Bystander/Upstander Training

Sunday, June 30th, 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Learn and practice how to intervene when someone is being harassed in a hateful way-without escalating the situation.

Sunday, June 9th 12:00 pm

Join us immediately after Sunday service on June 9th for a very short, easy work party preparing native wild-flower seed balls to give away at our anniversary celebration. 

with Chef Ryan

June 10th, 5:30pm - 8:00pm

This class aims to motivate people to cook wholesome food from scratch!

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The Fifteenth Anniversary of the Founding of Buddha Eye Temple is just over a month away on Sunday, June 23rd at 12 pm! 

Do you sing, tell jokes, play an instrument, do magic tricks, or otherwise enjoy sharing your gifts in public? For the Temple’s 15th Anniversary Celebration, we’re organizing a brief variety show!

Please click here to enjoy our Spring 2019 Bulletin, which includes reflections by Jikie, Simon, and Jakuen, poetry by Ejo and Shin'ei, and lots of great photos from the Fall and Winter!  

Saturday, June 1st. 9:00am

Kogen Houseknecht will offer a workshop on garden tool maintenance. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to bring a tool from home that needs some turning up.

Four Part Series May 14, 21, 28 & June 4
Tuesdays 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
In this four part series Ejo will explore the origins of Buddha Eye Temple's various chants and recitations as well as give guidance in how to intone together with an assembly.  No registration required.

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How shall I live?  This is the most fundamental of spiritual questions.  One aspect of our response to this question is ethics. 

On May 5th, two members of the Buddha Eye community will receive the Bodhisattva Precepts in a special ceremony.

Apr 18 (Thursday) 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Sun, April 21, 12:30pm – 3:30pm

It’s time to get our temple vegetable garden planted and ready for the season! Join us for an afternoon outdoors!

Join us for a screening of “Rivers & Tides,”  Thomas Riedelsheimer’s intimate documentary about the life and work of artist Andy Goldsworthy. (1 hour, 32 minutes).

Listen to the inspiring talk given by the author of American Sutra, Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams, at Buddha Eye on Saturday, April 6th.

Sunday April 7  10 - 11:30 AM

Every year on the Sunday closest to April 8th we celebrate the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha some 2,500 years ago. Known as the “Flower Festival”, this celebration is perhaps the most bright and festive of the year.  We bathe the baby Buddha with pure water steeped with spring blossoms. After the ceremony, we enjoy temple-made rice pudding and enjoy the return of spring.

Saturday, March 23:  8:30 AM

Led by Kogen Houseknecht

Join us for Art Sangha, an Informal Art Collective of Zen practitioners at Buddha Eye Temple.

Tue: March 5   7-9 PM (special two-hour workshop)

Friday, March 8th, 2019. 6:00pm

Join us for a screening of Werner Herzog’s epic documentary “Into the Inferno” (1 hour, 44 minutes), with a discussion by Ejo McMullen.