Winter Solstice Celebration
Part of our regular Sunday morning practice schedule. Everyone welcome!
Soto Zen Practice in Vancouver, BC
Part of our regular Sunday morning practice schedule. Everyone welcome!
Our annual NYE event - sitting and chanting for peace on Earth.
Zazen (sitting meditation), kinhin (walking meditation) and practice forms with Dai-i Flo Rublee.
Many Communities - One Sangha
Opening weekend of our annual Dogen study intensive , with MRZC guiding teachers. Day retreat by registration. Sunday morning open to all.
Closing weekend with MRZC guiding teachers. Day retreat by registration. Sunday morning practice and afternoon jukai ceremony open to all.
A ceremony of receiving the bodhisattva precepts.
Let’s give the zendo a deep clean!
A sitting group for racialized folks
A sharing circle to close our practice period.
A week-long intensive Zen retreat with Mountain Rain Zen’s guiding teachers and shuso Myosen River Shannon.
Reading and book launch with Zenshin Florence Caplow
A workshop with Zenshin Florence Caplow, in person and online.
Come help rake and spread leaves as garden mulch.
learn to make daifuku mochi
A day retreat with Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shuso Myosen River Shannon
Our annual ceremony to offer the nourishment of the dharma to the hungry ghost realm. Part of our regular Wednesday evening practice.
A film offering solutions for fostering empathy and understanding through a justice-centered approach.
Come share poetry practice together--everyone welcome!
Harvest gratitude ceremony and thanksgiving potluck
Practice period opening weekend retreat with Mountain Rain Zen’s guiding teachers and shuso Myosen River Shannon.
A four-day sesshin with Mountain' Rain’s guiding teachers to open our 2025 practice period.
Everyone welcome!
Detailed guide to our 25th annual practice period, with registration for practice period and peer group sign-up. See separate pages for specific retreat registrations.
Traditional form of storytelling from Japan with Naomi Steinberg, Mountain Rain’s administrator. Families welcome!
When things seem to fall apart, on multiple scales, and when no thing seems to work how can embodied practices be pathways to collective care, healing and transformation?
Zen and Creative Practice with Tosho Megan Adam
A day retreat with Shinmon Michael Newton at Bright Stream Temple.
This class is for those who are new to Soto Zen practice and those who have some experience and want to learn more.
TAKING WAITLIST!
Zen and Creative Practice: Slow Stitching with Kakuko Kaye
ZenYU’s (Young Urban Zen) annual day retreat.
A study group exploring dharma through the perspectives of world wisdom traditions. In-person and online.
We strive to provide an inclusive space that reflects intersectional experiences.
We would like to welcome a special guest, Rev. Gihan Unno, an international missionary for Soto Zen Japan.
Mountain Rain Zen Community
Creative Commons Canada License
Banner: Blue Mountains Walking by Bruce Shotoku Nielsen (2013)