buddhist practice

February Special Services

Nirvana Day (Nehan-e 涅槃会): February 16, 2025 at 9:30am (Family Service) and 10:15am (Adult Service) This is a memorial service for Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of what we know today as Buddhism. Memorial services help us to contemplate impermanence, but they are also occasions for us to express gratitude to the one who has gone […]

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Meditative Listening Sessions

Meditative Listening Sessions are held on the 2nd Sunday of each month, following Adult Service. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “meditation” means “the continuous application of the mind to the contemplation of some religious truth.” The historical Buddha Sakyamuni realized enlightenment by awakening to the truth of interconnectedness, that everyone and everything

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