Calendar & Events
Daily Practice Schedule:
4:20 Wake Up
4:50 Zazen
6:20 Service
7:00 Daikinhin
8:00 Soji (temple caretaking)
8:30 Buffet Breakfast
9:30 Work
12:50 Service
1:00 Lunch
2pm Work
3:50 Service
6:30 Zazen (Noble silence begins at 6pm)
8:00 Closing Chant
*Tuesday late start, 7am zazen
*Saturday includes our morning public program 10am-1:30pm with a work-party 2:30 -5 & Dinner 5pm (no work party after sesshin weeks)
Our daily practice schedule is open to the public Tuesday-Saturday. We are closed Sunday and Monday. Please reach out to bellsmountaincenter@gmail.com or call us at 503-308-3139 if you would like to come for a visit or join for daily practice (any non-retreat day).
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Weekly Events
Sunday Morning Public Program
10am-1:30pm
Please join us any Sunday morning for zazen meditation, walking meditation, a chanting/singing service, a dharma talk, and a vegetarian lunch.
Schedule:
10am Service
10:30 Zazen/Kinhin
11:40 Dharma Talk
12:30 Lunch
Cost: By donation
October 2026
10/23-10/25 Autumn Leaves Weekend Retreat
November 2026
11/4-11/7 Working Together: 3 Days of Work, Practice & Community
11/7 All Day Workparty & Evening Sound Bath
December 2026
12/1-12/28 Closed
12/31 New Years Ceremony & Celebration
January 2027
1/3-1/10 Touching Winter Sesshin
1/16 Precept Study, an 8 Week, Bi-weekly Class Series (Registration Opening Soon!)