Join us for our in-person Saturday morning program at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, which will include a dharma talk by guest speaker, Dr. Paula Arai at 11:20 AM EST.

The dharma talk will also be live-streamed. For security reasons, we do not post zoom links publicly. Please ask to sign up to the BZC Mailing List here to receive the log in information.

You are welcome to come to all or just part of the program schedule:

09:00am — Doors open
09:25am — Han (wooden board calling people to meditation)
09:40am — Zazen (seated meditation)
10:10am — Kinhin (walking meditation)
10:20am — Zazen
10:50am — Service (ceremonial chanting, bowing and incense offering)
11:20am — Dharma talk with Dr. Paula Arai
12:20pm — Soji (temple cleaning practice)
12:40pm — Tea (informal tea time)

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We rely on donations for all we do, and invite you to support our practice and teachers:

• You can donate to BZC here or via Paypal to paypal@brooklynzen.org.
• You can donate to a specific dharma teacher or practice leader here.

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COVID Protocol: We ask that all participants be fully vaccinated and boosted. Masks are optional. Please see the BZC Covid Protocol for more information.

Our Location: Boundless Mind Temple is located in the Parish House of Christ Church Cobble Hill, next to 326 Clinton Street. Enter the driveway on Clinton, go past the scaffolding, and through the double doors. There are two flights of stairs leading to the center, located on the second floor. The closest subway stop is the F/G at Bergen Street.

Paula Arai was raised in Detroit by a Japanese mother and did Zen training in Japan. She obtained her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University in 1993 and is now the Eshinni & Kakushinni Professor of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals, Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra.