Date: Sunday, June 11, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Pacific Time)
* Find the time in your time zone (link).

To participate, to have the Sangha read your name during the ceremony, please register here.

Location: 
 * In-Person at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery
 * Youtube Channel: Dharma Realm Live
 * Zoom: BBM Online Link
  
Recitation Sheet (PDF)

Berkeley Buddhist Monastery is hosting Vesak - Shakyamuni Buddha's Birthday Ceremony, in-person and online via YouTube and Zoom. In this ceremony, we bathe the baby Shakyamuni Buddha as we also reflect on purifying our own Buddha-nature. This is a chance to renew ourselves.

The BBM Sangha invites you to participate and generate the merit and virtue of bathing the Buddha. If you wish to take part, please register here. For those attending in-person, you can bathe the Buddha yourself. For those online, the monks will read out your names as we bathe the Buddha on your behalf. While the names are being read, wherever you might be, we invite you to bow three times to Shakyamuni Buddha. In this way we can bring the Vesak ceremony virtually to wherever you are in the world.

NOTE: You can fill out this form multiple times if you are registering on someone else's behalf who will also be attending the ceremony.

Schedule

• Welcome and Introduction
• Incense Praise (English)
• Heart Sutra
• Maha Prajna Paramita (3x)
• Praise the Buddha (English)
• Bow to Shakyamuni Buddha (3x)
• Three Refuges
• Verse for Bathing Buddha (3x)
• Mantra for Bathing Buddha
• Bathe the Buddha (while reading out names)
• Dedication of Merit

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浴佛節: 釋迦牟尼佛聖誕法會

日期: 2023年06月11日星期天
時間: 下午3點至4點 (太平洋時間)
  *全球時區查詢連結 (請點選)
 
地點:
 *Youtube 頻道: Dharma Realm Live
 *Zoom: 柏克萊佛寺網頁
 
參加法會者,僧團會點你的名，所以欲參加者請點這個連結註冊。
 
法會儀軌手冊

柏克萊佛寺將在現場以及通過Youtube 和 Zoom主持浴佛法會, 以慶祝釋迦牟尼佛聖誕。在法會中, 藉著沐浴悉達多太子像, 我們迴光返照並清淨自己的佛性。這是一個重新作人, 脫胎換骨的機會。

本寺僧團邀請您共襄勝舉, 共修浴佛功德。您可以親自來本寺，或者在線上參加。欲參加者, 請點擊連結註冊報名。在浴佛法會中, 不管您身在何處, 我們邀請您先線上禮佛三拜,  之後比丘們將會代表您浴佛, 並一一念出所有參與者的姓名。在居家避疫期間, 我們透過這樣的儀式, 將線上浴佛典禮帶到您的眼前。

備註: 如果您代替他人註冊, 您可以重複填寫報名表格。他們也需要參加儀式。阿彌陀佛！

法會流程

• Welcome and Introduction 歡迎暨介紹
• Incense Praise (English) 爐香讚 (英文版)
• Heart Sutra 心經
• Maha Prajna Paramita (3x) 摩訶般若波羅蜜多 (三稱)
• Praise the Buddha (English) 讚佛偈 (英文版)
• Bow to Shakyamuni Buddha (3x) 頂禮釋迦牟尼佛 (三拜)
• Three Refuges 三皈依
• Verse for Bathing Buddha (3x) 浴佛讚偈 (三遍)
• Mantra for Bathing Buddha  浴佛真言
• Bathe the Buddha (while reading out names) 浴佛 (一邊會點名)
• Dedication of Merit 迴向

Dates: Saturday, July 22, 3:00 PM – Saturday, July 29, 9:00 PM, 2023

Apply for Retreat

We find ourselves in times of unprecedented uncertainties in society, in the natural world, and often in ourselves. In the midst of unease and anxiety, where can we find a reliable refuge? How can we create an inner sanctuary capable of withstanding external instabilities? And how can we expand this sanctuary of the heart to include our families, friends, and ultimately, all living beings?

As a method that has been practiced for thousands of years, reciting Guan Yin Bodhisattva's name opens the door to the innate, everlasting refuge within. Invoked in times of danger and uncertainty, the quality of a compassionate heart and the wisdom of skillful means have the potential to turn peril into safety and fear into courage. Come join us in the woods of Buddha Root Farm, where we recite the name of Guan Yin and return to the refuge within.

