Meditation, hunt-a-monk, and two hours of silence: welcome to Buddhist summer camp, as told by NPR. At Dharma Camp, in the foothills of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains, campers make friendship bracelets, play… Read more »
Portland Buddhist FestivalSaturday, August 8, 202611am – 5pm Dharma Rain Zen Center8500 NE Siskiyou St, Portland, OR 97220 Celebrate the vibrancy of Portland’s Buddhist community with representatives from more than… Read more »
Portland Buddhist FestivalSaturday, July 12, 202511 am – 5 pm Dharma Rain Zen Center8500 NE Siskiyou St, Portland, OR 97220 Celebrate the vibrant Buddhist communities in Portland with representatives from… Read more »
Celebrating Our History In 1986, Kyogen and Gyokuko Carlson founded Dharma Rain Zen Center. The Carlsons shared a vision for a Zen temple that supported a variety of practice expressions,… Read more »
Several members of Dharma Rain recently went on pilgrimage to a dozen different temples and monasteries in Oregon and California. Tsuho and Sage were participants and share some of the… Read more »
Dharma Rain is committed to expressing the teachings in how we operate the temple, and are leaning into our recognition and expression of interdependence in several ways right now. We… Read more »
Seminary student Karl Kanbergs recently did a lovely paraphrase of the Heart Sutra as part of his seminary project: The heart is a spiritual warrior, steadfast. The head sways with… Read more »
Kakumyo Lowe-Charde contributed to the Winter 2022 issue of Buddhadharma in a forum exploring this topic. In an excerpt from the interview highlighted in the article, Kakumyo shared, “Part of… Read more »
I wanted to touch on a topic that has been painful to many of Dharma Rain’s members and supporters to witness and wrestle with. We’re aware of how dire the housing situation… Read more »
Peter Nichols Zen Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ESLT was a great, intense, exhausting experience. The schedule was packed— it felt like a sesshin with talking—but the days/evenings off, along… Read more »
Sam Murphy, Board Member I recently had the opportunity to attend three DEI training sessions along with 25 other Dharma Rain leaders. It was great to engage in this work… Read more »
Sokyo writes: During an in-person all day gathering, six Daoren members wrote gathas, based on Robert Aiken’s book, The Dragon Who Never Sleeps. Together we ventured into writing and sharing what… Read more »
Flying Fish was a teacher at Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul, Minnesota for many years. About a year and a half ago, she moved here with her… Read more »
Kakumyo wrote a description of one of our newest ceremonies, Daigen Shuri, which occurs right after our Fusatsu ceremonies, around the solstices and equinoxes. The most recent addition to Dharma… Read more »
Genko and others from Dharma Rain recently shared a sesshin with Zen West/Empty Field in Eugene. In this post, Genko shares pictures and reflections from the event. Last year’s Cultivating… Read more »
Chris Reiju Nelsen When we set out our bowls for oryoki, after chanting the places of the Buddha, we intone: Now we set out Buddha’s bowls;may we, with all beings, realize… Read more »