November 8, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Shikantaza meaning “just sitting” is a core meditation practice in our tradition of Soto Zen Buddhism. It is sitting with a broad open awareness, not managing or filtering what arises, but rather allowing everything to be just as it is. Simply allowing whatever is there to be there, we find our true nature. We find ourselves as Buddha.
“Moment after moment you will find your own way when you just sit, when you are simply you yourself” – Shunryu Suzuki
So, our Shikantaza Saturday will be a peer-led practice with more periods of zazen–simply sitting with nothing extra, no dharma talk, no service. Sitting and walking in community–just being ourselves.
Please participate in whatever way feels right for you. You may arrive and leave at the beginning or end of any zazen period.
09:00 AM — Doors open
09:25 AM — Han (wooden board calling people to meditation)
09:40 AM — Zazen (seated meditation)
10:10 AM — Kinhin (walking meditation)
10:20 AM — Zazen
10:50 AM — Break and/or Long Kinhin (optionally outdoor kinhin or another movement practice)
11:20 AM — Zazen
11:50 AM — Kinhin
12:00 PM — Zazen
12:30 PM — Pali Refuges
12:35 PM — Work Circle and Soji
12:45 PM — Circle up for Announcements
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.
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We ask that all participants be fully vaccinated and boosted. Masks are optional. Please see the BZC Covid Protocol for more information.