Facilitated by Senior Student Reiko Rain Rue
Sundays, May 16-June 20
2:30pm - 3:30pm (online)

How do we attend to absence with presence? How do we take up the practice of wholeness? In this Community Circle we will be practicing with a few koans from The Hidden Lamp, a collection of teaching stories and reflections that attends to the invisibility of women ancestors and their wisdom.

Sunday May 30th
12:30pm - 3:00pm
(In person at the Temple)
Led by Senior Student Kogen

Kogen Houseknecht will offer a workshop on garden tool maintenance. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to bring a tool from home that needs some turning up. If you have any questions, please contact Kogen at krummholzpine@gmail.com

Tuesdays, 5/18 - 6/22
7:20pm - 8:30pm, (In-person and online)
Led by Novice Monk Genjo Yorke

Even within Buddhism, there are numerous teachings which invite us to cultivate a beautiful, contented human life. In our particular school, the Six Perfections are fundamental to understanding Zen practice and awakening.

Sunday mornings
8:45am - 9:50am

Led by: Dharma Teacher Myobun Esther Tishman
Wednesdays, 3/31 - 5/5
6:30pm - 8:00pm (online)

The world needs bodhisattvas now more than ever. How do we awaken together with all beings? Moreover, how do we do so while acknowledging systemic oppression, our individual scars, our individual complicities, our engrained and habitual confusions about power and liberation...?

Registration Closed

Community Circles are small groups of individuals (maximum of seven including facilitator) exploring their lives and experiences through sharing, compassionate listening, and the unfolding of the Dharma. Community Circles meet once a week and are facilitated by teachers and senior students of Buddha Eye Temple.

Led by: Novice Monk Genjo Mark Yorke
Tuesdays, 3/30 - 5/4
Zazen 6:30pm
Class: 7:20pm - 8:30pm (in-person and online)

Each of us yearns to live authentically, brightly; yet we find that our life is a dense thicket of desires, relationships, goals, and circumstances. How do we cultivate vibrancy amidst this tangle of choices we find ourselves spinning each day? Buddhist ethics invite us to look deeply and become intimate with our own connected heart.

To register please email us at office@buddhaeye.org

Led by Head Teacher Ejo McMullen
Thursdays, 2/11 - 3/18
6:30pm - 8:30pm

(Available in-person and online)

Listen to classes here.

During these six Thursday assemblies, Head Teacher Ejo McMullen will give subtle instructions on the continual exploration of the art of Zazen. Each Thursday will include instructions during meditation followed by time for questions and response.

Led by: Myobun Esther Freinkel Tishman
Wednesdays, 2/10 - 3/17
6:30pm - 8:00pm (online)

In all its turmoil, and all its promise, the world needs bodhisattvas now more than ever. How do we do this thing? How do we walk the path of the bodhisattva with fierce determination and gentle hearts?

Monthly, on the evening of the Full Moon

Friday, 2/26
6:30pm - 8:30pm

(Available in-person and online)

Fusatsu is a monthly ceremony of atonement and vow renewal, coinciding with the Full Moon. We begin with Zazen at 6:30 PM and then enact the Fusatsu ceremony, which concludes at roughly 8:30 PM. Noble silence is observed when entering and exiting the ceremony.

Tuesday 2/2
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Facilitated by members of the My Grandmother's Hands reading group
(Attend online)

The inspiration for this conversation came from the book, “My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies" by Resmaa Menakem, which encouraged a small group of us to reach out to the Eugene Police Department to learn more about training procedures, internal support, and how current events have impacted them.

For questions, please contact us at office@buddhaeye.org
No registration required.

Ongoing: Thursdays starting February 13th
6:30p - 8:30

Thursday Dharma Assembly provides a consistent touchstone of quiet sitting and dharma study throughout the year. There is a rotating schedule consisting of three formats: Double Sit with Sanzen, Teisho, and Dharma Inquiry. Please see the calendar for a specific schedule, and read this document for a detailed explanation. Dharma Assembly is open to everyone, no registration is required.

December 6th - 13th, 2020

According to our ancestors, Shakyamuni Buddha was enlightened on the 8th day of the 12th month over 2,500 years ago. To honor this awakening, we endeavor to enact the practice he took up under the Bodhi tree by participating in Sesshin (meditation intensive).

Sunday, 11/29
6:30pm
(Attend in-person or online)

Fusatsu is a monthly ceremony of atonement and vow renewal, coinciding with the Full Moon. We hold Zazen at 6:30 PM, followed by an individual atonement ceremony (participation is optional – may be done silently). Afterward is the Fusatsu ceremony, which concludes at roughly 8:30 PM. Please hold noble silence when arriving and exiting the temple.

Head Teacher Ejo McMullen
11/19
6:30pm
(Available in-person and online)

One period of zazen followed by Teisho (Formal Teaching) offered by the Abbott. Teisho is a classic style of Zen “Dharma Presentation,” as opposed to a more informal Dharma Talk, which is offered during Sunday morning assemblies. The evening ends with closing chants.

Join us in tending the temple gardens and grounds!

Thursdays, 5:30pm - 7:30 pm

Friday 10/30
6:30pm
(Available in-person and online)

Fusatsu is a monthly ceremony of atonement and vow renewal, coinciding with the Full Moon.

Thursday 10/15
6:30pm

Question & Response is a lively way to come together as a community. The teacher will offer a short invitation, often related to a teaching we are unfolding together from previous talks or classes. Community members will bring their questions forward as a way to explore the depths of the teaching as it is unfolding in their lives.