WELCOME!
The Zen Center is open to members and trial members.
We have Zoom sittings for people who live too far away to attend sittings at the Center. We encourage people to attend via Zoom if they are ill or have recently been exposed to Covid. Please send us an email through the contact page if you would like more information.
Schedule
The Zen Center has a schedule of daily sittings, intensive meditation periods, courses, ceremonies, public events, and much more.
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Retreats
A wonderful way to combine quiet time and spiritual inspiration. Enjoy your own natural rhythms in an extraordinary setting.
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Workshops
A practical and authentic introduction to Zen Buddhism. Talks, question periods, demonstrations and meditation.
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Costa Rica
The Casa Zen was founded in 1974 by Roshi Philip Kapleau. Since 1988, Roshi Sunyana Graef has been the spiritual leader of Casa Zen.
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Toronto
The Toronto Zen Centre was founded in 1967 by Roshi Philip Kapleau. Roshi Taigen Henderson, Roshi Graef's Dharma Heir, is the teacher.
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Vermont
The Vermont Zen Center was founded in 1988 by Roshi Sunyana Graef, a Dharma Heir of Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of The Three Pillars of Zen.
SPECIAL CEREMONIES
UPCOMING AT THE CENTER
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Famine Relief Ceremony
Read moreA concrete way to express compassion for those who are suffering from hunger.
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Zen Center Gardening Course
Read moreLearn the origin of Zen gardens and some of the principles unique to Zen gardening practice.
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Summer Haiku Workshop
Read moreGain an understanding of the interaction between spiritual practice and poetry, as well as an appreciation of the deeper meaning of haiku and how it provides a way to engage in the tranquility of one’s environmen.
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Punjabi Meal Workshop
Read moreLearn how to prepare a delicious and authentic Punjabi vegetarian Indian meal in the Vermont Zen Center’s spacious kitchen with Manju Selinger instructing.
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Intro to Zen Workshop
Read moreRoshi Sunyana Graef conducts a half-day workshop on the practices and principles of Zen Buddhism.
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Teisho (Zen Talk)
Read moreRoshi Sunyana Graef will give a teisho prior to the start of the Training Program.
From our Ancestors
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The Way is essentially perfect and exists everywhere.
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Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
—Zen Ancestor Hakuin Ekakau -
The Great Way is not difficult for those who do not pick and choose.
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From the beginning all beings are Buddha.
—Zen Ancestor Hakuin Ekakau -
Ordinary Mind is the Way.
—Zen Ancestor Nansen Fugan