Wednesdays 1/19, 1/26, 2/2
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Led by Koji Reiko Rain Rue
(Attend on-line only)
Join any or all of these three listening sessions to collectively envision welcoming kids and families back to the temple for our Kids Sangha, after this long hiatus since March 2020. These listening sessions are for all Buddha Eye community members who have an interest in exploring what we have to offer kids through the rich diversity of generations, and how we can support each other to live out the dharma together throughout space and time here and now.
Read morePrajnaparamita, the Mother of the Buddhas, is not only a body of ancient, philosophical texts: she is the embodiment of the womb of the Tatagathas. Join us as Ejo explores the deep significance of Prajnaparamita in all her many dimensions.
(Attend in-person or online)
Read moreSunday 1/2
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Abbot Ejo McMullen
Prajnaparamita, the Mother of the Buddhas, is not only a body of ancient, philosophical texts: she is the embodiment of the womb of the Tatagathas. We pay special reverence to her at Buddha Eye Temple, especially during the New Year season. Join us as Ejo explores the deep significance of Prajnaparamita in all her many dimensions.
(Attend in-person or online)
Download Sutra Book PDF here.
Click here Sunday to join on Zoom
Read moreSaturday January 1st, 2022
12:00pm
Join us for a special New Year's Day Ceremony and Celebration!
Every year at Buddha Eye Temple we ring in the New Year with a simple but important ceremony, in which the Prajnaparamita Sutra books are energetically fanned.
You can attend either in person or online via zoom. Just click here at 12pm to join
Read moreThis Sunday: "Question & Response"
Sunday 12/26
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Abbot Ejo McMullen
Question & Response is a lively encounter, in which the hall is opened for the community to bring forward their questions in zen, practice, and life. It is the sincere questions from the assembly that become the Dharma talk!
(Attend in-person or online)
Download Sutra Book PDF here.
Click here Sunday to join on Zoom
Read moreAs we near the end of this incredible year of progress and investment, please help us continue the vitality of our temple into 2022 and beyond by contributing toward our $50,000 year-end appeal goal. Click here to donate.
Read moreSunday 12/5
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Abbot Ejo McMullen
As we approach the winter solstice, a significant time across cultural and religious traditions, Abbot Ejo McMullen will speak on the return of the light in ones own heart-mind.
(Attend in-person or online)
Download Sutra Book PDF here.
Click here Sunday to join on Zoom
Read moreTuesday 11/30
Everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts. Be a part of the global generosity movement and join us on Giving Tuesday to celebrate all acts of giving.
Read moreSunday 11/21
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Abbot Ejo McMullen
Buddhist practice is not abstract. That is easy for us to realize as we gather at Buddha Eye to share in the tradition, but it can also be difficult for us to see how that same tradition has arrived to us through space and time.
Read moreSunday 11/28
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Abbot Ejo McMullen
Jodo-e is very important ceremony where we come together as a community in commemoration and veneration of the Buddha's enlightenment by offering incense, chanting special sutras, and making prostrations together.
Read moreSunday 4/11
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Head Teacher Ejo McMullen
(Attend in-person or online)
Question & Response is a lively encounter, in which the hall is opened for the community to bring forward their questions in zen, practice, and life. It is the sincere questions from the assembly that become the Dharma talk!
Read moreSunday, November 7th
10:00am - 11:30am
(Attend in-person or online)
The Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts represent our aspiration to live an ethical life, as well as our commitment to the continual inquiry that such a life demands. Join us as several of our friends in the Dharma and members of the Buddha Eye community receive the Bodhisattva Precepts in a special ceremony.
(Attend in-person or online)
Download Sutra Book PDF here.
Click here Sunday to join on Zoom
Read moreSunday 10/24
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Abbot Ejo McMullen
Join us this Sunday as Abbot Ejo McMullen retells the origin of Segaki and speaks about the significants of the ritual
Read moreSunday 10/10
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Dharma Teacher Myobun Esther Tishman
Join Myobun this Sunday, as she explores this landscape of the awakening heart. Let’s traipse this mountainside together.
Read moreSunday 10/3
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Head Monk Genjo Yorke
“Way-Seeking Mind” talks express the core of what sustains a practitioner on the path of awakening.
Read moreSunday 9/26
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service Head Teacher Ejo McMullen
The community's integrity, vibrancy, and generosity have now made it possible for us not only to honor Ejo as the first abbot of Buddha Eye, but to establish the "office of the abbot" through which successive abbots will care for the temple and community for generations to come.
Read moreSunday 9/19
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Join us for the official beginning of our Practice Term and the welcoming of Jikie, Reiko, and Ogyoku as Koji Trainees.
Read moreSunday 9/12
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Disciple Shin'ei Brown
The finding and telling of our story, seeped within the mystery.
Read moreTuesday, 9/14
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Join Anyu as she leads a “forest bath” on the Ridgeline Trail at Blanton Ridge. Forest Therapy is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku, which translates to “forest bath.”
Read moreSunday 8/29
9:00am: Zazen
10:00am: Service
Head Teacher Ejo McMullen
This Sunday, Ejo will discuss the importance of deliberately turning toward practice and the many opportunities Buddha Eye Temple is offering this fall.
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