Sangha Service Days

 

Brief Overview

Every month on a Saturday, we’ll take a deep-dive as a local community, alternating months between a daylong meditation retreat and a “Sangha Service Day.”  Below is the upcoming Service Day schedule:

  • October 17, 2026 — Portland Dhamma Center in SE Portland
  • October 22, 2026 — Night Strike in SW Portland
  • December 12, 2026 — Pacific Hermitage in White Salmon, WA

 

Logistical Info for Next Service Day

Date: Saturday 10/17, from 10am-1pm (optional lunch to follow!)
Location: Portland Dhamma Center, at 1404 SE 25th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
Registration: RSVP by emailing sanghaserviceday AT gmail DOT com

 

Summary

Our weekly Monday night sangha is held at the Portland Dhamma Center, a build owner and managed by the Portland Friends of the Dhamma community, a local Thai Forest Buddhist sangha.  Other tenants of the building include another local vipassanā group as well as a Thich Nhat Hanh community.

We’ll gather for an inter-community day of service, where we’ll join with each other as well as other communities renting the build, and do various maintenance and housekeeping service on the building that serves us.

Optional lunch likely to follow.  Come for as little or as long of the day as you like.

 

Sangha Service Days Mission Statement

On the Sangha Service Days, we’ll do a community service project with a local non-profit organization / wholesome cause.  There are two main purposes to the Sangha Service Days:

  1. To put into action the Buddha’s teaching on “sīla,” aka virtuous action, and give back to the community with a spirit of generosity and loving-kindness.
  2. To have an opportunity to gather together more informally, develop natural connections, and touch into how when the Buddha was asked if Spiritual Friendship was half of the path, he replied that it was actually the entire path.

*As a note, in Buddhism, “sangha” is considered one of the three jewels or pillars of the entire tradition — it loosely translates as “spiritual community.”

 

Past Service Day Schedule