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Spirituality
Ango Week 4: Returning to Our Senses
A weekly message from teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin Pokorny in ...
Ango Week 5: Continuing Returning to Our Senses, and Be...
A weekly message from teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin Pokorny in ...
BZC Residential Summer Retreat audio dharma talks avail...
Kosen Gregrory Snyder, Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin, and Kidō Ian Case co-lead the...
Ango Week 6: Rest as Resistance
A weekly message from teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin Pokorny in ...
Zen Priest Ordination
Earlier this month, the BZC sangha came together to celebrate the Zen priest ord...
January Practice Period Canceled
Some recent health concerns facing BZC’s dharma teachers have compelled us to ca...
Ango Week 7: Nourishment
Image (detail): Mayumi Oda, “Morning Breath/ My Breath” A weekly message from te...
Ango Week 8: The support of ritual and ceremony
A weekly message from teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin Pokorny in ...
New audio dharma talks available!
New audio dharma talks are now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast! Healin...
Ango Week 9: The serious matter of Joy
Image: Yoko’ Ohashi’s calligraphy: raku- joy, bliss, music A weekly message fro...
New BZC Audio Dharma Podcast Episode: Conversation with...
This episode is a conversation with Sally Chang, Chief Instructor of Evergreen T...
Ango Week 10: Joy continued
Image: Dancing Buddha print by Vivienne Eastwood A weekly message from teachers ...
2022 at BZC: A Year in Pictures
Approaching the end of a very challenging and unusual year, we look back at the ...
Equity and The Great Ocean
Image by Jess X. Snow Dear Sangha, We are entering the final days of our ... Eq...
Ango Week 11: L.O.V.E.
Image: Buddha Field by Mike Newhall A weekly message from dharma teachers Sarah ...
New audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder
A new audio dharma talk offered by Kosen Gregory Snyder during last Saturday mor...
New audio dharma talks by Kosen Greg Snyder
The audio dharma talks offered by Kosen Gregory Snyder during a three-day retrea...
Ango Week 12: Bodhisattva Imagination
Image: The BZC sangha throwing petals at the end of the 2022 Rohatsu sesshin at ...
Culminating 2022 Ango Weekly Message: Freedom and Liber...
Image: Tsherin Sherpa’s painting from the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (ple...
New audio dharma talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny
A new audio dharma talk offered by Charlie Korin Pokorny during the recent Rohat...
Inclining Our Hearts: A Message from Kidō Ian Case
Dear Shanga, This time of year in the Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) calendar—the int...
Actualizing the Mandala of Support
Dear Sangha, We are writing to ask you to contribute to Brooklyn Zen Center‘s en...
Four Days Left: Campaign Update
We’ve raised $56,897 toward our End of Year campaign. This collective effort has...
BZC EoY Appeal: One More Day to Give and Two-Thirds There!
We have one day to go and we’ve raised $65,803 toward our End of Year campaign—j...
Faith and Liberation: A Community Conversation on Priso...
Image: Second Shot, a short film by Andrew Michael Ellis A three-part in-person ...
EOY Campaign Update
Due to a couple of generous last-minute donations, we’re happy to announce that ...
January at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple: A Month in Photo...
Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Ze...
February at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple: A Month in Phot...
Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Ze...
Giving and Receiving
A message from Alexandra Gekas and Tom Weinreich, BZC Membership Committee co-ch...
Stewarding a Tradition: Follow-up and Resources
A message from BZC’s Administrative Director Ryan Lee Wong, following the March ...
March at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple: A Month in Photogr...
Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Ze...
Letters from the Garden: Season Three
Dear Sangha, Just before sitting down to write this, I moved all of the tomato ....
April at AHZT: A Month in Photographs
Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Ze...
Best Effort: Audio Dharma Talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2023...
How do we reconcile our behavior with the eight-fold path? Are we always deluded...
