Just wanted to let everyone know that we have some events coming up this fall, all worth your time. I’ve listed them out here but they’ll remain under Fall 2016 Events on the site as well. If you have any questions, please send Shinren Mark Stone an e-mail. Many thanks, hope to see you soon, and have a cup of tea.
Sam
These are on a Thursday evening at 7 pm at the All Beings Zendo, unless otherwise noted:
September 15th —Rev. Inryu talk on “The Bodhisattvas All Around Us”
October 6th — Way Seeking Mind Talk, Shinren Mark
October 27th —Way Seeking Mind Talk, Jirin Colleen
October 30th —Sunday morning 8am book discussion tea—“One Bird, One Stone”
November 5th — One Day Meditation Retreat at Woodburn Hill Farm
November 17th —Dharma talk, R. Liam Ōshin Jennings
November 20th—Sunday morning 8am—Dharma talk, Konin Melissa Cardenas
December 8th — Practice Discussion: “Reflections on a Week at Tassajara” Eric Jonas
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 March 12, 2022 2pm Eastern Please use this link to join. If asked for a password use 410456
Rev. Norman Fischer, Roshi will visit ABZS to talk about his new book ‘When You Greet Me I Bow; Notes and Reflections of a life in Zen”. Please use this link to join. Zoketsu Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest in the Suzuki Roshi lineage family. He was a resident priest at the San Francisco Zen Center for many years, and served as Co-Abbot from 1995-2000, when he founded the Everyday Zen Foundation. His latest poetry collections are The Museum of Capitalism (2021) and Selected Poems 1980-2013 (2022); his latest Buddhist title is When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. He lives on the Northern California coast with his wife Kathie, also a Zen Buddhist priest.
Please use this link to join. If asked for a password use 410456
*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
**Donations are appreciated as ABZS will be providing Rev. Fischer with an honorarium for joining us**
Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for March 8, 2022. Use this link to join. 2-2:45 pm Eastern.
Mural in Cambridge Maryland
Inryū Sensei will present some art and information about Harriet Tubman in honor of both the recent Black History Month and the current Women’s History Month. The first 5 minutes we share silence to drink tea together.
The European Buddhist Union is deeply concerned and saddened by the war in Ukraine. We hope that hostilities will end soon and a peaceful solution to the crisis will be found; war has a destructive effect on all of us. Especially in this century, it is the task of all of us to become one big human family on this planet, supporting and respecting each other. Diplomatic dialogue, wisdom and compassion must take precedence over weapons and aggression.
The European Buddhist Union appeals to all its members and supporters to organize a special meditation and prayer session Friday at 3PM EST to promote a sense of peace, togetherness and awareness — each and everyone can meditate for themselves at this time, we will all be connected through practice.
A shared moment of practice is very important in the face of the current crisis, to alleviate the suffering in ourselves and others, and so that wars like the one against Ukraine do not happen. This beautiful world should not be stained with blood, but adorned with the flower of love, which is the real and better task of human beings.
— The European Buddhist Union, March 1, 2022.
Join the Chapel Hill Zen Center Zoom Zendo at 3PM following our ongoing, Friday afternoon zazen at 1PM.
Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for March 1, 2022. Use this link to join. If asked use this password 784873
Inryū Sensei will show photographs and talk about her recent trip to Dragons Leap Temple to assist with a Priest Ordination 2-2:45 pm Eastern. The first 5 minutes we share silence to drink tea together.
Photo by Barbara Wenger
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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 with chants in a number of languages: Japanese, Chinese, English followed by two periods of Zazen. 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 641260
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 Chinese
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minute Kinhin (slow walking) or stretch
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Refuges in Pali
Post service check in (please feel welcome to stay or depart as your schedule requires)
Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for February 22, 2022. Use this link to join. If asked use this password 784873
Dairyū Michael Wenger, Roshi will join All Beings Zen Sangha for our weekly tea. Bring your curiosity and questions for the Great Dragon. 2-2:45 pm Eastern. The first 5 minutes we share silence to drink tea together.
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Dear SZBA Members,The SZBA Board of Directors and the DEIA Committee are pleased to announce the establishment and first round of scholarship opportunities available to BIPOC members and practitioners. The description of the fund is as follows: The Soto Zen Buddhist Association recognizes that there are inequities in access to Zen practice due to systemic racism. To make reparations for these inequities, the SZBA has formed a scholarship fund to begin to redistribute economic resources to BIPOC Soto Zen practitioners. BIPOC SZBA members, and BIPOC students of SZBA members will be invited annually to apply for funds in the first quarter of each year. To accommodate needs that may arise throughout the year, applications will be accepted and reviewed as needed. Applicants are welcome to apply for funds to support their Zen practice including events, classes, conferences, retreats, and travel costs. If you are a BIPOC member of the SZBA, you may apply for funding beginning today and ending March 31, 2022. We ask that you share this message with your students and sangha members as well. This year, we have $4,000 available to BIPOC members and encourage you to apply for grants that do not exceed $350 so that we are able support as many BIPOC members and their BIPOC students as possible. Understanding that needs and opportunities may arise throughout the year, we are reserving some of this money for applications received later in the year. To apply, please send your application to info@szba.org by March 31, 2022. With palms pressed, The SZBA Board of Directors and the SZBA DEIA Committee
Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for February 15, 2022
Ayesha Ali will join All Beings Zen Sangha as a guest speaker on the topic of ‘Black History and Meditation”.Ayesha Ali is a storyteller, poet, writer, and mindfulness teacher who believes that meditation practices can confront the delusion of separation that hinders from connecting to themselves and hinders the ability of connection between all peoples. She has shared the liberation to be found in mindfulness to various organizations dealing with domestic violence. She is one of the founders of the Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community. She has been engaged in mindfulness practice and work for over twenty years. She is an Affiliate Teacher at the Insight Community of Washington DC and facilitates the Heartwidth Sangha, an all-inclusive community as well as teaching at Insight on the Inside. She is also a co-teacher for Mighty Real, a sangha for LGBTQI
Month. Use this link to join. If asked use this password 784873
Tuesday Dharma Tea at Two pm for February 8, 2022. Use this link to join. If asked use this password 784873
E. Ethelbert Miller will join ABZS for a remembrance and talk about his interview with Buddhist Author and Teacher Charles Johnson. You can read the interview by going to this link.
E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist. He is the author of two memoirs and several books of poetry. For 17 years Miller served as the editor of Poet Lore, the oldest poetry magazine published in the United States. He hosts the WPFW morning radio show On the Margin with E. Ethelbert Miller and hosts and produces The Scholars on UDC-TV which received a 2020 Telly Award. Miller’s memoir Fathering Words: The Making of An African American Writer (St. Martin’s Press, 2000) was selected by the DC WE READ for its one book, one city program sponsored by the D.C. Public Libraries. He was also awarded the 2019 Literary Award for poetry by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for his book If God Invented Baseball. Most recently, Miller received a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a congressional award from Congressman Jamie Raskin in recognition of his literary activism. Miller’s latest book is When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories (City Point Press, 2021).
*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
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