Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050

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)

Greeting by the Kokyo

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

The Harmony of Difference and Sameness

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

25 Minute Zazen Period

Four Great Vows

Pass the feather

Refuges in Pali

On Sunday, March 23rd, All Beings Zen Sangha gathered for a half-day retreat at Blue Ridge Farm. Just as the sun was rising, we sat together for three periods of zazen in the ‘pig-shed-zendo,’ followed by periods of kinhin (walking meditation) across our Sangha member’s beautiful farm. After sitting in silence, immersed in the sounds of nature, we added our own voices with a short chanting service and group sharings. We concluded our time of being together with a delicious potluck on the balcony, overlooking the spring landscape of Blue Ridge Farm — sharing stories, laughter, and nourishment amidst the ever-changing world. It was a wonderful and much needed retreat into nature.

Below is a video clip of our day together. Enjoy! https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1HNHJfUDgf/?mibextid=wwXIfr.

Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 463913

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 Morning Practice

Robe Chant

40 minute period of Zazen

Four Great Vows

Morning Service

Morning Greetings

Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050

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)

Greeting by the Kokyo

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Heart Sutra in Chinese

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

25 Minute Zazen Period

Four Great Vows

Introductions and announcements

Refuges in Pali

Here is the Zoom link to join in the cloud zendo, password if needed: 522050

Tonight we will have a short service followed by one period of Zazen with an interval of Kinhin (5 minutes of slow walking in between) and then our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony. 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

Evening Bell Chant

Harmony of Difference and Equality

25 Minute Zazen Period

5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)

Our monthly Wellbeing Ceremony

Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo

Loving Kindness Meditation (call and response)

Refuges in Pali

Monday March 10th, 2025 6:00-7:00pm – ABZS Book Club Online only– For the month of March, we will be reading ‘Inciting Joy’ by Ross Gay. Please join on March 10th to share and discuss! Here is the link to sign in. If asked for a password use 099118

Seiryū says “The Ireicho event was well attended, with many persons of Japanese descent and their extended families.  100 year old Masaharu Ishii stamped his sister’s name in the Ireicho to officially kick off the national tour before I arrived.  After stamping the Ireicho, a journalist, Daisuke Nakai, from the major Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun asked if he could speak with me.  “Why I was present, do I have Japanese heritage & what is the meaning for me.  I replied that I was stamping the names of Rev Jiko Nakade’s grandfather & 2 Daifukuji priests from Kealakekua, HI who were rounded up, taken to Sand Island off of Oahu then shipped by boat to the mainland detention camps.  There were no Buddhists in robes or rakusus in the audience.  Publically Rev Duncan Williams is very approachable and humble.  After the event he greeted me warmly saying, “I look forward to being involved with All Beings Zen Sangha again.””

The 1942 Executive Order 9066 authorized the US military to remove people deemed a threat to national security leading to the incarceration of Japanese Americans in violation of their civil liberties. To acknowledge and remember them, the Ireicho, a book of the names of over 125,000 incarcerated persons is touring 12 of the continental internment camp sites.  Ireichomeans” book consoling spirits.”

Tuesday February 25th, 2025 – Dharma Tea on Tuesdays at 2 -2:45pm Tea led by Beata Stylianos on her “Experience of Meeting the Dalai Lama on a Roof in Cambridge, MA”. online only Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 024787

All Beings Zen Sangha Zen Meditation Retreat Schedule    10am-4pm. In person and online. To join via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 338529

10:00 Welcome and explanation of the Jundo and then people will begin the first period of Zazen

10:10am Robe Chant (lead by Kokyo) 40 minute peirod of Zazen

10:50am End of Zazen – beginning of Work Practice

Work Practice leader will assign tasks

12:00pm End of Work Practice/return to Zendo for Lunch

12:15am Oryoki instruction

12:30pm Lunch –Formal Oryoki

1:30pm Lunch clean up/break

1:40pm Outdoor walk (weather permiting) or Dharma study

2:15 Tea and Cookies/Dharma Discussion

3:10pm Kinhin (slow walking meditation)

3:20pm 30 minute period of Zazen

3:50pm Closing Chant 

4:00 End of Zazenkai