Daily Events

Open Meditation  
Thu and Fri, 6:15 - 7:15 AM / 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.

Saturday Morning and Afternoon Programs
(Postponed due to pandemic)
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Great Compassion Repentance Ceremony and Universal Door Chapter Ceremony
  9:00 - 10:30 AM
Vegetarian Meal
  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Buddha's Name Recitation
  1:00 - 2:00 PM
Beginning Chinese Class and Calligraphy
  3:30 - 5:00 PM

Thursday Night Vipassana Meditation
Weekly 7:30 - 9:30 PM 
Instructor: James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

Meet every Thursday from 7:30 to 9:30 pm to meditate, connect, and to hear and discuss the Dharma.

Because of the coronavirus, we are now holding our Thursday evening sittings and talks online by Zoom until further notice. We will share a meditation, followed by a short talk and Q & A at 7:30pm.

Zoom Link: Join Here
(Meeting ID 460 493 377; Passcode: 029590)

Qigong and Classical Yoga
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Instructor: Amelia Barili

Date/Time: Saturdays

• 11:00-12:00pm (en Español)
• 2:00-3:00pm (in English)

Please join via Zoom link. A new link will be given every Friday at Amelia's website (link).

Traditional Taoist and Yogic contemplative techniques to cultivate integration of body, mind and spirit, and to foster healing, inner guidance and inner strength. The time spent practicing these simple and remarkably effective techniques will be returned and multiplied by your growing ability to overcome challenges, live fully--even in the face of uncertainty--and experience balance and well being. For additional info, please check Amelia's website (link) or email ameliab@berkeley.edu.

Cultivating Virtue
This course will consider a wide range of virtues emphasized in different cultures, and encourage participants to select a few and experiment with their actual practice. For example, the cultivation of patience has always been central to Buddhist training. How do such virtues support both basic and advanced contemplative practice? How do they contribute to having a meaningful life? And what are the obstacles and challenges to such cultivation nowadays? Consideration of these issues will be based both on participants’ personal investigations and traditional perspectives.

Dates: Weekly from September 20 through December 13, 2023.
Time: Wednesday evenings on Zoom, 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Pacific Time.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87571457728

Meeting ID: 875 7145 7728
Passcode: 409421

On break - Friday Night Meditation & Avatamsaka Sutra 

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

ON BREAK - Teance Tea & Dharma Night with Rev. Heng Sure

Date and Time: Please check calendar for updates.
Location: Teance Tea Shop at 1780 Fourth Street, Berkeley, CA
Fee: Free

Every month, usually at the last Tuesday, Rev. Heng Sure host a Tea and Dharma night at the Teance Tea Shop at Berkeley for a casual gathering talking about current events, tell stories, accompanied with music and fine tea.
Please come join us for delicious tea and stimulating stories and songs!

You may see here for pictures from previous gatherings.

Walking-Recitation - (Postponed due to pandemic) 
Date: 1st Sunday of the month

Time
7:20am-7:30am 
7:30am-11:30am 
11:30am-12:45pm 
12:45pm-4:45pm 
4:45pm-5:00pm 
5:00pm-6:00pm

Place
Buddha Hall 
Buddha Hall 
Dining Hall 
Buddha Hall 
Buddha Hall 
Dining Hall

Activity
Ready to start 
Walking-Recitation 
Lunch 
Walking-Recitation 
Transference
Share experience; tea/snack

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.  

Monthly Dharma Sharing with Aloka Vihara Monastics on 4th Sundays (ONLINE)

6:00 PM Informal gathering
6:30 PM Teaching & Meditation
8:30 PM Closing

ANNOUNCEMENT: during the pandemic our regular 4th Sunday teachings will be offered online only.

For dates & more information please visit our website: www.alokavihara.org

Ayya Santacitta and Ayya Anandabodhi have both been practicing meditation for over 25 years. After living as nuns in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah for many years, they took bhikkhuni ordination in 2011. They currently reside at Aloka Vihara near Placerville, CA, a training monastery for women. Their teaching style is practice oriented and draws from experience of community life as a means for cultivating the heart and opening the mind.

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