Only Love Zen Sangha

Grand Rapids, Michigan & Online

Next Public Service:

No services scheduled. We’re on hiatus for awhile.

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UPDATE: June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

Because the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon, and because there are so many restrictions placed on churches and Zen sanghas (cleaning, distancing, masking, etc.), we’ve decided to remain closed to the public. We will continue to sit privately. And we may even do what many have done – resort … [Read more…]

Posted in: Clear-MInd, Compassion, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Love, Zoom

COVID-19 Update

March 18, 2020 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

Given that nearly all of Michigan is on lock down (restaurants, bars, Buddhist temples, churches, sporting events, libraries, schools – you name it, it’s closed), and people are asked to keep six feet from one another, and not to gather in groups of more than 10… We will cease all public sittings until the first … [Read more…]

Posted in: 7 June 2020, COVID-19, Temporary Closing

Next Public Service; January 5th

December 20, 2019 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

The first public service of 2020 will be the first Sunday of the year, at 10am. Yay!

Posted in: 5 January 2020

Next Public Service: September 22nd

September 11, 2019 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

Our move to a new home took longer than we anticipated. We are still living out of boxes! Because of that, we took the summer off from sitting and resumed public sittings on Sunday, September 8th. Our next public sitting is Sunday, September 22nd at 10am, Eastern. Our schedule for the rest of the year … [Read more…]

Posted in: 22 September 2019, Come As You Are, Public Services 2019-2020

Next Public Service…

July 14, 2019 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

Our move to a new home has taken longer than we anticipated. We are still living out of boxes! Because of that, we will not have any public services in July or August. We will resume on September 8th. Our schedule for the rest of the year and is as follows: September 22October 6October 20November … [Read more…]

Posted in: 2019 Sitting Schedule, We've Moved

No Services In June. We’re Moving!

June 1, 2019 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

We will host no public services during the month of June as we pack up and move to a new location. Woo-hoo! We will be up and running again on Sunday, July 7th. Maybe.

Posted in: No Services In June

Next Public Service: May 19th

May 15, 2019 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

Please join us for a sitting on Sunday, May 19th at 10am, Eastern. You may join us in person, or online via Zoom. No preparation needed. Come as you are. NOTE: Rev. Chasayk will deliver the Dharma talk.

Posted in: 19 May 2019, Next Public Service, Rev. Chasayk

Next Public Service: May 5th

May 1, 2019 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

Please join us for a sitting on Sunday, May 5th, at 10am, Eastern. You may join us in person, or online via Zoom. No preparation needed. Come as you are. NOTE: Rev. Charama will deliver the Dharma talk.

Posted in: 5 May 2019, Next Public Service

No Service Easter Sunday

April 15, 2019 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

There will be no public service on Easter Sunday, April 21. See you Sunday, May 5th, at 10am!

Posted in: Easter Sunday

Next Public Service: April 7th

April 3, 2019 by Rev. Charama Leave a Comment

Please join us for a sitting on Sunday, April, 7th, at 10am, Eastern. You may join us in person, or online via Zoom. No preparation needed. Come as you are. NOTE: Rev. Chasayk will deliver the Dharma talk.

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Rev. Charama Bhavika, JDSPN

Rev. Charama is the Founder and Guiding Teacher of Only Love Zen Sangha.

An ordained Zen priest in the lineages of Korean and Japanese Zen, Ven. Charama has made love his life's direction.

So it's no surprise that "How may I help you?" is one of his favorite questions.

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Recent Posts

  • UPDATE: June 29, 2020
  • COVID-19 Update
  • Next Public Service; January 5th
  • Next Public Service: September 22nd
  • Next Public Service…

