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Grand Rapids Buddhist Temple

We are an American Temple. We are accessible to our community, we offer practical applications of the Buddha’s teaching. meditation begins
7 p.m.

We strive to have a warm and inviting temple where everyone is welcome regardless of spiritual traditions. Buddhism in the Heart of Grand Rapids:

The Grand Rapids Buddhist Temple (GRBT) is an American temple. We emphasize the interdependence and interbeing of all things, the emptiness of all phenomena, the inherent Buddha nature in all beings, and the bodhisattva aspiration. Additionally, we stre

ss inclusiveness and a living experience of the buddhadharma. We strive to bring the buddhadharma to the everyday lives of the Sangha. Our Sangha is primarily made up of folks who have full time jobs and families so we emphasize practical applications of the Buddha’s teaching. We offer a full array of basic and advanced classes, regular meditation periods, and special services. We also are a social group and meet frequently as a community for potlucks and discussions. We strive to have a warm and welcoming temple where everyone is welcome regardless of spiritual tradition or life style choice. Children are always welcome to our services and we provide children’s activities during our Sunday services September through May. Additional Programming:

Buddhist Based 12 Step Recovery Meetings:

Mondays
6:30 p.m. meeting begins
Meets at the Temple

Wednesdays at Alano Club, 1020 College NE
6:30 p.m. meeting begins

Fridays
10 a.m. meditation begins
10:30 a.m. meeting begins
Meets at the Temple

06/04/2026

Join us this Sunday, June 7th, as we celebrate the ongoing journey and work of our friend Upaya Jeff Filo by witnessing his ordination as a Dharma teacher in the Heartside MIndfulness School of Mahayana Buddhism at the Grand Rapids Buddhist Temple. We are so Proud of you Upaya! Join us after in the community room for a potluck gathering. Bring a vegetarian dish to share or just your appetite!

Sunday Service
9:00 a.m. Dharma Hall setup (all are welcome to join)
9:30 a.m. Morning chant
10:00 a.m. Service begins
11-11:30 a.m. Social time

Join us in person or if you can’t make it, Sunday services are live-streamed and can be viewed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fhh9twPzX4DtNoUzPuCGg?reload=9

Or on Zoom
Zoom information:
Meeting ID: 915 9282 1333
Passcode: 089654

Follow along using the Rituals and Practices Handbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLpgMDxGyU9tFb_nQcvmzXIOEf98c3Ub/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We care about your comfort. Michigan weather can change quickly especially as the seasons change. The temperature in the temple may also fluctuate. So for your comfort, wear layers of clothes that you can add or shed. Please wear socks or borrow from our clean socks basket.

In the event of severe weather:
Please check for closing announcements at: https://www.woodtv.com/weather/closings-and-delays/ or on WOOD TV8.
We will also try to send out e-alerts and post on social media platforms.

sangha buddhism buddhist sundayservice sunday mindfulness practice bodhisattva sutra bodhisattvas bodhisattvavow dharmatalk shakyamuni shakyamunibuddha

05/29/2026

“The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete.”

Join dharma teacher Zee Ní Bhraonáin to explore refuge and the wisdom of learning how to soften. A reflection on compassion, exhaustion, and returning to refuge again and again.

Sunday Service
9:00 a.m. Dharma Hall setup (all are welcome to join)
9:30 a.m. Morning chant
10:00 a.m. Service begins
11-11:30 a.m. Social time

Join us in person or if you can’t make it, Sunday services are live-streamed and can be viewed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fhh9twPzX4DtNoUzPuCGg?reload=9

Or on Zoom
Zoom information:
Meeting ID: 915 9282 1333
Passcode: 089654

Follow along using the Rituals and Practices Handbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLpgMDxGyU9tFb_nQcvmzXIOEf98c3Ub/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We care about your comfort. Michigan weather can change quickly especially as the seasons change. The temperature in the temple may also fluctuate. So for your comfort, wear layers of clothes that you can add or shed. Please wear socks or borrow from our clean socks basket.

In the event of severe weather:
Please check for closing announcements at: https://www.woodtv.com/weather/closings-and-delays/ or on WOOD TV8.
We will also try to send out e-alerts and post on social media platforms.

05/23/2026

In Soto Zen, the tension between 'holding to tradition' and 'letting go' isn't really a contradiction - it's more like two sides of the same practice. Join Rev. Mūshō for a talk about holding loosely to wholehearted practice.

Sunday Service
9:00 a.m. Dharma Hall setup (all are welcome to join)
9:30 a.m. Morning chant
10:00 a.m. Service begins
11-11:30 a.m. Social time

Join us in person or if you can’t make it, Sunday services are live-streamed and can be viewed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fhh9twPzX4DtNoUzPuCGg?reload=9

Or on Zoom
Zoom information:
Meeting ID: 915 9282 1333
Passcode: 089654

Follow along using the Rituals and Practices Handbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLpgMDxGyU9tFb_nQcvmzXIOEf98c3Ub/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We care about your comfort. Michigan weather can change quickly especially as the seasons change. The temperature in the temple may also fluctuate. So for your comfort, wear layers of clothes that you can add or shed. Please wear socks or borrow from our clean socks basket.

