March 21, 2021 Compassionate Abbot, Thank you for this opportunity to come before the Sangha and officially announce that I am retiring from my public role as a lay teacher.… Read more »
Sokyo offers a book report on A Fearless Heart by Thupten Jinpa: I highly recommend this book because it is multi-faceted. The author, Thupten Jinpa, has a background in Classical… Read more »
Join us every other Friday, more or less, from 7pm-8:30pm as we explore the text Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah.… Read more »
Daoren means “person of the way.” In Soto practice, the way is always right before us. The Daoren Circle seek to practice the way wholeheartedly within our everyday lives through the Mahayana… Read more »
Starting on June 14 Dharma Rain will open Sunday morning service and Wednesday evening sitting. The groups are limited to 25 so everyone will have to register to attend. Please… Read more »
Starting this Sunday, Dharma Rain Zen Center will be moving into phase 1 reopening. This means that for the Sunday morning program, and the Wednesday night classes, we will be… Read more »
We were able to pivot to using Zoom quite quickly but… on the recording side of things there was a bit more of a bump. We have been gathering the… Read more »
The chant book that we use at Dharma Rain is on our website, but can be hard to find. Here is a link so you can follow along at home.… Read more »
Well our mistake, and apologies to Kaishin. It looks like her article got cut off in the newsletter. Please follow the link to find out how it all ends!
This Sunday Kakumyo will be giving the Dharma Talk and he will also talk abit about the fact that Oregon will start to reopen on the 15th. Dharma Rain will… Read more »
With sadness, the Dharma Garden Council has cancelled this summer’s session of Dharma Camp. Camp requires a lot of advance planning, and with so much still uncertain, the Council made… Read more »
After falling ill and being asked to quarantine to help protect residents and sangha during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dharma Rain priest and teacher Genko Rainwater recently re-entered the residential community.… Read more »
This week we are sharing a paper written by Corey Scott Jensen, a Dharma Rain sangha member and an inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary. Gyoshi provided the following introduction to… Read more »
This years Denkoe started Monday night at 7pm. The morning sittings starting at 5am and the evening sittings starting at 7pm are both being Zoomed. Please visit our Denkoe page… Read more »
This year we are holding Denkoe online. The residents and monastics will be sitting in the zendo both morning and evening, plus the sitting will be on Zoom. Please visit… Read more »
Thank you to everyone that joined us for the forum. Its amazing to see how quickly we are all adapting to our new conditions. The Zoom meetings are so going… Read more »