Welcome to AZC’s Online Zendo portal
Please read our general guidelines for forms & etiquette. To enter the Online Zendo for a particular block of time, click on the highlighted program Day-of-the-Week below.
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AZC Online Zendo – Meditation Schedule
Morning Program: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
6:00am Zazen
6:35am Kinhin
6:45am Zazen
7:20am Robe Chant, Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom Chant
7:25am Circle of Bows/Announcements
Midday (Noon Sit): Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
12:00pm Informal Zazen
12:30pm Short Break
12:35pm Informal Zazen
1:00pm Midday program ends
Evening Program: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
5:40pm Zazen
6:15pm Refuges – in Pali
6:20pm Circle of Bows/Announcements
Regular Group Meetings at AZC:
- Monday Eve Dharma Discussion Group meets from 7-8:15pm HERE.
- Tuesday Eve Zen Writing Group Group meets from 7-8:15pm HERE.
- Wednesday Eve Well-Being Ceremony will be in lieu of chanting the Refuges.
- Saturday Beginners’ Meditation Instruction meets from 8-9am HERE.
- Sunday Noon Dharma Punks affiliate group meets from 12-1pm HERE.
- Sunday Eve Meditation & Recovery affiliate group meets from 6-7pm HERE.
8:00am Zazen-Kinhin-Zazen (Informal) -OR- Beginners’ Meditation Instruction
9:05am Break
9:15am Zazen (Formal)
9:50am Circle of Bows/Announcements
10:00am Dharma Talk
10:45am Announcements/Virtual Tea & Cookies (Small Group Check-ins)
12:15pm End Saturday Morning Program
Note for Doans & Kokyos: You will enter the online zendo as any participant would, but remember to unmute yourself for bells, clacks, and chants.
Doan: for Zazen: 3 small bells to begin all periods of zazen. To end: 2 small bells if kinhin follows, or 1 small bell after the last period of zazen. For Kinhin – 1 clack to start, 1 to end. For Dharma Talk – STOP(
), as speaker puts hands in gassho to begin and to end (for before & after lecture chant).
Links to Recordings (for doans to download and play at appropriate times):
- 10 min Han
- 10 min Densho
- Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom Chant (after morning robe chant)
- Refuges – in Pali (after evening zazen)
- All Buddhas
- Full Service Well-Being Ceremony
- Maka Hannya Haramita Shin Gyo (w/bells & eko)
- Brief Metta Chant (currently retired)
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Regular ONLINE ZENDO Chants:
Robe Chant: (chant after zazen before morning service)
Dāi sāi ge dā puku
mu sō fuku dēn e
hi bu nyo rāi kyō
kō do sho shu jō (2x)
Great robe of liberation,
Field far beyond form and emptiness;
Wearing the Tathagata’s teaching,
Saving all beings
Hymn to the Perfection of Wisdom:
Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom, the lovely, the holy. The Perfection of Wisdom gives light. Unstained, the entire world cannot stain her. She is a source of light and from everyone in the triple world she removes darkness. Most excellent are her works. She brings light so that all fear and distress may be forsaken, and disperses the gloom and darkness of delusion. She herself is an organ of vision. She has a clear knowledge of the own-being of all dharmas, for she does not stray away from it. The Perfection of Wisdom of the buddhas sets in motion the wheel of dharma.
Refuges (in Pali):
Buddham saranam gacchami
Dhammam saranam gacchami
Sangham saranam gacchami
Dutiyampi buddham saranam gacchami
Dutiyampi dhammam saranam gacchami
Dutiyampi sangham saranam gacchami
Tatiyampi buddham saranam gacchami
Tatiyampi dhammam saranam gacchami
Tatiyampi sangham saranam gacchami
Ēnmēi Jūkku Kānnōn Gyō [7 Xs]: (Well-being ceremony on Wednesday eve)
Kan ze on
na mu butsu
yo butsu u in
yo butsu u en
bup po so en
jo raku ga jo
cho nen kan ze on
bo nen kan ze on
nen nen ju shin ki
nen nen fu ri shin
