Daily Events

Open Meditation  
Thu and Fri, 6:15 - 7:15 AM
Everyday, 5:15-6:15 PM

Tai Ji Quan 
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Mornings, 7:15- 8:45 AM
Guang Ping Yang Style
Instructor: Futung Cheng

Weekly Events

Saturday Night Avatamsaka Sutra Lecture
Saturdays, 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Also available via live streaming (webcast) from Berkeley Monastery
Lecturer: Rev. Heng Sure

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.

Thursday Night Meditation Practice, Teachings, and Community
2nd and 4th Thursday of the month starting October 10, 2024
7:30 - 9 PM Pacific Time
Instructors: James Baraz and Eve Decker
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

In-person gathering at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, 2304 McKinley Ave., Berkeley. Or, people can join us online using the usual Zoom link.

Learning from Buddhist Rituals
Buddhist meditation has become associated with silent sitting practice, but historically much of it took the form of group rituals and related prayers. This course will examine some of these rituals considering ways of applying—living—the unique insights and “practice” opportunities they represent. The discussion should be accessible and hopefully relevant to anyone, regardless of background and religious/secular orientation.

Dates: Weekly from September 24 through December 24
Time: Wednesday evenings on Zoom, 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Pacific Time.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82922851482

Meeting ID: 829 2285 1482
Passcode: 219267

Friday Night Meditation & Avatamsaka Sutra 

Classes resume September 27th, 2024.
Time: Fridays 7:30-9 p.m.
​​Instructor: Professor Martin Verhoeven

The class will examine the practices and path set forth by the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Sutra, which describes a cosmos of infinite realms upon realms, mutually containing one another. The text touches on various topics such as the Bodhisattva path, the interpenetration of phenomena (dharmas), the visionary powers of meditation and the equality of things in emptiness.

Also available via live streaming (webcast) from Berkeley Monastery

Monthly Events

First Tuesday with Abhayagiri Monks

Date: First Tuesday of every month
Times: 5pm (Tea Time)
            7:30pm - 9:45 (Dhamma Talk)
Speaker(s): Monks from Abhayagiri Monastery

Please join us for a Dhamma evening with the Monks from Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery. At 5pm there is an informal time to ask questions of the monks over tea, and then at 7:30pm, there will be chanting, meditation, followed by a Dhamma talk. All are welcome.