Brooklyn Zen Center
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Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) is an embodied training community in the Soto Zen tradition. We aspire to offer opportunities to realize personal and collective liberation through the cultivation of intimate, ethical, and just relationships with ourselves and all beings. Our vow to practice undoing harmful and oppressive conditioning compassionately transforms our world.
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Ancestral Heart Temple residents cultivate connection with the land, the body, and ancestry. As spring starts, their activity turns to caring for the land and growing of food ..read more
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Dear Sangha, When we acquired the land that is now Ancestral Heart Temple, part of ... Letters from the Garden: Planting Trees ..read more
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What I don’t look at, what I will not face, runs my life. From a bodhisattva perspective, denial is a disaster ..read more
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How do we reconcile our behavior with the eight-fold path? Are we always deluded ..read more
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Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Zen Temple ..read more
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Dear Sangha, Just before sitting down to write this, I moved all of the tomato ... Letters from the Garden: Season Three ..read more
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Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Zen Temple. All ... March at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple: A Month in Photographs ..read more
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A message from BZC’s Administrative Director Ryan Lee Wong, following the March 11 Sangha Meeting ... Stewarding a Tradition: Follow-up and Resources ..read more
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A message from Alexandra Gekas and Tom Weinreich, BZC Membership Committee co-chairs: Dear Sangha, Last ... Giving and Receiving ..read more