Events

Please join us in a retreat of mindful meditation within an environment of deep silence and community. A sitting schedule and silence are the bones of the retreat. The principles […]

Reserved for a private retreat.

Please contact Bill Tresch (bftresch@hotmail.com) if you're interested in attending this retreat.

All Beings are Manifesting Buddha Activity Co-lead by Associate Teacher, Rev. Onryu Kennedy and Rev. Musho Darin Podulke-Smith Buddha activity is embodied liberation, awakening to the living dignity and infinite […]

For information and registration, please visit Clouds' website or the retreat registration page.

According to tradition, when Dogen Zenji returned from China, he wrote the Fukanzazengi, "Universal Recommendations for Zazen". A few years thereafter he composed his first work in Japanese, Bendōwa, "Discourse […]

Priest Ordination Ceremony You are cordially invited to attend the Shukke Tokudo Ceremony of Junden Gage Myers on August 15, 2026 at 1p CT Commonly called the Priest Ordination Ceremony, […]

After some 23 years as Guiding Teacher, Rev. Dokai Georgesen will be officially retiring on September 8, 2026. In honor of his retirement, we planned to have a Mountain Seat […]

For more information, see https://www.oceanzen.org/hokyoji

For more information, visit https://www.mnzencenter.org/

Reserved for a private retreat.

Both zazen and Ikebana ask us to practice in the same essential spirit by abandoning our ideas about the world to meet the world where it is. The Zen practitioner […]