Events
Friday Morning Meetings
Online & In-Person
8 -9:30am PDT
Link: Join On Zoom
Meeting ID: 868 2409 2647
Passcode: heartzen
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.
April – May, 2026
Fridays April 3, 10, 17 & 25
How To Cook Your Life
From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
By Zen Master Dogen
Commentary by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
“From ancient times, in communities practicing the Buddha’s Way, there have been six offices established to oversee the affairs of the community. The monks holding each office are all disciples of the Buddha and carry out the activities of a buddha through their respective offices. Among these officers is the tenzo, who carries the responsibility of preparing the community’s meals.”
Reading Aloud Group
Schedule April 2026
Monday, April 13
3 – 4:30pm (PT)
Link: Join On Zoom
Meeting ID: 868 2409 2647
Passcode: heartzen
To explore and learn more about creating compassionate community, we offer a spiritual reading group now online (together) on the second Tuesday of each month.
We gather, sit for a few minutes, read to each other for 20-30 minutes from Through Forests of Every Color and then share in a discussion. Bring a cup of tea!
Winter 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.”