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Tag: All Beings Zen Sangha
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Morning Practice for November 24, 2025 6:30am Eastern
Use this link to join. If asked use this password 493323
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.
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Service
Morning Greetings
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Evening Practice for November 20 2025 – 7pm Shuso Talk by Zen‘Etsu Clay
Please join us for evening practice, where we will have a shortened period of Zazen and evening service, followed by the Shuso Talk on our current Ango-practice text, Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors.
To join us online via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 493323
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Morning Practice for November 19th, 2025 6:30am Eastern
Use this link to join. If asked use this password 493323
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.
40 minute period of Zazen
Morning Service
Morning Greetings
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Tuesday November 18: Baika Practice
Baikaryu Eisanka 6-7pm– Japanese Plum Blossom Style Hymns with bells. Today we will be reviewing and singing ‘Sanbo Gowasan – English: Hymns of the Three Treasures’ .. as well as continuing to learn ‘Magokoro Ni Ikiru – English: Living with a True Heart’ in person only – Contact Zen’etsu @ zenjoyclay@gmail.com for more informationBaika Vows we chant before beginning of practice:
- We will live according to proper teachings through baikaryu eisanka.
- We will live in harmony with others through baikaryu eisanka.
- We will create a cheerful world around us through baikaryu eisanka.
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November 14-16 2025: Paw Paw WV Weekend Retreat Recap!
Feel the outdoors of Paw Paw, West Virginia, where All Beings Zen Sangha gathered at a Sangha members beautiful mountain-top cabin in West Virginia, where we spent Friday through Sunday practicing the Buddha Way. Each day we began with zazen in the frosty morning, feeling the growing fire slowly starting to warm the space before the sun rose — followed by a full days schedule of Zazen, kinhin, and work practice. Some more moments included a Sangha Member Emyō leading a 1 hour yoga class as well as a chop making class! It was a wonderful weekend and we hope to visit Marcella’s nature haven again soon. Great gratitude.
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Evening Practice for November 13th, 2025 – 7pm Guest Speaker Rev. Shodo Spring Sensei
Thursday, November 13 Rev. Shodo Spring Sensei offers a Dharma talk at All Beings Zen Temple. Rev. Shodo will focus on their recently published book “Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings”, online and in person.
To join us online via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 493323
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Evening Practice For November 6, 2025 7pm Eastern
Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 493323
Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking ) and then our monthly Full Moon Ceremony and Pass the Feather sharing. 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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Full Moon Ceremony
Pass the feather
Refuges in Pali
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Baika Practice for November 4, 6:00 – 7:00pm
Baikaryu Eisanka 6-7pm– Japanese Plum Blossom Style Hymns with bells. Today we will be reviewing and singing ‘Sanbo Gowasan – English: Hymns of the Three Treasures’ .. as well as continuing to learn ‘Magokoro Ni Ikiru – English: Living with a True Heart’ in person only – Contact Zen’etsu @ zenjoyclay@gmail.com for more information
Baika Vows we chant before beginning of practice:- We will live according to proper teachings through baikaryu eisanka.
- We will live in harmony with others through baikaryu eisanka.
- We will create a cheerful world around us through baikaryu eisanka.
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Tuesday, November 4: Tuesday Tea at 2pm
Dharma Tea on Tuesday Tea at 2pm- 2:45pm, Use this link to join If asked for a password use 493323
Shinren Mark will discuss Eihei Dogen’s teaching that every moment is a full expression of all existence, containing past, present, and future simultaneously. This perspective may offer valuable insights into the felt experience of our zazen meditation. Shinren, a longtime member of All Beings Zen Sangha, shares meditation practices with the underserved in DC. online only.
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Evening Practice for October 30, 2025 7pm Eastern
Use this link to join. If asked, use the password: 493323
Photography by Seido David Sarpal Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen, an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between) and another period of Zazen. 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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Refuges in Pali