Online zazen, sitting meditation, is offered each week, Wednesday through Saturday mornings, from 6:30-8:00 a.m., CST. The morning practice concludes with a short Buddhist service (see below).

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1. Please don’t feel obligated to join in both sittings…join us for the first, the second, or both.

2. Please don’t feel obligated to stay for the service. If that’s not your vibe, we’d still love to have you start your day just sitting with us. Just drop us a “Hi” in chat.

On Sunday mornings, Hokyoji offers online zazen from 8:30 to 9:30, followed by a short talk and discussion. Please click here for more information about our Sunday morning program.

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Hokyoji Morning Practice on Zoom

Schedule

6:30 zazen

7:05 kinhin

7:15 zazen

7:40 service

7:45 brief check-in

Join at any time (all times CST)

Hokyoji Online Morning Service

Verse of the Robe (Repeat three times at the end of zazen)

How great the robe of liberation

A formless field of merit

Wrapping ourselves in Buddha’s teaching

We free all beings.

Repentance Verse (3x) [Standing]

(Doan only) All my ancient twisted karma

(All) From beginningless greed, hate and delusion

Born of my body, speech and mind,

I now fully avow. (One full bow)

Three Refuges (1x) [Standing]

(Doan only) I take refuge in Buddha

(All) May all beings embody the great Way

Resolving to awaken

(Doan only) I take refuge in Dharma

(All) May all beings deeply enter the teachings

Wisdom like the sea

(Doan only) I take refuge in sangha

(All) May all beings support harmony in the community

Free from hindrance (One full bow)

Four Vows (1x) [Standing]

(Doan only) Beings are numberless

(All) I vow to free them

Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to end them

Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to enter them

The Buddha way is unsurpassable; I vow to realize it. (One full bow)

[All sit after two rings of the small bell.]

The 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. 

(Doan recites the eko, a verse to dedicate the merit of the practice)

(All) All Buddhas throughout space and time,

All honored ones, bodhisattvas, mahasattvas, [All stand]

Wisdom beyond wisdom, Mahaprajna Paramita.

[Standing, do three full bows to altar/practice space, then three full bows to each other.]

Brief check-in