The Zen of Screens – a workshop September 24th, 8am-9:30am
Join us for this exploration of the way in which the time we spend looking and interacting with Screens (smartphones, computers, etc.) has an impact on body, mind and soul.
“Our growing use of screens (smartphones, computers, etc.) raises questions for each of us: What is our relationship with our screens? How do screens make us more and less connected? How do they bear on our spiritual journey?
8am-9:30am Please RSVP: inryu@allbeingszen.org
Here is a basic outline of our upcoming event
Program for “The Zen of Screens”
Ten-minute meditation
Motivation for workshop—Surveys show that adults think they spend two hours of screen time per day, but they actually spend four hours. The dominance of screens in our life raises new questions: What is our relationship with your screens? How do screens make us more or less connected? How do they bear on our spiritual journeys?
Discussion 1—Each participant can say a few words on screens in their life.
Exercise 1—Each participant spends 10 mindful minutes on their screen doing their most common activities, followed by a 10 minute body scan meditation. Discussion.
Discussion 2—Most folks feel they are too caught up in screens, and their posture and thinking reflect excessive use. What is it that explains our excessive use? Screens could be another way for us to avoid our discomfort and naturally leads to consideration of the four noble truths.
Discussion 3
o Skillful screen use—Practical tips for how we use screens eg clean up apps, keep screen in different room…
o Skillful screen time— Record your screen time; hide digital distractions; digital fasting.
Final discussion
Shinren Mark Stone will help us develop our awareness of the influence of screens on body, mind and soul. Bring your favorite device!”
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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Saturday September 10, 2022:Book Discussion Join All Beings Zen Sangha for a book discussion of the “Shamanic Bones of Zen” written by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel. 2pm- 3pm Eastern time (online only). Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 635618
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 short service in Spanish followed by one period of Zazen and a Full Moon Ceremony. We will close by chanting the Refuges in Pali. If you would like stay after refuges and do a welcome and check-in please do.
If you are asked for a password please use this 837695
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.
Order of Service
Greeting by the Kokyo
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo
Heart Sutra in Spanish
25 Minute Zazen Period
Cuatro Votos Four Great Vows
5 Minutes Kinhin
Full Moon Ceremony – Call and Response
Refuges in Pali
Post service check in (please feel welcome to stay or depart as your schedule requires)
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo
KAN ZEON
NA MU BUTSU
YO BUTSU U IN
YO BUTSU U EN
BUP PO SO EN
JO RAKU GA JO
CHO NEN KANZEON
BO NEN KANZEON
NEN NEN JU SHIN KI
NEN NEN FU RI SHIN
➞Sutra del Corazón de la Perfecta Sabidurí➚aa➘a➞āāā
⨀ Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva
a través de la práctica profunda de Prajna Paramita ⨀
Claramente vio que los cinco agregados son vacío y gracias a esta comprensión liberó todo el sufrimiento.
Sariputra la forma no es diferente del vacío,
vacío no es diferente de la forma.
La forma en sí misma es vacío,
vacío en sí mismo es forma.
Las sensaciones, percepciones, formaciones mentales
y la conciencia son igualmente vacío.
Sariputra todos los fenómenos son vacío.
No aparecen ni desaparecen,
no son puros ni impuros,
no crecen ni disminuyen.
Debido al vacío no hay forma ni sensación,
ni percepción, ni formación mental, ni conciencia;
Ni ojos, ni oídos, ni nariz, ni lengua, ni cuerpo, ni mente;
Ni vista, ni sonido, ni olor, ni gusto, ni tacto, ni objetos mentales;
ni ámbitos sensoriales ni ámbito de la conciencia.
No hay ignorancia ni extinción de la ignorancia
ni vejez y muerte ni extinción de la vejez y de la muerte
ni sufrimiento ni causa ni liberación
ni vía que conduzca a la liberación del sufrimiento
ni conocimiento ni obtención.
Sin nada que obtener, el bodhisattva confía en
Prajna Paramita ⨀ y así la mente está libre de obstáculos.
Sin obstáculos no hay miedo.
Alejado de las visiones erróneas se realiza el Nirvana.
Todos los budas del pasado, presente y futuro confían
en Prajna Paramita ⨀ por lo cual obtienen el perfecto, completo, insuperable despertar.
