This is an opportunity to prepare the temple for the Prior’s Installation Ceremony. Please feel welcome to drop by at any time during the day to help with a variety of working meditation and cleaning jobs.

Food will be available if you would like to join us for an informal lunch.

Meditation, walking meditation and meditation.

A celebration of Manjusri, the Bodhisattva of Great Wisdom, followed by tea and a Dharma talk.

This festival ceremony will be broadcast via zoom using our usual Sunday credentials. If you would like to join us, please contact the temple for more information.

30 minutes of meditation followed by vespers, the last ceremonial of the day. Vespers is the Chanting of The Litany of the Great Compassionate One followed by other short verses.

The Dharma discussion will be on various topics of training in the Soto Zen Tradition.

Meditation, Mid-day Service and Dharma Discussion

Called shinzan (which means ascending or opening the mountain) in Japanese, the ceremony for installing the chief priest of a temple marks the formal commitment of the monk to that temple. We invite you to join us for this important ceremony installing Rev. Leon as the prior. The ceremony will be followed by a Dharma talk by a visiting monk and a festive meal. Stay tuned for details.

30 minutes of meditation followed by vespers, the last ceremonial of the day. Vespers is the Chanting of The Litany of the Great Compassionate One followed by other short verses.