Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, a Japanese Zen Buddhist priest belonging to the Soto tradition, came to San Francisco in 1959 at the age of fifty-four. Already a respected Zen master in Japan, he was impressed by the seriousness and quality of "beginner's mind" among Americans he met who were interested in Zen. As more and more people of non-Japanese background joined him in meditation, San Francisco Zen Center came into being and Suzuki Roshi was its first abbot. He was undoubtedly one of the most influential Zen teachers of his time. Some of his edited talks have been collected in the books Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai.
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Norman Fischer will be giving a poetry reading at Brooklyn Zen Center on Saturday, May...
Brooklyn Zen Center will wrap up the spring teaching season with a five-day silent retreat with...
Soto Zen teacher, translator and author Shohaku Okumura will be visiting Brooklyn Zen Center to...
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All are welcome to attend our first annual Buddha's Birthday ceremony and celebration on...
In response to the desire of sangha parents to share their practice with their children,...
Brooklyn Zen Center will be having a Parinirvana ceremony on Wednesday evening, February 13th,...
Time: 8pm - 1am (doors open at 7:45)
The festivities will start at 8pm...
Please note that Brooklyn Zen Center will be operating on its winter interim schedule from...
We'll be having our fall workday on Saturday, November 17th, starting at 9am. For this workday,...
If Brooklyn Zen Center has been a source of encouragement for actualizing the deepest intentions...
Brooklyn Zen Center Ino ("head of the meditation hall") Ian Case will be offering a series of...
The Brooklyn Sit-a-thon is a borough-wide event where we join together on April 21st to spend a...
Head teacher Teah Strozer's talks and teaching this spring will focus on the topic of time. Teah...
Please check out our growing archive of online dharma talks. The talks from Reb Anderson's...
We'll be having our winter workday on Saturday, February 4th, from 9am to 5pm. The workday will...
Over the past year, many sangha members have asked about ways they can help out at...
Brooklyn Zen Center will be welcoming in 2012 with a special celebration this coming New Year's...
We are having a Membership Drive from November 12 through December 17th in...
