Programs
Retreat Cabin Application
The monastery retreat cabin rests on the edge of our 23 acres of forest. Though, just a short walk to the monastery buildings, it has a feeling of a forest hermitage. Equipped with running water, electricity, a small kitchenette with electric stovetop and small refrigerator and a compost toilet it is an ideal location for […]
October Sesshin - The Ancient Way
With Hogen Bays, Roshi, Patrick Bansho Green and Darah Shonin Ashton
There is something very special about the magic of autumn and the kicking off of the fall ango practice period that makes this sesshin so powerful. What a great gift it is to be able to sit together in silence. This is our longest sesshin of the year. The extra days enable us drop down […]
Home Hermitage - A Day Long Retreat Online
With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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. […]
Five Buddhist Precepts for Ethical Living - in person
With Kodo Conover
Autumn Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat
With Ed Gensho Welsh
Conflict Resolution and Political Depolarization
Loving Kindness Weekend Meditation Retreat
With wonderment on our side, and in relationship with all that is, we recognize the inherent compassion that springs forth from deep and sustained presence. Held in a container of zen forms and the soft silence of a monastery nestling into winter, we will explore the nature of being anything at all! This exploration will take place within the practices of […]
Doing The Work of Byron Katie
“Of all the diseases, all the ailments that afflict humanity, there is one common denominator: the conditioned mind. Our unconditioned minds are deeply interconnected." --Chakung Jigme Wangdrak "The Work is about internal cause and effect. It is not about the external world.” – Byron Katie This one-day in-person workshop at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple […]
Half Day Zazen Retreat & Ango Check-in
Half Day Zazen Retreat & Ango Check-in Saturday November 2 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Event is free; Suggested donation $10 if you stay for lunch This Ango check-in is a half day of Zen practice and an opportunity to share reflections on your Ango experience and ask a teacher questions about it. Join us […]
Community Gatherings on Election Night
Zen Community of Oregon will be hosting two events on election night this year. Firstly, Tuesday night at the Heart of Wisdom meets in person and online every week. You are most welcome to join on November 5th and enjoy the company of others during this eventful evening. Tuesday Evenings: 7:00PM to 9:00PM […]
November Sesshin - Gratitude
With Patrick Bansho Green and Sara Shinei Monial
With gratitude for our beloved sangha near and far, the Monastery joyfully offers another sesshin. This sesshin has no set price. All are welcome to attend, and donations from the heart are welcome. During this week of practice, we will eat only the offerings brought to us specifically for this retreat. So food donations, […]
Home Hermitage - A Day Long Retreat Online
With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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. […]
Half Day Zazen Retreat & Ango Check-in
Half Day Zazen Retreat & Ango Check-in Saturday November 23 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Optional Creative Process Time 1 - 3 PM Free This Ango check-in is a half day of Zen practice and an opportunity to share reflections on your Ango experience and ask a teacher questions about it. Join us for a […]
ZCO Board meeting November 2024
December Sesshin - Rohatsu
With Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi, Hogen Bays, Roshi and Larry Fuho Trussell
The light of the Buddha's awakening has not dimmed. This very moment, alive, awake and luminous. Each year people from all over the world gather to celebrate, to sit in stillness and to be nourished by this truth. All over the world people join in the ritual of Rohatsu sesshin. This sesshin is the […]
Beginner's Mind Weekend Meditation Retreat
With Laura Jomon Martin and Myoyu Haley Voekel
The teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism empower us to live our lives wholeheartedly with openness, insight and compassion. During this weekend retreat we follow a silent retreat schedule, which allows us to temporarily put aside outside concerns and go deeply into inner work. The silent retreat schedule includes about seven hours of sitting meditation […]
Vow Sesshin
With Hogen Bays, Roshi, Sara Shinei Monial and Patrick Bansho Green
From emptiness springs forth our deepest potential. When we are able to drop our ideas about who and what we are, we can recognize the infinite realm of possibility that has always been our playground. Reality before interpretation, before we start applying labels and identities, is vast and unbounded. From this space, we access […]
Pari-Nirvana Sesshin: A Meditation Retreat exploring Life, Death & the Unknown
With Amy Kisei, Sensei and Laura Jomon Martin
Zen meditation is an invitation to the unknown. During this sesshin we take up the Buddha's Parinirvana--the Buddha's death, as the essential inquiry into our own relationship with death, dying and the uncertainties of this life. How often in your daily life do you allow yourself to reflect on your own mortality, your own death? […]
March Sesshin - Deep Listening
With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei, Hogen Bays, Roshi and Anusha Enryu Fernando
May Sesshin - The Light of our Ancestors
With Amy Kisei, Sensei, Patrick Bansho Green and Ed Gensho Welsh
Zen is a direct Mind to Mind transmission--a transmission of light. We study with teachers who help us recognize and embody our awakened wisdom and compassion. During this sesshin, we will connect with our roots and draw strength from the stories of those who have come before us. Our ancestors are real people, walking the […]
June Sesshin - Loving Kindness
With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei and Laura Jomon Martin
Because of our past as well as presently existing beliefs and attitudes, our capacity to meet ourselves and life and the people, places and things within it, with an open heart, is probably not fully embodied. Buddha taught that love and friendliness can be developed immeasurably, and that there is only benefit in filling ourselves […]
July Sesshin - Summer Breeze
With Patrick Bansho Green, Danney Soten Lynch and Darah Shonin Ashton
Grasses, Trees, and the Great Earth Sesshin
With Amy Kisei, Sensei, Sara Shinei Monial and Myoyu Haley Voekel
Earth body, sky heart. Rooted and flowing. Luminous and open. We are made of earth and sky, of wind breath and rain song, our lives woven from the teachings of the natural world. This retreat is an opportunity to re-connect and relax into the wild, ancient, wisdom of the Grasses, Trees and Great Earth. We […]