What is going on?
Important Announcement! Our meeting time on Sunday Evenings has been changed from 7:00 pm to 6:00 pm. We are fortunate to have a beautiful space for our little Zendo at Integrated Healing Arts located at 1718 Main Street #310 (Iberia Bank Bldg-enter in the back). It is only available to us on Sunday evenings on a regular basis. Please […]
In this series you will be introduced to Zen Buddhist teachings and zazen (meditation). Through your own experience, you will gain some understanding of how establishing a meditation practice can change your life. Each week, we will build on the week before, deepening our experience together. Upon his enlightenment, Buddha was seated in meditation. Zen […]
This Sunday November 29, 2015 at our normal Sunday Evening Zazen and once a month thereafter we will chant the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts. The sixteen bodhisattva precepts are a set of vows of ethical conduct taken many times in a Zen practitioner’s life. They derive originally from the vinaya, monastic vows taken on ordination during the […]
Spa Northwest in Bradenton sponsors Ordinary Zen workshops. Please visit their website for more information on future events. See: How to sit zazen
At our Ordinary zazen group this week we will be continuing with our discussion that was started a couple of weeks ago, I will be reading a few paragraphs about the Heart Sutra from “Living by Vow” by Shohaku Okumura and a discussion will follow during tea. Please join us this Sunday evening. More… […]