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2024 BZC Summer Read

Join us for Brooklyn Zen Center’s 2024 Summer Read: “The Little Book of Zen Healing” by Dr. Paula Arai. The book launches a rich season of Dr. Arai bringing her wisdom and scholarship to BZC, and a practice period focused on healing and the feminine in Buddhism.

May at Ancestral Heart Temple

News from Ancestral Heart Temple!

2024 BZC Sit-a-thon

The BZC Sit-a-thon is back! The Sit-a-thon will take place on Saturday, June 22, at both Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn and the Millerton Zendo. Become a sitter (or sponsor a sitter) and join this community-wide effort!

Residential Practice Intensive: registrations are open!

Join us for BZC’s first-ever Residential Practice Intensive (January 2025, from 4 through 26). The intensive will be a turning point for our sangha and an auspicious way to begin BZC’s 20th Anniversary year.

April at Ancestral Heart Temple

A look into the life of the residents at Ancestral Heart Temple during the month of April. Our “mountain temple”, located near the town of Millerton, two hours north of New York City, is the first training temple in Suzuki Roshi’s U.S. lineage in the Northeast.

“Are You Really Present All the Time?”

Read this article by Reverend Kaishin Victory Matsui, Soto Zen priest and Director of Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Temple, discussing a modern koan about waking up in this lifetime.

Save the date: BZC Sit-a-Thon is Back!

The BZC Sit-a-thon will resume this year on June 22 at both Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn and the Millerton Zendo.

BZC is Hiring!

We are happy to announce that BZC is hiring a Marketing and Communications Coordinator, a … BZC is Hiring!

Honoring Pain: new BZC Podcast episode available

The latest dharma talk by BZC teacher Sarah Dōjin Emerson is now available.