Every Monday at 6:00pm Pacific Time, Seattle Koyasan offers a live-streaming “Ah”-breathing meditation to support BLM. Participation is free and open to all. We now dedicate this practice to those with a serious determination to terminate racism, seeking to express empathy. Seattle Koyasan can play a role in embracing the wounds Black people have suffered for over 400 years. This temple’s strongest point is prayer: a single, sincere prayer to convey compassionate energy to all.

Seattle Koyasan wishes to offer a safe space in which to fully extend compassion. Please join us each Monday evening at 6:00pm for “Mandala Symphony for Black Lives Matter." We will use the practice of “Ah” meditation to join together in a mutually-supportive effort to unmute and show ourselves. People from different walks of life, different skin colors, and different aspirations will share the Zoom screen like Buddhas in a mandala, generating compassionate energy for the world.

The sound expresses the symphony of the entire body. "Ah" is also representative of the vibration of Dainichi Nyorai, the Cosmic Buddha, who is the life of the universe. With this practice, we create a "symphony" of sound and compassion. It is a symphony because, like the various instruments of an orchestra, we have different "shapes" in the physical world. By uttering "Ah …" we flow out from our shapes. As a vibration, we harmonize with all the other vibrations flowing out from other "shapes"; not only human beings, but trees, stones, mountains, the Earth, other planets, and even the stars: all vibrate. Finally, we circulate all over the universe as the one universal life. This is the universal symphony🙏