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This optional period of zazen is primarily for those participating in seminary.
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 »
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 »
This special ceremony will take the place of the usual Sunday service and Dharma Talk. It involves a procession where the incoming Co-Abbot Pro Tem arrives at the temple, doing bows, intoning dharma phrases, and… Read more »
Finding the words to say how you feel and what’s important to you can be difficult. You would like to express yourself in a way others can hear you without defensiveness and misunderstandings. You would… Read more »
The Five Ranks or Five Positions is a subtle, intimate and challenging teaching first described by Dongshan (Tozan) in China. It is one theme of “The Most Excellent Mirror Samadhi” and has become an important… Read more »
A Mental Health First Aid course is being made available to members of the Dharma Rain and Heart of Wisdom sanghas. Those serving Dharma Rain as guestmasters, as well as members who are in teaching… 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 »
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 »
Rohatsu commemorates the Buddha’s enlightenment, and is the culmination of a year of practice. It is often the deepest and most intense of the year. See the schedule. Pre-registration is required. Please fill out the… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Each summer we take a week to study a fascicle of Dogen’s Shobogenzo. The focus of the sesshin is sustaining practice during an intensive period, acting out our Buddhahood in the meditation, disciplines and rituals… Read more »
This retreat will follow regular sesshin form insofar as practical, though kinhin will often involve a backpack. The backpacking level of effort is moderate. We will be in the Indian Heaven Wilderness in SW Washington,… Read more »
This retreat has been cancelled due to fires. Forest service representatives for both the Indian Heaven Wilderness and the Badger Creek area both say that it’s unlikely that those areas will be reopened or even… Read more »