Beginner’s Mind Sesshin

A 3-day meditation retreat
(Zoom & In-person)

Thursday, February 19 (eve.) – Sunday, February 22

Led by Sensei George Mukei Horner

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Develop Your Home Practice

Read a basic description of how to do Zen meditation (zazen) and start meditating at home.

Intro to Zen Meditation

New to Buddhist practice? We have introductory Zen meditation classes (online and in-person). Find out more.

Introductory Video

In this 14-minute video, Dharma Holder Jitsujo goes through the basics of Zen Meditation. Start watching.

More Activities

Our Ethical Documents

Read The Sangha Sutra, which describes our approach to ethical practice at ZCLA. It includes the Statement of Right Conduct, our Grievance Procedure, a short ethical history of ZCLA, and more. A must-read for anyone new to ZCLA.

Video Gallery

Here is a small but growing set of videos showing some services and events at ZCLA. View them now.

3 Tenets Mala Class

Learn how to use the 3 Tenets Mala Practice to explore aspects of your life. Watch an hour-long class video and peruse the class hand-outs. Visit the class page here.

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Opening to Oneness

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Stop trying to become “better” by suppressing or hiding parts of yourself, and learn what it means to be fully human with this accessible guide to the core ethical teachings of Zen Buddhism.

In Opening to Oneness, Zen teacher Nancy Baker offers a detailed path of practice for Zen students planning to take the precepts and for anyone, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, interested in deepening their personal study of ethical living. She reveals that there are three levels of each precept: a literal level (don’t kill, not even a bug), a relative level that takes moral ambiguity into account (what if it’s a malaria-spreading mosquito?), and an ultimate level—the paradoxical level of nonduality, in which the precepts are naturally expressed from a state of oneness.

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