2025-04-14

Practice

You are welcome to join in the practice by zoom, five mornings a week, Tuesday through Saturday morning, at 7:00 ET / 6:00 CT / 5:00 MT / 4:00 PT.

Our zoom morning practice may occasionally need to be cancelled. Check here for cancellation notice.

ZOOM LINK.

You'll need this document: "One Earth Zen: Sutras, Chants, and Songs".

Morn Practice Format:
Opening Chants: 8 mins
Zazen (silent seated meditation): 25 mins
Kinhin (walking meditation): 5 mins
Sutra service (recitations): 9-10 mins
Dharma discussion: 10 mins
Closing Song

You may also use the audio files linked below to accompany your home practice on any schedule that works for you.

The Morn practice (1 hr) includes:
  • Verse of Kesa (p. 42 -- 2 mins)
  • Opening Verse (from pp. 3-5 -- about 1 min)
  • Opening Day-of-Week Song (p. 38 or 42 -- 1-2 mins)
  • Dedication, including either Gatha of Atonement (Mon-Wed-Fri) or The Three Refuges (Tue-Thu-Sat) -- (about 3 mins)
  • Silence for Zazen (25 mins)
  • Clappers to stand, begin Kinhin (5 mins), and return to place
  • Sutra Service (7-9 mins), which changes each week. There is an "A" service for Mon-Wed-Fri, and a "B" service for Tue-Thu-Sat. Sundays alternate between the "A" and the "B" service.
  • Silence for Dharma discussion or study (about 8 mins)
  • Closing Day-of-Week Song (p. 38 or 42 -- 1-2 mins)
The Eve practice (30 mins) includes:
  • Opening Day-of-Week Song (p. 38 or 42 -- 1-2 mins)
  • Silence for Zazen (25 mins)
  • Closing Day-of-Week Song (p. 38 or 42 -- 1-2 mins)

Spring Week 4: Apr 14 - Apr 20



Mon Apr 7
Mon Morn w/ Sutra Service 4A
Mon Eve

Tue Apr 8
Tue Morn w/ Sutra Service 4B
Tue Eve

Wed Apr 9
Wed Morn w/ Sutra Service 4A
Wed Eve

Thu Apr 10
Thu Morn w/ Sutra Service 4B
Thu Eve

Fri Apr 11
Fri Morn w/ Sutra Service 4A
Fri Eve

Sat Apr 12
Sat Morn w/ Sutra Service 4B
Sat Eve

Sun Apr 13
Repeat Sat Morn w/ Sutra Service 4B
Repeat Sat Eve

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Directory for all audio files: HERE
AUDIO CREDITS

AUDIO CREDITS

Spoken recordings by Meredith Garmon and LoraKim Joyner. "Universal Dedication" also includes voice of Allie Freed.
From Youtube: "Gate of Sweet Nectar" by Krishna Das, sung by Starry Mountain Singers for Amidon Community Music.
"The Four Bodhisattva Vows" and "Diamond Sutra Gatha": music composed and performed by Meredith Garmon.
"Save All the Beings": music by Boundless Way Zen; performed (piano, guitar, and vocals) by Meredith Garmon.
"Verse of the Kesa" and "Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva": music by Soten Lynch; vocals by Soten Lynch, Kosho Ault, Maggie Medlin, and Eric Hertz. Recorded at Great Vow Zen Monastery, Clatskanie, OR, 2020.

For credits for the words/lyrics, see "One Earth Zen: Sutras, Chants, and Songs".

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