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:

 

Logistical Info for Next Service Day

Date: Saturday 8/22, from 10am-12pm  (optional lunch to follow)
Location:  Albina Co-op Garden (N Russell St &, N Flint Ave, Portland, OR 97227)
Registration: RSVP by emailing sanghaserviceday AT gmail DOT com with your name, email, phone number, and confirm you are 18yrs+.

 

Summary

Come join us to learn about organic gardening, composting, pollinator habitats, and pruning, while giving back to the local community!

Volunteers will be doing a variety of activities, which may include weeding, spreading compost/woodchips, composting, digging, planting, watering, transplanting, harvesting and pruning, and to help maintain the organic garden infrastructure.

Volunteers should plan to bring (or wear) outdoor/gardening gear per the weather, a water bottle and gloves. Tools will be provided on site.

Albina Cooperative Garden is the largest urban farm in the inner Portland area.  Their mission is to grow food to share with co-op members, community members, and especially those in need.

After the event, you are warmly invited to join us on Mississippi Ave for a shared lunch!!

 

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