In the event of severe weather:
Please check for closing announcements at: https://www.woodtv.com/weather/closings-and-delays/ or on WOOD TV8.
We will also try to send out e-alerts and post on social media platforms.

sangha buddhism buddhist sundayservice sunday mindfulness practice bodhisattva sutra bodhisattvas bodhisattvavow dharmatalk shakyamuni shakyamunibuddha

05/15/2026

Ven. Kunga will give an introduction to the Tibetan teaching on the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind towards Dharma as the answer to the question "Why Practice?"

Sunday Service

9:00 a.m. Dharma Hall setup (all are welcome to join)

9:30 a.m. Morning chant

10:00 a.m. Service begins

11-11:30 a.m. Social time

Join us in person or if you can’t make it, Sunday services are live-streamed and can be viewed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fhh9twPzX4DtNoUzPuCGg?reload=9

Or on Zoom

Zoom information:

Meeting ID: 915 9282 1333

Passcode: 089654

Follow along using the Rituals and Practices Handbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLpgMDxGyU9tFb_nQcvmzXIOEf98c3Ub/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

We care about your comfort. Michigan weather can change quickly especially as the seasons change. The temperature in the temple may also fluctuate. So for your comfort, wear layers of clothes that you can add or shed. Please wear socks or borrow from our clean socks basket.

In the event of severe weather:

Please check for closing announcements at: https://www.woodtv.com/weather/closings-and-delays/ or on WOOD TV8.
We will also try to send out e-alerts and post on social media platforms.

sangha buddhism buddhist sundayservice sunday mindfulness practice bodhisattva sutra bodhisattvas bodhisattvavow dharmatalk shakyamuni shakyamunibuddha

05/06/2026

13th century zen monk Eihei Dogen said, "Enlightenment is intimacy with all things." What does it mean to be truly intimate with our lives? How is this a path of practice? Join us this Sunday for a Dharma talk by special guest Rev Lianghua Su Jill Eggers.

Sunday Service
9:00 a.m. Dharma Hall setup (all are welcome to join)
9:30 a.m. Morning chant
10:00 a.m. Service begins
11-11:30 a.m. Social time

Join us in person or if you can’t make it, Sunday services are live-streamed and can be viewed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fhh9twPzX4DtNoUzPuCGg?reload=9

Or on Zoom
Zoom information:
Meeting ID: 915 9282 1333
Passcode: 089654

Follow along using the Rituals and Practices Handbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLpgMDxGyU9tFb_nQcvmzXIOEf98c3Ub/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We care about your comfort. Michigan weather can change quickly especially as the seasons change. The temperature in the temple may also fluctuate. So for your comfort, wear layers of clothes that you can add or shed. Please wear socks or borrow from our clean socks basket.

In the event of severe weather:
Please check for closing announcements at: https://www.woodtv.com/weather/closings-and-delays/ or on WOOD TV8.
We will also try to send out e-alerts and post on social media platforms.

sangha buddhism buddhist sundayservice sunday mindfulness practice bodhisattva sutra bodhisattvas bodhisattvavow dharmatalk shakyamuni shakyamunibuddha

05/02/2026

🕯️ Tibetan Silent Retreat: Seven Limb Practice 🕯️

📍 Meets at the temple
📅 Saturday, May 9
⏰ 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
💲 $40
📝 Registration closes Friday, May 8

Join us for a day of silence, meditation, and inner renewal centered on the Seven Limb Practice with the preliminaries and ingredients, a powerful method for cultivating compassion, mindfulness, and wisdom.

✨ Includes:
• 3–4 guided meditation sits
• Six Preliminaries & Seven Ingredients practice
• Mantra recitation
• Potluck lunch (bring a dish to share)
• Closing Sojong fire puja to set intention

Open to both new and experienced practitioners. Come recharge, reconnect, and deepen your practice in community. Registration is live on our website.

05/01/2026

Rev. Shinkyū discusses how zazen meditation isn’t about improving anything at all. His talk explores sitting without judgement, allowing thoughts, reactions, and karma to arise and pass away, even when the experience is quite uncomfortable.

Sunday Service
9:00 a.m. Dharma Hall setup (all are welcome to join)
9:30 a.m. Morning chant
10:00 a.m. Service begins
11-11:30 a.m. Social time

Join us in person or if you can’t make it, Sunday services are live-streamed and can be viewed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fhh9twPzX4DtNoUzPuCGg?reload=9

Or on Zoom
Zoom information:
Meeting ID: 915 9282 1333
Passcode: 089654

Follow along using the Rituals and Practices Handbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLpgMDxGyU9tFb_nQcvmzXIOEf98c3Ub/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We care about your comfort. Michigan weather can change quickly especially as the seasons change. The temperature in the temple may also fluctuate. So for your comfort, wear layers of clothes that you can add or shed. Please wear socks or borrow from our clean socks basket.

