryū Paula! Inryū Sensei will be accepting Dokusan meetings all Ango, which gives the opportunity to have private one-on-one conversations with our Dharma teacher. Also, as Seiryū will be our head student, it is also customary and encouraged to meet and schedule a casual sit-down tea with her. These meetings with our Guiding Teacher and Shuso, I find, can help us enter the stream of practice that is reciprocal in nourishment — a way to build relationship and also inquire about our Zen Practice / Practice Period Theme: Sandokai-The Harmony of Difference and Sameness.
September 15th is approaching us this coming Sunday, which will commence the beginning of our Fall Ango! Seiryū Paula Chiplis will serve as the 2024 Fall Practice Period Ango’s Shuso (Head Student) and I, Zen’etsu, will be her Benji (Shuso’s assistant / coordinator). So! Here I am coordinating this practice period full of wonderful happenings that I am so excited to share with you all.
As you may know from past Ango’s, we will also start to have Way Seeking Mind Talks on Monday/Wednesday/Friday mornings (after a shorter period of zazen), as well as Tuesday Tea Talks at 2pm.
Way Seeking Mind talks can be also understood as Way ‘Finding’ Talks! These are talks where we get to speak about how/when our experiences in our lives ~woke us up~, and how we found our Zen practice way-back-when or maybe even within this year.
Tuesday Dharma Tea Talks are a bit more casual and can also be creative! On Tuesday’s, we convene on zoom to hear the speaker of the week present a Buddhist-related topic that interests them. You would provide a 20 minute presentation on the topic and allow another 20 minutes for open discussion. Super interesting, but also grounding to have tea in the afternoon with Sangha.
To give you a little more outlook on this 3-month journey, this Ango will include a 7 Day Sesshin (meditation retreat) in December 1-8 for Rohatsu Observance, Dharma Movie Nights, Full and Half Day Zazenkais (day retreats) in our Urban Zendo, guest speakers throughout the Ango, and more — full schedule on the website! Check the web site regularly for schedule updates.
I would kindly like you to consider a time throughout these 3 months (September 15-December 21) to do a Way Seeking Mind Talk and also a Tuesday-Tea-Talk! Please email me at zenjoyclay@gmail or text/call me at 501-289-0897 so that I can put it on our schedule.
Lastly, I want to express my gratitude to everyone in this Sangha, as each year we all co-create this feeling of wholeness in these 3-months of “calm-abiding.” Thank you to our teacher, Inryū Sensei, for guiding us into these seasonal transitions with wisdom and ease. I look forward to yet again taking the backward step inward, along with the creatures of this land .. taking refuge in this dedicated time.
If your space allows, please join in entering this Fall Practice Period with our Shuso Entering Ceremony this coming Sunday 9/15 at 2pm EST in person and online. Join with this link.
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)
