Dharma Tea lead by Sangha member Inryū Sensei on the topic of ““How has a piece of art moved you”?  Many of us have experienced a opening or awakening when viewing a piece of art.  Please bring an image and
story of the artwork and its impact on you to share with those assembled.”.

Use this link to join us in our cloud zendo today.  If asked for a password use 512621.

First 5 minutes silent tea drinking followed by presentation by Inryū and discussion.  We conclude at 2:45pm EDT

Dharma Tea lead by Sangha member Alex Langlinais on the topic of “Our experience of the world is built by our minds”.

Use this link to join us in our cloud zendo today.  If asked for a password use 512621.

Here is an article that Alex offers as interesting reading on the topic.

First 5 minutes silent tea drinking followed by presentation by Alex and discussion.  We conclude at 2:45pm EDT

Join All Beings Zen Sangha for a day of Zazen.  We will have a few people in the urban zendo and others joining via the cloud zendo.

Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 189611

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.

8am    Robe Chant & and start of Zazen

8:30 Service

8:40am Soji (Temple Cleaning)

9:15  Zazen

9:45  Kinhin (slow walking)

10:25  Outside Kinhin (faster pace and litter clean up)

11:00  Indoor Kinhin (slow walking)

11:10  Dharma Talk

12 – 1  Lunch Break

1:00 Zazen

1:30  Kinhin

1:40  Zazen

2:10  Kinhin

2:20 Zazen

2:50  Closing & Chanting of Refuges

 

Order of Service

Robe Chant before zazen.

Forty minute period of zazen

After zazen: Four Great Vows

Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom

Heart Sutra in English

Shosaimyo Kichijo Dharani (Dharani for avoiding calamity) chanted 3 times

If your schedule allows please stay on the zoom call to do a brief check-in after the service is concluded.

ROBE CHANT

DAI SAI GE DA PU KU

MUSO FUKU DEN E

HI BU NYORAI KYO

KO DO SHOSHU JO

Great robe of liberation

Field far beyond form and emptiness

Wearing the Tathagata’s teaching

Saving all beings.

After Zazen

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.

After Koan reading

Dharana for avoiding calamity

Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom

Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom, the lovely, the holy.

The Perfection of Wisdom gives light. Unstained, the entire

world cannot stain her. She is the source of light, and from

everyone in the triple world she removes darkness.

Most excellent are her works. She brings light so that all

fear and distress may be forsaken, and disperses the gloom

and darkness of delusion. She herself is an organ of vision.

She has a clear knowledge of the own-being of all dharmas,

for she does not stray away from it. The Perfection of Wisdom

of the Buddhas sets in motion the Wheel of Dharma.

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,

the mantra that says:

“Gate Gate ⨀ Paragate ⨀ Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.” ∅

Shosaimyo Kichijo Dharani

(Auspicious Dharani or Spell For Averting Calamity)

NO MO SAN MAN DA

MOTO NAN

OHA RA CHI KOTO SHA

SONO NAN TO JI TO

EN GYA GYA

GYA KI GYA KI

UN NUN SHIFU RA SHIFU RA

HARA SHIFU RA HARA SHIFU RA

CHISHU SA CHISHU SA

CHISHU RI CHISHU RI

SOHA JA SOHA JA

SEN CHI GYA

SHIRI EI SO MO KO

All Buddhas

All Buddhas, ten directions,

Three times

All Honored Ones, Bodhisattvas-Mahasattvas

Wisdom beyond wisdom

Maha Prajna Paramita

 

 

 

Dharma Tea on Tuesday at Two pm EDT July 20th, 2021.  Join All Beings Zen Sangha for 45 minutes.  Todays discuss the topic is “Working with ones hands as a contemplative practice”.  This tea will be lead by the ABZS guiding teacher Sensei Inryū Poncé-Barger.     For the first 5 minutes we can enjoy silent tea drinking together.   All are welcome!  Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 512621

Dharma Tea on Tuesday at Two pm EDT July 13th, 2021.  Join All Beings Zen Sangha for 45 minutes for todays discuss the topic of “Intention”.  We will be lead by our board ABZS President and former (2018) Shuso Shinren (Careful Practice) Mark Stone.      First 5 minutes are silent tea drinking together.   All are welcome!  Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 512621

All Beings Zen Sangha Dharma Book study for summer 2021   “American Sutra” by Duncan Ryukan Williams.   This is our second meeting to discuss this historical text focusing on the incarceration of Buddhist Americans of Japanese Ancestry who were rounded up and sent to detention camps during the early years of WWII.  A fascinating account using: interviews from survivors, dairies, government documents and media accounts of that time, Rev. Williams creates a rich delve into the religious bias and racism that plagued the US 80 years ago.  This book is an encouraging account of how people found ways to continue to take refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha while far away from home in uncomfortable and uncertain conditions of incarceration.

With the backdrop of “camps” housing unaccompanied undocumented minors  along our southern border currently and the undefined terms of incarceration for men housed at the US Guantanamo Naval Base on the island of Cuba the text is a timely reminder for those of us who vow to “save all beings” to keep our hearts open and minds awake to the realities we face and responsibilities we share.

Use this link.  If asked for a password use this 012494

We will resume our regular All Beings Zen Sangha schedule on Tuesday July 6th, 2021 with the 2pm Dharma Tea.  Inryū Sensei will lead the tea using the topic of “Freedom – what is it?  What is it good for”?   First 5 minutes are silent tea drinking together.   All are welcome!  Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use 012494

 

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• Tuesday Tea and discussion June 29th , 2021 2pm EDT — Tea and Dharma discussion  lead by our ABZS Guiding Teacher Rev. Inryū Ponce-Barger on “Keeping a journal as a form of spiritual practice”.  45 minutes

Use this link to join.

If asked for a password use this 826408

 

Photography by Yosan

Here is the link to join us via the cloud zendo at 7PM on Thursday  for the All Beings Zen Sangha evening program.  Tonight we will have a period of zazen followed by a Talk by our Ino (head of the zendo)  Seido David Sarpal.     We will close by  chanting the Refuges.

If you are asked for a password please use this  118879

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

30 Minute Zazen Period

Four Great Vows

Talk offered by Ino Seido David Sarpal on the topic of “Eight things I’ve learned during Covid”

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.

Refuges in Pali (Call and Response)

Accapella, inflections as follows:

➞Buddham Saranam Ga➚cha➘mi➞iii

BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

DUTIYAMPI SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI DHAMMAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

TATIYAMPI SANGHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

 

• Tea and discussion June 22nd 2pm EDT — Tea and Dharma discussion lead by Cristina Leifson and Lucy Turner on the topic of  “Reflections on Pride Month and Practice”.   Use this link to join.  If asked for a password use this 826408.  This event goes from 2pm to 2:45pm EDT.  The first five minutes are silent and an opportunity for individuals to settle into the online room and drink tea together.    We look forward to having you join us for this afternoon refreshment!
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