Featured Events

Donate Medical Relief for Ukraine Refugees in Poland

Open Dates

Help provide medical care for Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Poland. Your donation will be matched by a generous donor in the ZCO community. Kanzeon Sangha in Poland,which is part of our White Plum lineage of Zen Buddhism, and the Malgosia Braunek "BE" Foundation is asking for help.  They are collecting money to support […]

Home Hermitage - A Day Long Retreat Online

With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

May 18, 2025
Online

We will spend a day meditating in the intimate aloneness that embraces all beings. Doing sustained zazen in our own dwelling place and its wild domesticity invites the desired integration of the everyday and the sacred. […]

Silver Dragons Monthly Gathering - Practicing Impermanence (Online)

With Kodo Conover

May 28, 2025
Online Only

Zoom Only In her Dharma Talk “Diving into Impermanence,”Chozen Roshi taught: Impermanence is not just a teaching, it is also a practice. (You can view her Dharma talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuHczgCFWaY) These monthly gatherings are offered for Silver Dragons that is, people 60 and older, to provide an opportunity to co-create an open conversation about dying, […]

Great Vow Work Party

May 30, 2025
Great Vow Zen Monastery
Working together is part of our spiritual practice, and allows us to honor and care for the sacred space that Heart of Wisdom provides in our city. Please join with community for this morning of practice and work together.

Jizo Ceremony for those Who Have Died

With Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi

May 31, 2025
Great Vow Zen Monastery
The loss of a child often opens a well of profound grief. No matter how the child dies, suddenly or slowly, whether through illness, accident, miscarriage, abortion, or suicide, our sorrow is deep and may be long-lasting.

Drop of Stillness - 1/2 day retreat

With Kosho Ault, Linda Chōon Frischmeyer and Onkatsu Doug Kagel

May 31, 2025
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple

Touch into the still point at the center amidst our busy schedules. This silent retreat will include seated and walking meditation, chanting service, and movement practice. Join us for a half-day of simply sitting. ~ Tentative Schedule  8 - 8:50 am Zazen meditation 8:50 am Kinhin walking meditation 9:00 am Zazen 9:50 am Chanting service […]

Silver Dragons Monthly Gathering - Practicing Impermanence (Online)

With Kodo Conover

June 25, 2025
Online Only

Zoom Only In her Dharma Talk “Diving into Impermanence,”Chozen Roshi taught: Impermanence is not just a teaching, it is also a practice. (You can view her Dharma talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuHczgCFWaY) These monthly gatherings are offered for Silver Dragons that is, people 60 and older, to provide an opportunity to co-create an open conversation about dying, […]

Mindful Eating Weekend Retreat

With Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi

June 27 - 29, 2025
Great Vow Zen Monastery

It can be so easy to lose touch with the basic joys of our life.  With eating, the simple exploration of texture, smell, taste and touch, can bring us into deep presence and ease. What is it like to truly taste a raisin? How often do we just eat, without a cellphone or radio, without […]

Summer Residency Program 2025

July 8 - August 17, 2025
Great Vow Zen Monastery
The Summer Program at Great Vow Zen Monastery is an opportunity to plunge into Zen practice with the support of community and teachers, and to taste the benefits of calming the mind and opening the heart. Our Summer Program is a special part of our on-going residential program at the monastery. It is designed to give you a genuine immersion in Zen practice, through the practices of meditation, mindful eating. ritual/liturgy, movement practices (yoga/qi gong), and temple work.

Five Buddhist Precepts for Ethical Living: Online Class Series

With Darah Shonin Ashton

July 9 - August 13, 2025
Online
These one hour online 5 Precepts classes will happen every Wednesday for six weeks. We all want to live a compassionate life. The precepts give us a framework for what it means to live an ethical life. More then a set of rules to follow, the precepts are deep inquiries into the actual living of our lives with attention and love. The format is an introductory talk followed by class discussion. Participants will be encouraged to do a short writing on each precept and practice with the precept during the week. There are also some supplemental readings.

Chant for Peace at Heart of Wisdom

August 30, 2025
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple

INTERFAITH CHANT FOR PEACE AT HEART OF WISDOM ZEN TEMPLE, PORTLAND OREGON   TIME: 9:00am - 9:00pm LOCATION: Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple ADDRESS: 6401 NE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97211, USA To join via Zoom, click here Awake with a passion for inner and global transformation, this 12-hour chanting vigil is a celebration of our spiritual aspirations […]