Picture

Visit our Event Calendar to see the latest updates.

Daily Events

Open Meditation 
Daily 6:15 - 7:15 AM and 5:15 - 6:15 PM 

Tai Ji Quan
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday Mornings, 6:30 - 8:00 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
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: https://zoom.us/j/460493377.
Qigong and Classical Yoga
​
Instructor: Amelia Barili

Traditional Taoist and Yogic contemplative techniques to cultivate integration of body, mind and spirit, and to foster blissful clarity and healing. 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. To pre-register or additional info, please check the https://ameliabarili.com site or email ameliab@berkeley.edu
CLASS: Wednesday Night Meditation with Steven Tainer

Weekly 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Instructor: Steven Tainer

Selected Dharma Topics for Daily Practice

A discussion and experiential exploration of primary Dharma points, drawn from the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism. Emphasis is placed on daily life applications and meditation practice, especially insights regarding the nature of reality, compassion and ethics. Each class meeting will include one or two guided meditation sessions, based on handouts.

Please join via Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89215997774
Friday Night Meditation & Talk with Marty:
Class postponed for this semester. We will resume in Spring 2021.

Weekly 7:30 - 9:00 PM
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 - Give Yourself and the World a Bright and Peaceful Day 
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
Monthly gathering with monks from Abhayagiri Monastery
Date: First Tuesday of every month
Times: 5pm (Tea Time)
            7:30pm - 9:45 (Dhamma Talk)
Lecturer: Monks from Abhayagiri Monastery

Please join us for a Dhamma evening with the Monks from Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery. 
The program starting at 7:30 pm will include Chanting, Meditation, taking of the Refuges and Precepts, and a Dhamma talk.  All are welcome.
Monthly Nuns Sharing Dharma [ONLINE]

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Aloka Vihara Nuns are offering our 3rd Sunday teaching at Berkeley on Zoom during this time of ‘shelter in place.’ 

Please visit the Aloka Vihara website (link) for details.

======================

Ayya Anandabodhi &  Ayya Santacitta, two Buddhist nuns resident at Aloka Vihara, SF are offering an evening meditation, Dhamma reflection, and dialogue on the 3rd Sunday of every month at BBM.

6:00 - 7:15pm Tea & Conversation
7:30 - 9:00pm Meditation, Precepts & Dhamma Reflection 

Dates for 2020: Jan 19*, Feb 16*, March 15*, April 19, May 17, June 21,
July 19, Aug 16, Sept 20, Oct 18, Nov 15 and Dec 20, 2020
* Guest teacher Ayya Santussika www.karunabv.org

Websites:  Download flyer (PDF)


Picture
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. For more info, visit www.saranaloka.org.
Picture
* Guest teacher Ayya Santussika began monastic life in 2005 after training and practicing as an interfaith minister. She ordained as bhikkhuni in 2012 and currently resides at Karuna Buddhist Vihara in Mountain View. She focuses on applying the Dhamma to our global challenges and our daily lives and is a board member of Buddhist Global Relief. For more information, visit Karuna Buddhist Vihara.