Por lo tanto, Prajna Paramita ⨀ es el mantra resplandeciente,
el mantra milagroso, el supremo mantra, el mantra incomparable, aquel que extingue todo sufrimiento y es verdadero, no falso.
Proclamamos el mantra Prajna Paramita que dice:
GATE GATE ⨀ PARAGATE ⨀ PARASAMGATE, BODHI SVAHA ∅
El cuerpo de Buddha impregna todos los mundos del Dharma, se manifiesta en todas partes ante todos los seres. Ya hemos recitado el Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo y El Sutra del Corazón de la Perfecta Sabiduría, con reverencia ofrecemos los méritos generados por esta practica a: ✪
Nuestro Gran Maestro Original de la Enseñanza, el Buda Shakyamuni ✪
Nuestro primer ancestro en China, Gran Maestro Bodhidharma; ✪
Nuestro primer ancestro en Japón, Gran Maestro Eihei Dogen; ✪
Nuestro primer ancestro en las Americas, Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki ✪
Nuestro primer Maestro Guia, Dairyu Michael Wenger ✪
Y todos los ancestros femeninos a travesa de la historia cuyos nombres se se han olvidado o dejados sin decir. ✪
Ofrecemos el merito de nuestra practica a George Floyd, Gianna Floyd, Philonise Floyd y a toda la familia Floyd y todos aquellos que sufren a diario por los efectos del racismo sistemico y la violencia en nuestra sociedad. ✪
Tambien ofrecemos el merito de nuestra practica a todos aquellos sufriendo por los efectos de la pandemia del Coronavirus ✪
Que con todos los seres nos libremos del sufrimiento y disfrutemos de la felicidad.
Que nuestros votos sinceros para lograr el Camino del Buda se realicen plenamente juntos. ➚➘➞ ✪
Tuesday Dharma Tea: Inryu Sensei will offer information and lead a discussion about the Mudra’s (gestures) we commonly use in the zendo during practice. Use this link to join. if asked for a password use 003827.
Tonight we will have a short service following by two periods of Zazen with a short period of walking meditation in between the zazen periods. Will we have our first Thursdays pass the feather sharing and close with chanting the refuges.
Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.
If you are asked for a password please use this 837695
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
All Buddhas Chant
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
First Thursdays Feather Passing
Refuges in Pali
THE FOUR GREAT VOWS
Beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma Gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
Buddha’s way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.
Just a reminder that there is an opportunity to do some zen sewing tomorrow Sunday August 28th from 1-4pm. Seido is making good progress on his Okesa each day (photo below by Paula Chaplis). Suzanne and Paula have RSVP’d for tomorrow to work on Rakusu sewing. We will have the zoom link on in case those far afield would like to sew with us or just say hello.
Lots yet to do for Seido’s ordination sewing – so feel welcome to drop by and add a few stitches on his Okesa.
Use this link to join via the cloud zendo. If asked for a password use 156079
Tonight we will have a short service following by two periods of Zazen with a short period of walking meditation in between the zazen periods. Will we close with chanting the refuges. You are welcome to stay online following the chanting of the refuges to share greetings with the sangha.
Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.
If you are asked for a password please use this 837695
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 Chinese
All Buddhas Chant
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Refuges in Pali
THE FOUR GREAT VOWS
Beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma Gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
Buddha’s way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.
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 follow by a period of zazen. We will also have our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony after Zazen and close by chanting the Refuges.
If you are asked for a password please use this 169513
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 in Spanish and English
Heart Sutra in English
30 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Enmei 9 times
The Loving Kindness Sutra
Dedication of Merit
All Buddhas Chant
Refuges in Pali
Heart Sutra in English
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva,
when deeply practicing prajña paramita,
clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty
and thus relieved all suffering.
Shariputra,
form does not differ from emptiness,
emptiness does not differ from form.
Form itself is emptiness,
emptiness itself form.
Sensations, perceptions, formations,
and consciousness are also like this.
Shariputra,
all dharmas are marked by emptiness;
they neither arise nor cease,
are neither defiled nor pure,
neither increase nor decrease.
Therefore, given emptiness, there is
no form, no sensation, no perception,
no formation no consciousness;
no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind;
no sight, no sound, no smell, no taste,
no touch, no object of mind;
no realm of sight… no realm of mind consciousness
There is neither ignorance nor extinction of ignorance…
neither old age and death,
nor extinction of old age and death;
no suffering, no cause, no cessation, no path;
no knowledge and no attainment.