In the event of severe weather:
Please check for closing announcements at: https://www.woodtv.com/weather/closings-and-delays/ or on WOOD TV8.
We will also try to send out e-alerts and post on social media platforms.

sangha buddhism buddhist sundayservice sunday mindfulness practice bodhisattva sutra bodhisattvas bodhisattvavow dharmatalk shakyamuni shakyamunibuddha

04/27/2026

🕯️ Tibetan Silent Retreat: Seven Limb Practice 🕯️

📍 Meets at the temple
📅 Saturday, May 9
⏰ 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
💲 $40
📝 Registration closes Friday, May 8

Join us for a day of silence, meditation, and inner renewal centered on the Seven Limb Practice, a powerful method for cultivating compassion, mindfulness, and wisdom.

✨ Includes:
• 3–4 guided meditation sits
• Six Preliminaries & Seven Ingredients practice
• Mantra recitation
• Potluck lunch (bring a dish to share)
• Closing Sojong fire puja to set intention

Open to both new and experienced practitioners. Come recharge, reconnect, and deepen your practice in community. Registration is live on our website.

04/23/2026

Traditionally, in India, China, Japan and the other Buddhist countries of Asia, one was expected to leave one’s home and family behind in order to begin the necessary training and practice of an “apprentice”. Thus, the ancient ceremony of ordination in Buddhism became known as Shukke Tokudo, “Leaving Home to Take the Way”. Now, in modern Japan and in the West, one of the great changes in the nature of Buddhist clergy has been that most of us function more as “ministers” than “monks”, with family and children, often with outside jobs supporting us, while ministering to a community or sangha. This, in keeping with changes in cultures and society, has done much to bring Buddhism out from behind monastery walls. Thus, the term “leaving home” has come to have a wider meaning, of “leaving behind” greed, anger, ignorance, the harmful emotions and attachments that fuel so much of this world, in order to find the “True Home” we all share. In such way, we find that Home that can never be left, take to the Way that cannot be taken.

Join us this Sunday as Mūshō Jeremy Blake is ordained as a teacher at the Grand Rapids Buddhist Temple, and "Unsui", or "novice priest", in the Soto Zen School.

Sunday Service
9:00 a.m. Dharma Hall setup (all are welcome to join)
9:30 a.m. Morning chant
10:00 a.m. Service begins
11-11:30 a.m. Social time

Join us in person or if you can’t make it, Sunday services are live-streamed and can be viewed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fhh9twPzX4DtNoUzPuCGg?reload=9

Or on Zoom
Zoom information:
Meeting ID: 915 9282 1333
Passcode: 089654

Follow along using the Rituals and Practices Handbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLpgMDxGyU9tFb_nQcvmzXIOEf98c3Ub/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We care about your comfort. Michigan weather can change quickly especially as the seasons change. The temperature in the temple may also fluctuate. So for your comfort, wear layers of clothes that you can add or shed. Please wear socks or borrow from our clean socks basket.

04/16/2026

In our everyday life, we often long for peace and happiness. Through the daily practice of meditation, we may find those aspirations awakening quietly within us. Join us this Sunday for a Dharma talk by special guest Unyo Priscilla Brown.

Sunday Service
9:00 a.m. Dharma Hall setup (all are welcome to join)
9:30 a.m. Morning chant
10:00 a.m. Service begins
11-11:30 a.m. Social time

Join us in person or if you can’t make it, Sunday services are live-streamed and can be viewed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fhh9twPzX4DtNoUzPuCGg?reload=9

Or on Zoom
Zoom information:
Meeting ID: 915 9282 1333
Passcode: 089654

Follow along using the Rituals and Practices Handbook
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLpgMDxGyU9tFb_nQcvmzXIOEf98c3Ub/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We care about your comfort. Michigan weather can change quickly especially as the seasons change. The temperature in the temple may also fluctuate. So for your comfort, wear layers of clothes that you can add or shed. Please wear socks or borrow from our clean socks basket.

In the event of severe weather:
Please check for closing announcements at: https://www.woodtv.com/weather/closings-and-delays/ or on WOOD TV8.
We will also try to send out e-alerts and post on social media platforms.

sangha buddhism buddhist sundayservice sunday mindfulness practice bodhisattva sutra bodhisattvas bodhisattvavow dharmatalk shakyamuni shakyamunibuddha

Address

451 Division Avenue S
Grand Rapids, MI
49503

Opening Hours

Monday	6:30pm - 8pm
Thursday	9:30am - 11am
Friday	10am - 11:30am
Sunday	9am - 11:30am

Website

http://zengr.org/

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