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Jan. 29, 2025, Join the CHINESE NEW YEAR CEREMONY at Ocean Sky! Chant the Universal Gateway of Guanyin Bodhisattva, Grand Meal Offering to Buddhas, Blessing Ceremony, Dharma Talk, Offering to Sangha, Dharma Drum, Bodhi Bell, Vegetarian Lunch, Ten Auspicious Stations with Blessing Pouches!

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On July 21, 2024 (Sunday) 9:00am, Ocean Sky will hold the Ullambana Filial Piety Ceremony. By reciting the Ullambana Sutra and making meal offerings to the Buddha and Sangha, we pray that through the compassion of the Three Jewels, our parents in past lives will be liberated and reborn in better realms, and our living parents will enjoy bountiful blessings and long lives. In this way, we truly repay their kindness and show our respect.

It is written in the Ullambana Sutra that Maudgalyayana, using his supernatural Dharma eye, saw his deceased mother suffering in the realm of hungry ghosts as retribution for her evil deeds. He offered her a bowl of food, but it turned into ashes right away. The Buddha taught him how to save his mother: “On the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, the culmination of the Sangha summer retreat, make an offering of the finest food to the Three Jewels. The limitless merits obtained from such offerings can liberate our parents in the past seven or more lives from suffering. This is how we can repay their love and kindness in raising us.”

Everyone is invited to take part in this auspicious ceremony to listen to and cultivate the Dharma. May all sentient beings be blessed with merits and wisdom as well as attain enlightenment together.

May 12, 2024 (Sunday) 9:00am, Ocean Sky Chan Monastery will hold a triple-event ceremony—the Buddha Bathing Ceremony to commemorate the birth of the Buddha; the commencement of the 3-month Summer Retreat Medicine Buddha Gratitude Ceremony; and the celebration of Mother’s Day by chanting The Sutra on the Profound Kindness of Parents. The Buddha Bathing activity will last for the whole week until May 19 (Sunday). Everyone is invited to come and bathe the Buddha statue.

Shakyamuni Buddha was born 3051 years ago on the 8th day of the 4th lunar month and his life story transpired in eight stages. He helped sentient beings return to their inherent pure nature by using Dharma water to cleanse their mind. A sutra states: “By bathing the Buddha’s statue as if he were still present in the world, one obtains blessings so limitless they cannot be counted.” By outwardly bathing the Buddha statue, we inwardly wash away our mind’s impurities; that is the true meaning of bathing the Buddha statue.

We welcome you and your loved ones to join this auspicious event and be replete with Dharma Joy. During the 3-month Summer Retreat, everyone is encouraged to recite the Medicine Buddha Sutra daily. Ocean Sky will also be open for the Medicine Buddha Sutra chanting every Monday and Wednesday, 7:00-8:00pm. With a mind of gratitude, we dedicate all the blessings and merits towards the peace and prosperity of the world and the enlightenment of all sentient beings.

March 17, 2024 (Sunday), 9:00 am, Ocean Sky Chan Monastery will hold the Qing Ming Filial Piety Ceremony. The Diamond Repentance Liturgy will be chanted, followed by the Grand Meal Offering to Buddhas, Blessing Ceremony, and Memorial Service.

We will dedicate all merits for our deceased ancestors, loved ones, and foes to be reborn in better realms; for the living to be filled with blessings and wisdom; and for all sentient beings in the ten Dharma realms to be liberated from suffering and attain enlightenment. We also pray for world peace and prosperity for all people. Everyone is invited to this ceremony and be replete with Dharma Joy.

Schedule :

On Feb. 10, 2024, 9:00am–1:00pm, Ocean Sky Chan Monastery will hold the Chinese New Year Blessing Ceremony to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

The Universal Gateway of Guanyin Bodhisattva will be chanted in the ceremony, followed by Grand Meal Offering to Buddhas, Blessing Ceremony, and the Striking of the Monastic Drum and the Bodhi Bell. We shall dedicate all merits towards the attainment of blessings and longevity. We shall also pray for world peace and prosperity for all nations.

From 1:00–5:00pm, the monastery shall open Ten Auspicious Gateways to the Mind—Find the Precious Jewel of One’s True Nature. This activity will go on for 1 week (2/10–2/17), allowing people to broadly cultivate merits. We pray that everyone finds their own precious jewel of inherent nature.

We welcome everyone to visit the monastery to pay respect to the Buddhas, make offerings to the Three Jewels, and cultivate both blessings and wisdom. At the same time, we also pray that all of our undertakings for the coming year be favorable and that all our loved ones be spared from harm.

The blessing activities are as follows: