Soto Zen Practice in Vancouver, BC
Detailed guide to our 20th annual practice period, with registration for practice period and peer group sign-up. See separate pages for specific retreat registrations.
Harvest gratitude ceremony and thanksgiving potluck
Come share poetry practice together--everyone welcome!
A film offering solutions for fostering empathy and understanding through a justice-centered approach.
Our annual ceremony to offer the nourishment of the dharma to the hungry ghost realm. Part of our regular Wednesday evening practice.
A day retreat with Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shuso Myosen River Shannon
learn to make daifuku mochi
Let’s cultivate peace in our hearts.
A week-long intensive Zen retreat with Mountain Rain Zen’s guiding teachers and shuso Myosen River Shannon. REGISTRATION OPEN
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!
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
A day retreat with Shinmon Michael Newton at Bright Stream Temple.
This class is for those who are new to Soto Zen practice and those who have some experience and want to learn more.
TAKING WAITLIST!
Zen and Creative Practice: Slow Stitching with Kakuko Kaye
ZenYU’s (Young Urban Zen) annual day retreat.
A study group exploring dharma through the perspectives of world wisdom traditions. In-person and online.
We strive to provide an inclusive space that reflects intersectional experiences.
We would like to welcome a special guest, Rev. Gihan Unno, an international missionary for Soto Zen Japan.
Explore the lower Terminal Creek/Killarney Creek watershed within Crippen Regional Park
Members and newcomers are welcome—come and get acquainted or re-acquainted, hear what has been accomplished in 2024/5 and what is being planned for next term.
A calligraphy workshop with Shinmon Michael Newton
A Workshop Series on Creativity, Presence, and Practice
Please join the Mountain Rain sangha for a light-hearted evening of music, stories, skits and poetry Live at the Wall St. zendo, with Zoom also available, for audience and performers.
We strive to provide an inclusive space that reflects intersectional experiences.
A study group exploring dharma through the perspectives of world wisdom traditions. In-person and online.
This daylong journey along the spiral of connection progresses through a structured process to support participants move from despair to empowerment.
Learn more about the MRZC Endowment Fund
Waitlist is full. You are always welcome to join us in the cloud zendo!
Join the Engaged Buddhist Practice Group on an urban nature walk!
Zen Engaged Dharma (ZED) talk by Kokai Michael Drebert on Gardening and the Wild.
Jukai: A ceremony of receiving the bodhisattva precepts.
A day of compassion practice. Myoshin Kate McCandless will guide the Tibetan Buddhist practice of tonglen.
Mountain Rain Zen Community
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Banner: Blue Mountains Walking by Bruce Shotoku Nielsen (2013)
