Rev. Inryu officiating for an Arlington Va wedding in September 2015
Our resident priest Rev. Inryu officiated for a recent outdoor wedding in Arlington VA. We set up a simple Altar on a small table.
As part of the ceremony those in attendance were asked to close their eyes and take a moment to bring full attention to the current moment. Feeling their bodies, the air around them, the sounds in the environment and to observe their breathing. We then shared a moment of silence to settle into the beauty the moment and place.
The couple vowed to take refuge in Awakening, Truth and Community.
The vowed to support and cherish life, to live generously with an open heart, to remain faithful in relationship, to communicate honestly and simply, to treat all beings and each other with dignity and respect, to work for the benefit of others, to be humble, to not hand on to grudges or angered and to awaken to their connection to all life.Rev. Inryu has been the official celebrant for weddings in Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and Washington DC. She is a registered officiant with the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The photos above are from Phyllis Petronello Photography
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All Beings Zen Sangha in closed November 25, 2021. Please join us tomorrow morning 11/26/21 at 6:30am Eastern for a short period of zazen and a Way Seeking Mind Talk offered by Alex Langlinais.
Here is the link to join us via Zoom at 6:30am for morning zazen practice.
If you are asked for a password use this 346068
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.
Click below to see the order of service and chants.
Dharma tea at 2pm led by Cristina Leifson on the topic of ” The Zen of Going to the Restroom”. We will start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking and conclude the discussion with the four great vows. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 897614. Cristina says “I will talk about Suzuki-Roshi’s teaching on ” The Zen of Going to the Restroom, from Not Always So :). To get people ready, in case they are not familiar, please know that this is not a talk about literally going to the bathroom.
“Fortunately or unfortunately, even though you don’t like it, we need to go to the rest room, the stinky rest room. I am sorry, but I think we have to go to the rest room as long as we live.” – Suzuki Roshi
Please join us tonight for a short service, one period of zazen followed by the Full Moon Ceremony. Use this link to join and if asked used this password 641260.
Order of Service
Kokyo will welcome the sangha
Enmei Jukko Kannon Gyo
Heart Sutra in English
30 minute period of zazen
Ryaku Fusatsu/ Full Moon Ceremony
Refuges in Pali
If you are able to stay on the zoom call or in the zendo following the end of service we will have a brief check with those in attendance.
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.
Dharma tea at 2pm led by former Shuso, Myoshin Carlos Moura on the topic of “The means and benefits of Loving-Kindness”. We will start with 5 minutes of silent tea drinking and conclude the discussion with the four great vows. Use this link to join. If asked for a password use 897614. Myoshin will be using a translation from the Pali by Piyadassi Thera.
Monday, November 15: Way Seeking Mind talk by Kyoji Christian Panas following a short period of Zazen. Use this link to join. If you are asked for a password use 813097
Click below to see the order of service and chants.
Rev. Shinshu Roberts author Being-Time will join the sangha via zoom, 2 – 3:00pm.
Rev. Shinshu Roberts is co-founder and teacher, with Rev. Daijaku Kinst, of Ocean Gate Zen Center in Capitola, CA. She is a Dharma heir of Sojun Weitsman Roshi, in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. Shinshu Sensei also holds the appointment of International Dharma Teacher in the Japan. Use this link to join If asked for a password use 775064
Here is the like to join us via Zoom at 6:30am for morning zazen practice.
Way Seeking Mind talk by Grace McClain following a short period of Zazen at 6:30am.
If you are asked for a password use this 471305
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.
Click below to see the order of service and chants.
Rev. Inryu has been the official celebrant for weddings in Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and Washington DC. She is a registered officiant with the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia.