Liberative Confession and Repentance: Audio Dharma Talk...
What I don’t look at, what I will not face, runs my life. From a bodhisattva per...
Letters from the Garden: Planting Trees
Dear Sangha, When we acquired the land that is now Ancestral Heart Temple, part ...
Into the Scars of the Burning: Audio Dharma Talk by Kos...
The dharma talk offered by Kosen Gregory Snyder at Boundless Mind Temple in Broo...
Sewing the Rakusu
On Sunday, June 11th, sixteen people in our community will be receiving Soto Ze...
May at Ancestral Heart Temple: A Month in Photographs
Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Te...
Join us for Garden Harvest Month at Ancestral Heart!
Our Garden Planting Month was a success! Thank you to the many sangha members wh...
Jukai Ceremony at BZC
On June 11, at the end of a three-day sesshin at Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC), ... ...
New Undoing Whiteness Course Starting this Fall
Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) is excited to announce the offering of a new iteration...
In Pictures: New Millerton Zendo Opening!
This past Saturday, July 22, Brooklyn Zen Center dharma teachers, Zen priests, s...
Fall 2023 BZC Ango: The Liberating Practice of Non-Duality
In our fall 2023 practice period, we will explore the liberating practice of non...
BZC Summer Reading Program
The new BZC Summer Reading Program concludes on Wednesday, September 13, with Be...
March to End Fossil Fuels: BZC Sangha Sign-Making
The BZC sangha making signs ahead of the March To End Fossil Fuels—a Bodhisattva...
Fall Ango Week 1: Practicing with Genjo Koan
This is the first official weekly email from BZC Dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emm...
Fall Ango Week 2: As all things are Buddha-dharma…
This is the second weekly email from BZC Dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emmerson an...
Sangha Care Coordinator: a New Practice Role at BZC
It's with great joy that we announce a new practice role at Brooklyn Zen Center:...
Fall Ango Week 3: When one side is illuminated, the oth...
This is the third weekly email from BZC Dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and ...
Fall Ango Week 4: Keep Your Eyes Closely on the Boat…
A weekly message from BZC dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin ...
Fall Ango Week 5: Do not suppose that the ash is future...
A weekly message from BZC dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin ...
BZC Sangha at the March to End Fossil Fuels
In September, the BZC sangha — along with other faith-based communities, grassro...
New episodes on the BZC Podcast!
New episodes on the BZC Podcast include audio dharma talks by Charlie Korin Poko...
Fall Ango Week 6: Moon in a dewdrop
A weekly message from BZC dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin ...
Fall Ango Week 7: Whole Worlds Are Here
A weekly message from BZC dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin ...
Fall Ango Week 8: No end to the water, no end to the air
A weekly message from BZC dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin ...
The Nonduality of Teachers and Lineage: BZC’s End of Ye...
A message from Administrative Director Ryan Lee Wong, including a video testimon...
New audio dharma talk available on the BZC Podcast
The dharma talk offered by guiding teacher Sarah Dōjin Emerson on November 11 is...
Fall Ango Week 10: Here is the place; here the way unfo...
A weekly message from BZC dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin ...
2023 at BZC: A Year in Pictures
As we approach the end of the year, we look back at the past 12 months and refle...
Fall Ango Week 12: From the gold of the earth to the cr...
The final weekly message from BZC dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charli...
Childcare at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn
Childcare will be provided at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn every first Satu...
Video: a conversation with author Chenxing Han
Author Chenxing Han ("Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhi...
New episodes available on the BZC Podcast
The dharma talks offered during the 2023 Rohatsu Sesshin are now available on th...
BZC Sangha Care Coordinators
The BZC Sangha Care Coordinators organize community support for those in need. ...
BZC 2023 Annual Report
The BZC 2023 Annual Report is now available! The post BZC 2023 Annual Report app...
BZC March Membership Drive
March is Membership Drive Month at Brooklyn Zen Center! Learn more about members...
