Update:

We are welcoming in Spring with our fourth annual Art Show and Fundraiser on the Temple grounds at 5333 Elmwood St. Please join us for a celebration with food, art and various kinds of cake, between 11 am and 3pm on Saturday, May 11th.

We have raised $2,125, and thank you greatly for your generosity. We're over halfway to reaching the first milestone in our fundraiser. We need $2,000 more to complete the purchase of the lots where we planted the Sycamore Circle last year. This is also the future home of the Labyrinth.

Even in the cold, dark months, we think of the seeds we will plant and ready ourselves for the transformations to come. Seeds also come in the form of ideas that take shape and shift the physical world.

Here at Field Temple, we are setting out the begging bowl, asking for help to create a bit more refuge.

This year we laid flagstone paths which meander through five lots, offering a walking meditation route through previously inaccessible spaces. Detroit Future City graciously offered us a bench, which is installed and ready for time spent sitting under trees. Wayne Metro helped enormously with a Neighborhood Beautification Grant.

Now we are looking to bring nine adjacent lots under our care, so we can expand the meditation paths, plant more trees and create a walking labyrinth. To be part of this imagining, please donate. We need help with physical work, digging and hauling. We need support with energetic work, the meditations and rituals that strengthen the thread of hope needed to overcome the energetic residue of all that has happened on this land. We need $4,000 more to buy the lots and are dreaming of another $6,000 to use for ongoing maintenance and project costs.

In a world torn by war, the ravages of poverty and global warming, having spots of refuge is important. We do our best work when we come from a place of inner harmony. While outer circumstances do not insure inner harmony, places of peace can support the call for inner and outer peace. Consider a bit more refuge.

Many Thanks.

Bhavana Sarah Addae

Community members speak about Field Temple:

"Field Temple is a special place for our family; where we go to celebrate, mourn, have adventures and quiet moments. During the height of the pandemic and school and business closures, the Field Temple was our destination for respite from being cooped up. Our children climbed the trees and balanced on the stump and stone pathways. Sarah and Field Temple also held my family lovingly and beautifully when we lost one of our children. We held his memorial ceremony at the Field Temple. This space brought our family much needed comfort and gave us a magical and perfect setting to celebrate his life. We still find comfort at Field Temple and enjoy seeing every development and added pathway."

-Melissa Cooper Sargent-

"Field Temple has offered me a place of solace when the chaos of life has felt heavy on my heart, and has offered me a place to restore myself many times. Joining the Temple's gatherings has enriched my sense of community and has shed light on the many ways communities can work together to create something beautiful and practical for our collective survival and the survival of the indigenous land we inhabit."

-Jozie Bullard-

"Several years ago, Sarah Addae, a Zen Buddhist Dharma teacher, had a vision to create a temple. The temple seemed like a daunting task that would require many years to manifest.

Then, in a moment of inspiration, Kinga Osz Kemp suggested that we start meditating outside and in that instant , Field Temple, which had yet to be named, became a reality.

A few months later we incorporated Field Temple as non-profit. We subsequently applied to Detroit Future City for a Forest Patcher grant and received $8K. With that money and the help of family and friends and neighbors, we began to clean up decades of debris on a lot we were able to purchase.

Since our first sit, five years ago, Sarah has led a Sunday morning meditation outside on Mother Earth year round. Everyone of the people who have joined us has felt the loving vibrations.

Over the years, we have given our time, energy and financial resources to co-create a healing space where all are welcome. We meditate, contemplate, pray, chant, volunteer, sing, dance, play music, recite poetry, garden and revel in the beauty and order of Mother Earth. We have grown the area of the temple and made the adjoining lots public spaces of beauty.

Field Temple has hosted a wedding, a celebration of Life, several art shows, music performances, poetry readings, solstice and equinox gatherings and an Artist in Residence program as well as meditation courses, weekly sittings and dharma talks. Many trees have been planted, walking meditation paths laid down, a pond created and a tea garden established.

As stewards of the land, nine adjoining lots are now available to us and we are reaching out to the community to help us with the additional finances needed to purchase the lots. We are also raising money to help with maintenance costs, mowing and tree work to be completed in the next two years.

They will be filled with Love & Light to benefit All-One. Give what you can to support the continued growth of Field Temple. We give thanks. Peace."

-Dante King-

Planting Seeds for the New Year

By Field Temple

Planting Seeds for the New Year

A bit more refuge