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Wednesday November 13, 2024 6:30am – Way Seeking Mind Talk following a brief period of zazen- Lucy Turner will give a WSM talk. In person and online.

Please use this link to join. If asked for a password use 034965

Check in next week for the next Dharma Tea at Two.

Monday November 11, 2024  6-7pm – ABZS Book Club “Branching Streams Flow on in Darkness”. online only Use this link to join . If asked for password use 102328

To join us via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 149227

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

Short Morning Service –to include the Sandokai in English

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

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

Wednesday November 6, 2024 6:30am – Way Seeking Mind Talk following a brief period of zazen- Shinren Mark Stone will give a WSM talk.

To join use this link. If asked for a password use 034965

We don’t have a presenter for today for Dharma Tea at Two pm. Please enjoy the beauty of the trees today and make sure to vote. “The legislatures that create National, State and Local budgets are responsible for reflecting our shared moral and ethical values in what money is spent on. Be a part of the process and let’s create together a more compassionate response to the world” Inryū Sensei

Little Girl Cat says “Vote” watcha waiting for…?

On November 2nd 2024, All Beings Zen Sangha had its annual Sejiki Ceremony, in which we recited names of people, animals, etc. that have passed away within the past year, while having a chance to share how they have impacted our own lives or the ones around us. We honored and gave nourishment to them as well as all beings seen and unseen, here and gone, far and near, so that they may be satisfied and have all the conditions to thrive in this life and the next. Very grateful to our Sangha members who once again hosted this event at their beautiful residence, where we all shared heart-felt company and yummy sweets-n-treats afterward.

On November 1st, All Beings Zen Sangha welcomed the new month with a fun movie night, gathering to watch Suzuki Roshi’s talks on the Sandokai (Harmony of Difference and Equality). This event beautifully aligned with our practice period theme focused on the Sandokai, in which many of us our reading his talks given on this text in his book ‘Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness’. Now getting to also *watch* the talks given, allowed us not only to hear the words directly from the text, but also to glimpse the environment in which Suzuki Roshi originally delivered these teachings. After the film, we shared discussion reflecting on the aspects that resonated with each of us —Suzuki Roshi’s unique character, the elements of monastic practice, and the stunning natural scenery surrounding the freshly-built Tassajara Monastery.

To join us via zoom use this link. If asked for a password use 149227

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

Short Morning Service

Morning greetings