Stuff We Mention a Lot

  • 1 Corinthians 13
  • 11 February 2018
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  • 12 August 2018
  • 12 March 2017
  • 12 November 2017
  • 14 January 2018
  • 15 October 2017
  • 157 Riverside Avenue
  • 17 September 2017
  • 18 September 2016
  • 19 May 2019
  • 2 Of 4
  • 20 May 2018
  • 20 November 2016
  • 2019 Sitting Schedule
  • 22 April 2018
  • 22 May 2016
  • 22 September 2019
  • 25 February 2018
  • 25 June 2017
  • 25 March 2018
  • 26 August 2018
  • 26 February 2017
  • 26 March 2017
  • 28 January 2018
  • 29 July 2018
  • 29 October 2017
  • 3 June 2018
  • 31 December 2017
  • 4 June 2017
  • 5 January 2020
  • 5 May 2019
  • 5pm Sitting Time
  • 6 May 2018
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • 7 June 2020
  • 8 April 2018
  • 9 July 2017
  • 9 September 2018
  • 9am Eastern
  • Accident Of Birth
  • Anthropomorphizing
  • Antiphony
  • August Break
  • August Recess
  • Baby Birds
  • Baby Ducks
  • Bach
  • Back to 5pm Eastern
  • Barnabas
  • Barney Fife
  • Barren Cross
  • Beethoven
  • Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
  • Bhikkhu Gunaratana
  • Bifurcation
  • Bird With Broken Wing
  • Bloodgood
  • Bodhidharma
  • Bodhisattva
  • Bruce Dickinson
  • Bruckner
  • Buddha
  • Captain Picard
  • Carpe Diem
  • Cause And Effect
  • Change
  • Chanting
  • Christian Metal Bands
  • Christian Rock Bands
  • Clear-MInd
  • Come As You Are
  • Compassion
  • Compassion and Love
  • Concepts
  • Coronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Daylight Savings Time
  • December Break
  • Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
  • Dhammapada
  • Dhammapada Chapter 23
  • Dhammapada Chapter One
  • Dharma Talk
  • Dharma Talk – 22 May 2016
  • Dharma Talk – 30 October 2016
  • Dharma Talk – 9 September 2016
  • Dueling Banjos
  • Dukkha
  • Easter Sunday
  • Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
  • Emperor Wu
  • Epistemology
  • Equilibrium
  • Form-Emptiness
  • Four Noble Truths
  • Goodbye Rev Jachong
  • Guidelines
  • Handel
  • Happiness Doesn't Exist
  • Happy Holidays
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  • His Holiness
  • Hypocrisy
  • Illusion of Control
  • Iron Maiden
  • January Sabbatical
  • Jesus
  • Jesus People Movement
  • Karma
  • Karma Practice
  • Life Is Suffering
  • Life is Zen
  • Love
  • Majjhima Nikaya (MN 61)
  • Making Something
  • Mango Stone
  • Media Bias
  • Meeting With Zen Students
  • Merit
  • Merry Christmas
  • Messiah
  • Mozart
  • Napoleon Hill
  • New Meeting Time: 5pm Eastern
  • New Service Time
  • New Service Time: 10am
  • New Sitting Time
  • New Year's Eve
  • Next Meeting: Feburary 8th
  • Next Public Service
  • Next Sitting: January 15
  • Next Sitting: May 21
  • No Service Today
  • No Services In June
  • Non Attachment
  • Norman Vincent Peale
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  • Only Love Dispels Hate
  • Our Witness
  • PhD in Bodhisattva
  • Plato
  • Platonic Thinking
  • Politics
  • Postpone Until After Christmas
  • Public Services 2019-2020
  • Rahula
  • REO Speedwagon
  • Return to Only Love
  • Rev Songmin
  • Rev. Chasayk
  • Rev. Jachong
  • Rez Band
  • Samudaya
  • Seven Of Nine
  • Six Paramitas
  • Skype
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Star Trek: Voyager
  • Stephen R Covey
  • Stryper
  • Summer Hours
  • Summer-Autumn Sitting Schedule
  • Sutras
  • TAGS
  • Temporary Closing
  • The Andy Griffith Show
  • The Conceptual World
  • The EIghtfold Path
  • The First Noble Truth
  • The Flu
  • The Four Noble Truths
  • The Power of Positive Thinking
  • The Present Moment
  • The Second Noble Truth
  • The Single Flower Sermon
  • The Space Between
  • Think and Grow Rich
  • This Is For Internal Use
  • This Moment
  • Time Change For Sittings
  • Uncategorized
  • Vulnerability
  • Wake Up
  • We've Moved
  • What Is It? Don't Know
  • What's Love Got To Do With It?
  • With Our Thoughts We Make The World
  • Zen Is Boring
  • Zen Maser Seung Sahn
  • Zen Mirror
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