Dairyu Michael Wenger Roshi to visit All Beings Zen Sangha
Dairyu Michael Wenger to visit All Beings Sangha May 31st-June 2nd, 2014
Dairyu trained and practiced for many years at the San Francisco Zen Center and received Dharma Transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman. He is now Guiding Teacher of Dragon’s Leap Meditation Center where he emphasizes zazen, brush painting and Dharma classes. Courage, compassion and creativity are his touchstones.
Below photo R to L: Dairyu Michael Wenger Roshi with the Dan Welch Roshi the new abbot of Dharma Sangha Temple in Crestone CO. Photo taken by Inryu@Dharma Sangha Temple 2013
Saturday May 31st – Join Dairyu for an informal talk and reception. We will view some of Dairyu’s artwork and recent films and discuss the relationship between creativity and zen practice. The event will be held in the home of Sukumar and Alex Srinivasan (which is near the zendo). Please meet at 3pm in front of 2801 Adams Mill Road NW and we will walk over the Alex and Sukumar’s place together for the event. Below are a few examples of Dairyu’s brush painting.
Sunday June 1st – Dairyu to offer precepts to two members of our Sangha; Sukumar Srinivasan and Carlos Moura. Please arrive by 8:45am for the 9am ceremony in the All Beings Sangha Zendo in Adams Morgan.
Monday June 2nd – Join us for 6:30am morning zazen followed by Heart Sutra service lead by Dairyu.
Space for the Saturday event is limited. Please RSVP via email to confirm that you will attend. inryu@bagheerayoga.com
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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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 followed by one period of Zazen and a Well Being 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 794038
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
Heart Sutra in English
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Well Being Ceremony – Call and Response
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo (9 times)
Loving Kindness Meditation
Dedication of Merit
Refuges in Pali
Post service check in (please feel welcome to stay or depart as your schedule requires)
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,
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 at 2:00 pm /2:00pm-2:45pm: – Our Guiding Teacher Inryū Poncé- Barger will lead a tea discussion about clinging”. Use this link to join If asked for a password use 995606 or See www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in .
Tonight we will be in-person and live in the cloud zendo. The evening practice will begin with a short service followed by one period of Zazen. Following Zazen we will have our monthly Full Moon Ceremony. Please feel welcome to stay on zoom and pass the feather to share greetings with the sangha and news about your practice.
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
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Full Moon Ceremony
Pass the feather practice reflection
Refuges in Pali
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,
the mantra that says:
“Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.”
All Buddhas
All Buddhas, ten directions, Three times
All Honored Ones, Bodhisattvas-Mahasattvas
Wisdom beyond wisdom
Maha Prajna Paramita
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.
RYAKU FUSATSU
Full Moon Bodhisattva Ceremony
Repentance (3 X call and response)
All my ancient twisted karma
From beginningless greed, hate, and delusion
Born through body, speech, and mind
I now fully avow.
Homages (1 X call and response)
Homage to the Seven Buddhas before Buddha.
Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha.
Homage to Maitreya Buddha.
Homage to Manjusri Bodhisattva.
Homage to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.
Homage to Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.
Homage to the Succession of Ancestors.
Four Bodhisattva Vows (1X call and response)
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
ALL: I take refuge in Buddha.
Doshi: Before all beings,
Immersing body and mind
Deeply in the Way
Awakening true mind.
ALL: I take refuge in Dharma.
Doshi: Before all beings,
Entering deeply the merciful ocean
Of Buddha’s Way.
ALL: I take refuge in Sangha.
Doshi: Before all being,
Bringing harmony to everyone,
Free from hindrance.
Pure Precepts
All: I vow to refrain from all evil
Doshi: It is the abode of the law of all Buddhas;
it is the source of the law of all Buddhas.
All: I vow to make every effort to live in enlightenment.
Doshi: It is the teaching of anuttara samyaksambodhi
and the path of the one who practices and that which is
practiced.
All: I vow to live and be lived for the benefit of all beings.
Doshi: It is transcending profane and holy and taking self
and others across.
Grave Precepts
All: I vow not to kill
Doshi: By not killing life the Buddha tree seed grows,
transmit the life of Buddha and do not kill.
All: I vow not to take what is not given.
Doshi: The self and objects are such as they are, two yet
one. The gate of liberation stands open.
All: I vow not to misuse sexuality
Doshi: Let the three wheels of self, object, and action be
Pure. With nothing to desire one goes along
Together with the Buddhas.
All: I vow to refrain from false speech.
Doshi: The Dharma Wheel turns from the beginning. There
Is neither surplus nor lack. The sweet dew
Saturates all and harvests the truth.
All: I vow to refrain from intoxicants.
Doshi: Originally pure, don’t defile. This is the great
Awareness.
All: I vow not to slander.
Doshi: In the Buddhadharma, go together, appreciate
Together, realize together, and actualize together.
Tuesday: Dharma Tea at 2:00 pm /2:00pm-2:45pm: – Our Guiding Teacher Inryū Poncé- Barger will lead a tea discussion about Ichi-go, Ichi-e, One meeting, One opportunity. How do you meet the moment? Let’s discuss the concept of peak life moments (are there such things?) and syncing with the “each” opportunity of each meeting. Use this link to join If asked for a password use 995606 or See www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in .
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 conclude by chanting the refuges in Pali. Please feel welcome to stay on zoom if you are able to share greetings with the sangha after the evening practice has concluded.
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
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
25 Minute Zazen Period
Four Great Vows
Refuges in Pali
Brief Check in and announcements
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,
the mantra that says:
“Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha.”
All Buddhas
All Buddhas, ten directions, Three times
All Honored Ones, Bodhisattvas-Mahasattvas
Wisdom beyond wisdom
Maha Prajna Paramita
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.
Tuesday: Dharma Tea at 2:00 pm /2:00pm-2:45pm: – Our Guiding Teacher Inryū Poncé- Barger will lead a tea discussion about Haiku. We will read and study a few Haiku poems and then write our own “Holiday Haiku”. Use this link to join If asked for a password use 995606 or See www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in .
Tonight we will have a short service that includes chanting the Heart Sutra in English. Followed by one period of Zazen and a Dharma Talk by our Abiding Teacher Inryū Sensei.. 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 English
All Buddhas Chant
25 Minute Zazen Period
5 minutes of Kinhin (slow walking)
Dharma Talk
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.
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
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 All Beings Zen Sangha for our annual Solstice Celebration in which we chant the Enmei 108 times. Inryū Sensei and perhaps others will offer 108 prostrations for each repetition of the chant. If joining from home, consider lighting a candle at the start of the ceremony and extinguishing the candle to close the ceremony.
Please use this link to join. If asked for a password use 002034
Tuesday: Dharma Tea at 2:30 pm /2:30pm-3:00pm: – Our Guiding Teacher Inryū Poncé- Barger will lead a tea discussion about the concepts of; “Having Tea with Mara” and “Wanting the Unwanted”. Use this link to join If asked for a password use 995606 or See www.allbeingszen.org home page to sign in . Note the later start time than is the norm for today 12/20.