Soto Zen Practice in Vancouver, BC
Open to those staying at Bright Stream Temple, and commute-from-home participants. Also online.
Buddha’s birthday celebration! All welcome.
Please join the sangha to celebrate Earth Day. Bring readings, poetry, songs and visual art for a sharing circle. We will close by chanting the Ecological Precepts.
Garden flowers to decorate the altars, and snacks for refreshments to follow are welcome.
Part of our regular Wednesday evening practice schedule.
With Roshin Carmen Mills and Nin-en Susan Elbe.
Non-residential silent retreat suitable for both beginners and experienced students.
Our seven day Summer intensive.
Traditionally the most intensive sesshin of the year.
A ceremony of receiving the bodhisattva precepts.
Closing weekend with MRZC guiding teachers. Day retreat by registration. Sunday morning practice and afternoon jukai ceremony open to all.
Ceremony to commemorate the Buddha’s death and attainment of Nirvana
Opening weekend of our annual Dogen study intensive , with MRZC guiding teachers. Day retreat by registration. Sunday morning open to all.
A 5-week practice intensive focusing on the teachings of Dogen Zenji. Open to all. No registration required. Sign up here if you’d like to participate in a peer discussion group.
An inclusive space that reflects intersectional experiences, open to all meditators regardless of experience.
Many Communities - One Sangha
Zazen (sitting meditation), kinhin (walking meditation) and practice forms with Dai-i Flo Rublee.
Our annual NYE event - sitting and chanting for peace on Earth. In-person and online.
Part of our regular Sunday morning practice schedule. Everyone welcome!
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
Mountain Rain Zen Community
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Banner: Blue Mountains Walking by Bruce Shotoku Nielsen (2013)
