Events
The Perfection of Meditation
Fridays March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2026
The sixth and final Paramita is “The Perfection of Wisdom,” in The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path. Richard Gere comments on the Wisdom of Happiness in a recent Lion’s Roar article: “We all want to be happy, but we have different definitions of what that is. That’s why we have these conflicts in the world: We have different ideas of how the world should be to make us happy.”
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.
March 2026
The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path
by Norman Fischer
“Spiritual practice is one of the key sites of Imagination… It leaps from the known to the unknown, soaring beyond facts to visions and intensities… It plays in the deep end, where heart and love hold sway.”
In March we are reading the chapter on The Perfection of Wisdom, Prajna Paramita.
This is a book of Norman’s everyday teachings on the Buddha’s Six Perfections (Paramitas) — Generosity, Ethical Conduct, Patience, Joyful Effort, Meditation, and Understanding. We will be reading approximately one chapter a month through March, 2026.
Reading Aloud Group
Schedule March 2026
Monday, March 9
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.”