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.
Brooklyn Zen Center
1w ago
The BZC Sit-a-thon is back! The Sit-a-thon will take place on Saturday, June 22, at both Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn and the Millerton Zendo. Become a sitter (or sponsor a sitter) and join this community-wide effort ..read more
Brooklyn Zen Center
2w ago
Join us for BZC’s first-ever Residential Practice Intensive (January 2025, from 4 through 26). The intensive will be a turning point for our sangha and an auspicious way to begin BZC’s 20th Anniversary year ..read more
Brooklyn Zen Center
3w ago
A look into the life of the residents at Ancestral Heart Temple during the month of April. Our “mountain temple”, located near the town of Millerton, two hours north of New York City, is the first training temple in Suzuki Roshi’s U.S. lineage in the Northeast ..read more
Brooklyn Zen Center
3w ago
Read this article by Reverend Kaishin Victory Matsui, Soto Zen priest and Director of Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Temple, discussing a modern koan about waking up in this lifetime ..read more
Brooklyn Zen Center
3w ago
The BZC Sit-a-thon will resume this year on June 22 at both Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn and the Millerton Zendo ..read more
Brooklyn Zen Center
1M ago
We are happy to announce that BZC is hiring a Marketing and Communications Coordinator, a ... BZC is Hiring ..read more
Brooklyn Zen Center
1M ago
The latest dharma talk by BZC teacher Sarah Dōjin Emerson is now available ..read more
Brooklyn Zen Center
1M ago
The latest dharma talk by BZC lay practice leader Yoko Ohashi is now available ..read more
Brooklyn Zen Center
2M ago
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