With nothing to attain,
a bodhisattva relies on prajña paramita,
and thus the mind is without hindrance.
Without hindrance, there is no fear.
Far beyond all inverted views, one realizes nirvana.
All buddhas of past, present, and future
rely on prajña paramita and thereby attain
unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment.
Therefore, know the prajña paramita ⨀ as
the great miraculous mantra,
the great bright mantra,
the supreme mantra,
the incomparable mantra,
which removes all suffering
and is true, not false.
Therefore we proclaim the prajña paramita mantra,
the mantra that says:
“Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.”
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo X 9
KAN ZEON
NA MU BUTSU
YO BUTSU U IN
YO BUTSU U EN
BUP PO SO EN
JO RAKU GA JO
CHO NEN KANZEON
BO NEN KANZEON
NEN NEN JU SHIN KI
NEN NEN FU RI SHIN
Loving Kindness Meditation
This is what should be accomplished by the one who is wise,
Who seeks the good and has obtained peace:
Let one be strenuous, upright and sincere,
WIthout pride, easily contented and joyous.
Let one not be submerged by the things of the world.
Let one not take upon one’s self the burden of riches.
Let one’s senses be controlled.
Let one be wise, but not puffed up: and
Let one not desire great possessions even for one’s family.
Let one do nothing that is mean or that the wise would reprove
May all beings be happy.
May they be joyous and live in safety.
All living beings, whether weak or strong,
In high or middle or low realms of existence,
Small or great, visible or invisible,
Near or far, born or to be born,
May all beings be happy.
Let no one deceive another, nor despise any being in any state;
Let none by anger or hatred wish harm to another.
Even as a mother at the risk of her life
Watches over and protects her only child,
So with a boundless mind should one cherish all living things,
Suffusing love over the entire world,
Above, below and all around without limit;
So let one cultivate an infinite good will toward the whole world.
Standing or walking, sitting or lying down,
During all one’s waking hours
Let one practice the way with gratitude.
Not holding to fixed views,
Endowed with insight,
Freed from sense appetites,
One who achieves the way
Will be freed from the duality of birth and death.
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 short service in Spanish followed by one period of Zazen and a Full Moon Ceremony. We will close by chanting the Refuges in Pali. If you would like stay after refuges and do a welcome and check-in please do.
If you are asked for a password please use this 169513
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.
Order of Service
Greeting by the Kokyo
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo
Heart Sutra in Spanish
25 Minute Zazen Period
Cuatro Votos Four Great Vows
Full Moon Ceremony – Call and Response
Refuges in Pali
Post service check in (please feel welcome to stay or depart as your schedule requires)
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo
KAN ZEON
NA MU BUTSU
YO BUTSU U IN
YO BUTSU U EN
BUP PO SO EN
JO RAKU GA JO
CHO NEN KANZEON
BO NEN KANZEON
NEN NEN JU SHIN KI
NEN NEN FU RI SHIN
➞Sutra del Corazón de la Perfecta Sabidurí➚aa➘a➞āāā
⨀ Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva
a través de la práctica profunda de Prajna Paramita ⨀
Claramente vio que los cinco agregados son vacío y gracias a esta comprensión liberó todo el sufrimiento.
Sariputra la forma no es diferente del vacío,
vacío no es diferente de la forma.
La forma en sí misma es vacío,
vacío en sí mismo es forma.
Las sensaciones, percepciones, formaciones mentales
y la conciencia son igualmente vacío.
Sariputra todos los fenómenos son vacío.
No aparecen ni desaparecen,
no son puros ni impuros,
no crecen ni disminuyen.
Debido al vacío no hay forma ni sensación,
ni percepción, ni formación mental, ni conciencia;
Ni ojos, ni oídos, ni nariz, ni lengua, ni cuerpo, ni mente;
Ni vista, ni sonido, ni olor, ni gusto, ni tacto, ni objetos mentales;
ni ámbitos sensoriales ni ámbito de la conciencia.
No hay ignorancia ni extinción de la ignorancia
ni vejez y muerte ni extinción de la vejez y de la muerte
ni sufrimiento ni causa ni liberación
ni vía que conduzca a la liberación del sufrimiento
ni conocimiento ni obtención.
Sin nada que obtener, el bodhisattva confía en
Prajna Paramita ⨀ y así la mente está libre de obstáculos.
