Outside the temple: Sangha and society
Realizing the self without relationship to others (non-reliance) which includes everything (interconnectedness).

Environment
Cultivating a wholesome relationship with the earth

• ​Facility construction, renovation, and energy use
• Stewardship of temple grounds
• Travel to and from temple activities
• General resource use and waste

Ethics
Understanding that we have some responsibility to and for other beings, and that what we do affects others

• ​​​Morality as interconnectedness, not judgement
• The study of cause and effect 
• The nature of vow and repentance
• The study of the precepts; jukai-e and ryaku fusatsu
• Study of sila: Right speech, Right livelihood, Right action

Human Relationships
​Cultivating social and interpersonal relations between human beings that recognize both individuality and interdependence

• Practicing in community
• ​​​​Study of The Structure of the Self
• ​The Zen Practice of Being Old
• Wholesome relationships: what they are and how to cultivate them
• The nature of grief and loss ​

Buddhist material culture
Taking a broad perspective that includes practicing with not only physical objects and architecture but intangibles like sound, smell, events, language and media.

• Poetry of Dogen and Ryokan
• Creating home altars and other practice spaces
• Art and the dharma
• Baika (hymns and handbells)