For more details, please visit retreat website.

Also available via live streaming (webcast) from Berkeley Monastery
Lecturer: Rev. Heng Sure (or DRBA monks and nuns)

Every Saturday night, the Berkeley Monastery community gathers to listen to a lecture on the Flower Adornment Sutra.  We investigate the sutra text line by line and endeavor to bring its ancient wisdom up to date for our modern lives in the 21st century.

For more class info: 
Please Click Here.

Our online ceremonies, including noon recitation will cancelled until 6/25/2023. We will begin streaming again on June 25, 2023. Wish you a Happy New Year!

​If you wish to practice on your own, here are the following recordings:

• Morning Ceremony - English
• Morning Ceremony - Chinese
• Three Steps One Bow
• Afternoon Amitabha Recitation
• Evening Ceremony - English
• Evening Ceremony - Chinese (recommend skipping Meng Shan Offering)

Link to Entire BBM Online Schedule 

Register Here to Join BBM Online

Next Date: June 25, (not in July), Aug 27, Sept 24, 2023 (Last Sun of Month)
Time: 6:30-7:30am 
​YouTube: Dharma Realm Live Channel
Zoom: BBM Online (register for link)

Please join us in dedicating the merit of our recitation of the Great Compassion Mantra to all living beings, especially those suffering due to the pandemic. This Dedication of Merit Ceremony is only once a month. Our regular daily practice consists of meditation and Three Steps, One Bow. See BBM Online schedule.

If you would like to sign up to recite the Great Compassion Mantra on your own throughout the month, please do so here:​​ Great Compassion Mantra Recitation Form (link)

​Vietnamese Translation Available
Zoom link: Join Here
Meeting ID: 879 7769 2844
Passcode: 922407

Rev. Heng Sure will continue to explain the Ten Transferences Chapter on Sunday evening.
星期日晚上實法師將繼續講解華嚴經十迴向品。

加州時間星期日晚上, Sundays 7:30 – 9:00 pm, California time
(亞洲時間星期一, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Asia time)
 
Title: Avatamsaka Sutra, Chapter 25 Ten Transferences
講題：華嚴經十迴向品第二十五
Speaker主講：Rev. Heng Sure 恒實法師
 
Zoom link  連結：https://zoom.us/j/92985199033?pwd=VWc4TnFxWDZsUnlsenJzR2hYOHREQT09
Meeting ID: 929 8519 9033  Passcode 密碼: 95482
 
Vietnamese Translation 越語翻譯 Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87977692844?pwd=RERxcFBnL2NyNmpqcGRVQTFteXZtZz09
Meeting ID: 879 7769 2844  Passcode: 922407
 

Live stream on YouTube 直播:  https://youtube.com/live/QEM_3BhT8IA?feature=share


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BBM is opening our morning and afternoon meditation times on Thursday and Friday.

Dates: Thursdays and Fridays
Times: 6:15-7:15am (morning) and 5:15-6:15pm (evening)

Please arrive between before the sit starts, 6:00-6:15am or 5:00-5:15pm. We will keep the door closed at 6:15am in the morning and 5:15pm in the evening. We ask people who come to stay for the entire sit.

Looking forward to meditating with you!

Date/Time: Fri, 1:00-2:00pm (CA)
Speaker: Rev. Heng Sure

Rev. Heng Sure gives lectures on the Song of Enlightenment.
​
​The lecture will be in English, with Chinese and Vietnamese translation.

Please Register Here

Wisdom and Compassion are central themes in Mahayana Buddhism. This course will emphasize the day-to-day practice of mindfulness and how it supports the cultivation of wisdom as understood within several Buddhist schools. It will be tentative and experimental, because some Buddhist versions of “wisdom” easily elude the ordinary mind. But perhaps it can prepare participants for moments in which advanced insight may spontaneously emerge during ordinary life. The course is suitable for beginners, but open to anyone interested in the subject.

On break - Dates: Weekly from January 25 through May 10, 2023.
Time: Wednesday evenings on Zoom, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Pacific Time.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86383328221

Meeting ID: 863 8332 8221
Passcode: 189766

Berkeley Buddhist Monastery is offering daily ceremonies, meditation, and teachings online.
​
Link to Entire BBM Online Schedule 

Register Here to Join​