Sin obstáculos no hay miedo.
Alejado de las visiones erróneas se realiza el Nirvana.
Todos los budas del pasado, presente y futuro confían
en Prajna Paramita ⨀ por lo cual obtienen el perfecto, completo, insuperable despertar.
Por lo tanto, Prajna Paramita ⨀ es el mantra resplandeciente,
el mantra milagroso, el supremo mantra, el mantra incomparable, aquel que extingue todo sufrimiento y es verdadero, no falso.
Proclamamos el mantra Prajna Paramita que dice:
GATE GATE ⨀ PARAGATE ⨀ PARASAMGATE, BODHI SVAHA ∅
El cuerpo de Buddha impregna todos los mundos del Dharma, se manifiesta en todas partes ante todos los seres. Ya hemos recitado el Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo y El Sutra del Corazón de la Perfecta Sabiduría, con reverencia ofrecemos los méritos generados por esta practica a: ✪
Nuestro Gran Maestro Original de la Enseñanza, el Buda Shakyamuni ✪
Nuestro primer ancestro en China, Gran Maestro Bodhidharma; ✪
Nuestro primer ancestro en Japón, Gran Maestro Eihei Dogen; ✪
Nuestro primer ancestro en las Americas, Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki ✪
Nuestro primer Maestro Guia, Dairyu Michael Wenger ✪
Y todos los ancestros femeninos a travesa de la historia cuyos nombres se se han olvidado o dejados sin decir. ✪
Ofrecemos el merito de nuestra practica a George Floyd, Gianna Floyd, Philonise Floyd y a toda la familia Floyd y todos aquellos que sufren a diario por los efectos del racismo sistemico y la violencia en nuestra sociedad. ✪
Tambien ofrecemos el merito de nuestra practica a todos aquellos sufriendo por los efectos de la pandemia del Coronavirus ✪
Que con todos los seres nos libremos del sufrimiento y disfrutemos de la felicidad.
Que nuestros votos sinceros para lograr el Camino del Buda se realicen plenamente juntos. ➚➘➞ ✪
Tonight we will have a short service following by two periods of Zazen. Following the zazen we will have our monthly “Pass the Feather” sharing and conclude with chanting the refuges.
Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.
If you are asked for a password please use this 169513
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
All Buddhas Chant
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Pass the feather
Refuges in Pali
THE FOUR GREAT VOWS
Beings are numberless; I vow to save them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them.
Dharma Gates are boundless; I vow to enter them.
Buddha’s way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it.
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo
KAN ZEON
NA MU BUTSU
YO BUTSU U IN
YO BUTSU U EN
BUP PO SO EN
JO RAKU GA JO
CHO NEN KANZEON
BO NEN KANZEON
NEN NEN JU SHIN KI
NEN NEN FU RI SHIN
Heart of Great Perfect Wisdom Sutra
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva,
when deeply practicing prajña paramita,⨀
clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty
and thus relieved all suffering.
Shariputra,
form does not differ from emptiness,
emptiness does not differ from form.
Form itself is emptiness,
emptiness itself form.
Sensations, perceptions, formations,
and consciousness are also like this.
Shariputra,
all dharmas are marked by emptiness;
they neither arise nor cease,
are neither defiled nor pure,
neither increase nor decrease.
Therefore, given emptiness, there is
no form, no sensation, no perception,
no formation no consciousness;
no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind;
no sight, no sound, no smell, no taste,
no touch, no object of mind;
no realm of sight… no realm of mind consciousness
There is neither ignorance nor extinction of ignorance…
neither old age and death,
nor extinction of old age and death;
no suffering, no cause, no cessation, no path;
no knowledge and no attainment.
With nothing to attain,
a bodhisattva relies on prajña paramita,⨀
and thus the mind is without hindrance.
Without hindrance, there is no fear.
Far beyond all inverted views, one realizes nirvana.
All buddhas of past, present, and future
rely on prajña paramita ⨀ and thereby attain
unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment.
Therefore, know the prajña paramita ⨀ as
the great miraculous mantra,
the great bright mantra,
the supreme mantra,
the incomparable mantra,
which removes all suffering
and is true, not false.
Therefore we proclaim the prajña paramita ⨀mantra,,
Join us for this exploration of the way in which the time we spend looking and interacting with Screens (smartphones, computers, etc.) has an impact on body, mind and soul.
