The Puget Sound Zen Center is a community dedicated to practicing Zen, teaching and living Buddhist principles, supporting a vibrant sangha, and serving our wider community.
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We offer services every day. Due to COVID, all services are online at https://zoom.us/j/5117064990. Use password 108108. Access our chant book here. First time? Find out what to expect here. All welcome.
Dokusan is a confidential meeting with a Zen teacher to discuss practice. It is open to all members of PSZC. Dokusan with Abbot Chris Cain is offered every Wednesday, from 9 to 10am, and 5-6 pm.
Sign up for a half hour slot here. Please sign up at least a day in advance.
The Zen Center holds two residential retreats throughout the year and two day-sits and monthly half-day sits. We also have Intro to Zen classes and a dharma study series in the Fall.
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Tim trained under Shodo Harada Roshi at the Tahoma Sogenji Zen Monastery on Whidbey Island...
The flower wouldn’t have meant much unless the Buddha had held it up. Silence isn’t ...
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A world shatters. Hafiz enters with the poem How Do I Listen It reads, “How do I listen ...
What is Buddha Nature? Is Buddha Nature a physical state? Do rocks and mountains have Budd...
