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Join us for one of our services at the Zendo: 18005 Vashon Highway SW, Vashon, WA 98070, (previously Island Funeral Services.) Feel free to come 10 minutes early for instruction, or just jump right in.

  • Sunday Service: 10:00am-12pm
    Early Sunday Sit: 8:30-9:30am
  • Monday – Friday: 6:30-7:30am
  • Monday Evening: 7:00-8:45pm
  • Wednesday Evening: 7:00-8:30pm
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Once a month grounds and people are transformed through Saturday Samu—from 10 am to 12 noon. Next Samu is Saturday, October 21. We can see part...

November 18, 2023

In this season of new life, we remember our beloved teacher, Genko Kathy Blackman, who passed away on December 9, 2022. She taught and inspired...

April 29, 2023

Tokudo Shiki Initiation, Two New Monks and a Ceremony On August 22nd we held our second ever ordination ceremony at Puget Sound Zen Center. As we...

October 9, 2022

Like many people studying Zen I regularly read Buddhist texts and I read to realize my experience. I identify as a woman and so in...

May 25, 2021

A world shatters. Hafiz enters with the poem How Do I Listen It reads, “How do I listen to others? As if everyone is my Master Speaking To me Their Cherished Last words.” How does the...

April 19, 2021

What is Buddha Nature? Is Buddha Nature a physical state? Do rocks and mountains have Buddha Nature? Can it reside outside of physical form in a...

October 27, 2020

One evening, a man came home from work and saw his neighbor looking for something under the streetlight in front of the neighbor’s house. "What are you...

July 24, 2020

Once upon a time, not long ago, my daughter and I lined up in crowds of people. We brushed each other shoulder to shoulder, sometimes...

June 14, 2020

Driving on the highway for the first time in a long time the other day, I was, for the first time in a long time,...

May 18, 2020

One of the best gifts I ever received was when I was in 4th grade.  It came from my Aunt Faye.  Aunt Faye was my...

April 17, 2020

In the last two days of my Dad's life, he was in a nursing home. He'd been brought there from the hospital, and we knew...

April 14, 2020

Many years ago, when the world was new, when all the animals and birds were MUCH bigger than they are now, and all had wings, celestial...

March 29, 2020

A confession: I've been ignoring my toes. There's really no sense to it. I don't ignore my head when it hurts. I don't ignore my stomach...

March 10, 2020

As I sat sipping my morning coffee, watching the forest wake up, it clicked - curiosity can loosen fear’s grip on one’s self A daddy long-leg spider...

November 8, 2019

Much older than the others I trudge off to school. And yet somehow as a student I become childlike. On the train, some lady zipped my backpack up. I stood there in...

November 8, 2019

Sipping dark roast black coffee Barred owl perches on felled cedar branch Beautiful being Not bothered by the rain Heart pumping Breast moving Same as me Think to get binoculars for closer...

October 15, 2019

The other day, I was at Suds, our local laundromat that has an insatiable appetite for quarters, in order to wash all our bathroom rugs...

September 9, 2019

Most days feel like a full out sprint just to keep up with the very basics of living and, if I’m honest, carving out some...

August 12, 2019

“Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” —Groucho Marx It was a beautiful summer...

July 21, 2019

There have been several times when I’ve limped up to Orcas Island in the hopes that It might fix things. What things these are I won’t...

July 8, 2019

suspended breathing in fawn nursing roses over the gate breathing out gravity is a hoax am I Let it go nothing separate nothing solid dreamily floating let it go the dream all is isnes let it go O   6/25/19 David Steel David...

July 1, 2019

A while ago I read an article about a homeless community in Los Angeles that puts on a production of Handel’s Messiah every year at...

June 24, 2019

In the last weeks of my Dad’s life, I would come home on the passenger ferry from a day of being with my Mom and...

June 24, 2019

I love etymology- the study of words and how they grow and change and move across time and through cultures. Through an understanding of their...

June 18, 2019

Woke up. This morning. Easily. Rested. So lithely alive. Sweet, after a month of wretched asthma. Breathing deeply, ahhhh. And I thought, if I were a...

March 28, 2019

A few years ago, when I was feeling really out of sorts, my psychologist recommended getting out in the garden and pulling up some weeds. When...

March 28, 2019

In spring of 2018, our Abbot traveled to Kyoto. Click here to read his travel blog. ...

December 18, 2018

Peace isn’t luck for six years stand facing a silent wall until the you of your face melts like a candle –Ikkyu   Don’t wait for the man standing...

August 1, 2017

This month in America we celebrate our freedom and independence. But according to Buddhism, we are not as free or as independent as we might...

July 12, 2017

I’m re-reading a book I first read as a monk in training – “The Gift of Fire” by Richard Mitchell.  It’s a book about thinking...

June 1, 2017

Earlier this month I led a retreat at North Carolina Zen Center, where I started my Zen practice 28 years ago.  Among the participants were...

May 1, 2017

Traditionally, when a monk or nun enters the Buddhist order, they vow to uphold the many precepts; that is, to behave properly. This has traditionally...

March 1, 2017

That’s what I was taught during my training at Mt. Baldy Zen Center. It didn’t matter what your past was. It didn’t matter what mistakes you’d made....

February 1, 2017

As a landscape laborer in high school, I couldn’t believe the amount my boss told me to prune back bushes. “They’ll grow back better this way,” he said....

January 1, 2017

Find us

18005 Vashon Highway SW
Vashon, WA 98070

Monday evenings we hold services at the Fauntleroy Church in West Seattle. United Church of Christ, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136-2556 4th floor chapel, room 402

Our Services

In-Person
SUN MORNING: 8:30-9:30am and 10:00 - 12 noon
MON-FRI MORNING: 6:30-7:30am
MON EVENING: West Seattle, Fauntleroy Church. 7 to 8:30pm
TH EVENING: 7:00-8:30pm

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