Events
Announcements
September 4, 2026
HoC’s 10th Anniversary
and 2026 Practice Period
Opening Ceremony ONLINE
8am - 10am PDT
With Shuso, Patricia Starr
No Time To Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva by Pema Chodron, Read pages ix -24
Friday Morning Meetings
Online
8 -9:30am PDT
Practice Period Talks
by Patricia Starr, Jaune Evans, Wendy Johnson, and Sangha Members
In our Friday morning meetings, we focus on a different Dharma text every few months, and engage in informal discussions that offer opportunities to share the teachings with each other.
Every week begins with sitting and chanting a Buddhist well-being service, followed by Dharma talks or panel conversations, breakout groups and participant discussions.
September - December 2026
No Time To Lose
A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
by Pema Chodron
“May bodhicitta, precious and sublime,
Arise where it has not yet come to be;
And where it has arisen may it no tdecline,
But grow and flourish ever more and more.”
Reading Aloud Group
Schedule
Monday, September 14, 2026
3:00 – 4:30pm (PT) ONLINE
We are continuing to enjoy reading Through Forests of Every Color by Roshi Joan Sutherland.
The Reading Aloud Group is open to everyone as a monthly space to explore, relax and learn more about creating compassionate community together.
We gather online on the second Monday of each month, sit for a few minutes, read to each other for 20-30 minutes, and then share in a discussion. Bring a cup of tea!
Fall 2026 Read With Us!
Through Forests of Every Color
Awakening with Koans
Joan Sutherland
“In the beginning, the koans are teaching you how to have a relationship with them. They throw you back and forth between form and emptiness, until you’re completely off-balance. Then something relaxes, and you start to sway and flow with it, until eventually there’s no longer one side and another, just one whole world stretching in every direction.”