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Wesak is the festival of Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth and is celebrated in early May. This is a very precious time when the entire sangha – adults and kids, parents and those without children – celebrate… Read more »
Interested in having your child attend DharmaSchool this year? Please register by the end of the day, August 20th! Registration can be completed on-line at http://dharma-rain.org/dharmagarden/registration/. If you have questions, please contact the DharmaGarden Council… Read more »
The Starting a Practice workshop offers tips on starting a practice. It emphasizes the way we can cultivate insight by looking at our own actions in the light of the Buddhist Precepts, the importance of… Read more »
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility and partner organizations (including Dharma Rain Zen Center) invite you to join us for Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Creating a Nuclear-Free Future, our 2016 memorial of the atomic bombings of… Read more »
Designed to address the needs of senior practitioners in the community, this discussion group is open to DRZC members who have had at least seven years of practice in a meditation tradition. Not all of… Read more »
Beginning September 1 and ending at the end of Rohatsu Sesshin (December 9 this year), we observe an Ango period of intensified practice. (See the wheel of the year for an overview of our liturgical… Read more »
The poetic writings of ancestor Eihei Dogen (1200-1250) permeate Zen training, from our daily Fukanzazengi to the celebrated Genjo Koan where he says “to study the self is to forget the self.” When Westerners encounter… Read more »
This date is close to the anniversaries of the deaths of both of our founders, Keido Chisan Koho Zenji (d. November 1, 1969) and Roshi Jiyu Kennett (d. November 6, 1996). There is no leader… Read more »
If you are searching for stillness through the practice of meditation, please join us for a day of silent, contemplative practice. This retreat will be in the style of Soto Zen Buddhism, though meditators from… Read more »