BZC March Membership Drive: Testimonial by Allegra Lovejoy
March is Membership Drive Month at Brooklyn Zen Center! Learn from BZC member Al...
BZC March Membership Drive: Testimonial by Ian Pereira ...
March is Membership Drive Month at Brooklyn Zen Center! Learn from BZC member Ia...
Life at Ancestral Heart Temple
Ancestral Heart Temple residents cultivate connection with the land, the body, a...
Strawberries and Joy: new BZC Podcast episode available
The latest dharma talk by BZC lay practice leader Yoko Ohashi is now available. ...
Honoring Pain: new BZC Podcast episode available
The latest dharma talk by BZC teacher Sarah Dōjin Emerson is now available. The ...
Save the date: BZC Sit-a-Thon is Back!
The BZC Sit-a-thon will resume this year on June 22 at both Boundless Mind Templ...
“Are You Really Present All the Time?”
Read this article by Reverend Kaishin Victory Matsui, Soto Zen priest and Direct...
April at Ancestral Heart Temple
A look into the life of the residents at Ancestral Heart Temple during the month...
Residential Practice Intensive: registrations are open!
Join us for BZC’s first-ever Residential Practice Intensive (January 2025, from ...
2024 BZC Sit-a-thon
The BZC Sit-a-thon is back! The Sit-a-thon will take place on Saturday, June 22,...
May at Ancestral Heart Temple
News from Ancestral Heart Temple! The post May at Ancestral Heart Temple appeare...
2024 BZC Summer Read
Join us for Brooklyn Zen Center’s 2024 Summer Read: "The Little Book of Zen Heal...
New podcast episode: dharma talk by Ejo Patrick McMullen
Ejo Patrick McMullen, current Abbot of Buddha Eye Zen Community Temple in Oregon...
Tenshin Reb Anderson’s 2024 sesshin dharma talks now av...
The dharma talks offered by Tenshin Reb Anderson during the June 2024 sesshin at...
Fall/Winter 2024: Save the Dates
Many Fall/Winter 2024 BZC offerings are now open for registration! The post Fall...
Grandmotherly Mind and more, up on our BZC Podcast!
Listen to a reading and discussion by BZC friends and acclaimed poets: Granny Cl...
A Simple Way to Support What You Love
The holidays can be hectic, but giving back doesn’t have to be. Ordering some BZ...
‘Two Years of Priesthood’: New Essay by Victory Kaishin...
We’re excited to share a new essay by Victory Kaishin Matsui, Ancestral Heart Di...
Holidays at Ancestral Heart
Enjoy a recap of the holidays at Ancestral Heart and its residents written by Mi...
A Ritual of Reflection
We are excited to welcome Vipassana Vijayarangan as the new Boundless Mind Templ...
Registration Deadline Approaching: The Four Foundations...
Our six-week online class starts February 4, 2025. The post Registration Deadli...
Rains Retreat teachings: Being a “Soulmate of the Buddha”
Follow along with newly translated talks by Thich Nhat Hanh from 2012/13 which e...
Five ways to face loneliness, mindfully
We offer a selection of teachings from Thich Nhat Hanh and other Plum Village Dh...
Seven self-care practices for the festive period
A selection of Plum Village practices to keep in your back pocket if you will be...
Christmas Holiday Week 2024
During this year’s Christmas Holiday Week (December 20–27), we gathered as a com...
New Year Prayer to Our Ancestors
Dear Beloved Ancestors, both Spiritual and Genetic, We present ourselves before...
New Year Celebration 2025
The New Year’s Week at Plum Village was a beautiful opportunity to come together...
Rains Retreat Closing Ceremony 2024-2025
The 90-day Rains Retreat 2024-2025 has concluded, marking a period of deep study...
Each Breath Gives Life – Parallel Verses for the Lunar ...
Plum Village offers these parallel verses to mark Tết, the Lunar New Year.