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The Boulder Zen Center is a lay Zen Buddhist practice center in the heart of Boulder, Colorado. Everyone is welcome to join our practice.

03/15/2025

Half-Day Sittings are an opportunity to dive into stillness and silence a bit more than the daily practice. They can also be a way to try out a meditation intensive. A Half-Day includes 4 periods of Zazen, walking meditation, and an optional oryoki lunch. There’s still time to sign up for tomorrow, 3/16! Online or in-person.

12/31/2024

New Year's Special! https://bit.ly/4gpQlxA

12/05/2024

Since its inception, the Boulder Zen Center has been largely self-supporting. Currently, 66% of its revenue comes from our adjacent hospitality business, the Boulder Guest House.

As you can imagine, it is expensive to maintain a practice location in the heart of Boulder. We are proud that our well-run hospitality business allows us to be largely self-supporting. Because of that, aside from memberships, we typically don’t ask the Sangha for general fund support.

https://www.boulderzen.org/donate-2024

We need to do so now because we were recently confronted with two major challenges: the sudden and necessary overhaul of our heating system, the consequent lost days of income, and an overall reduction in hotel bookings this fall.

If you benefit from the Boulder Zen Center’s programs, or enjoy that it exists in the world, please consider donating to our general fund at this time.

A Sangha member has just offered a challenge grant, which means all donations will be doubled going forward! The match applies to both one-time donations or new or upgraded monthly memberships.

Please click the link below to donate, and read more about these challenges we face this year. Thank you for your interest and support! 🙏

https://www.boulderzen.org/donate-2024

12/04/2024

New practice course available! We recently wrapped up the 6-week practice course, ‘Transforming Habits’, and we are excited to announce that the lecture series is now available as a self-paced course.

https://www.boulderzen.org/transforming-habits

This course explores how we can discontinue dysfunctional habits and instead form habits that create a wholesome, nourishing life.

Why are some unwholesome habits so difficult to change? Because they serve us! We need to dig deep and unlock the internal stoppages around which they have formed. Once they are not needed anymore, they dissolve almost effortlessly. Then we are free to express our true nature.

08/15/2023

Join us for a dharma talk, this Saturday at 9:45am, given by Ryokan Gary Hardin, followed by a Q&A discussion.

Dharma talks are free and open to the public, no registration is required. You may join us online or in person.

For the full schedule and the online Zoom link, visit our website at https://www.boulderzen.org/saturday-dharma-talks

08/06/2023

Happening now! Join us for a free ice cream and coffee social! Music, friends and fun! Help us celebrate our members!

08/04/2023

Join us this Sunday, August 6th, for ice cream and coffee! Bring your friends and family to this FREE event! We’ll be outside enjoying the beautiful Colorado weather on the front lawn.

This event is to thank the 135 members who support the Boulder Zen Center with monthly contributions. It’ll be a great chance to learn more about the Boulder Zen Center if you’re new to us and meet some friendly Sangha members. If you’ve been around awhile, come catch up with us, we’d love to see your smile and give you an afternoon pick-me-up!

08/01/2023

Join us for zazen (meditation) and a dharma talk, this Saturday, August 5th, given by Zenki Dillo Roshi, followed by a Q&A discussion.

Dharma talks are free and open to the public, no registration is required. You may join us online or in person.

For the full schedule and the online Zoom link, visit our
website at https://www.boulderzen.org/saturday-dharma-talks
We hope to see you there!

07/25/2023

Join us for zazen (meditation) and a
dharma talk, this Saturday, July 29th, given by Zenki
Dillo Roshi, followed by a Q&A discussion.
Dharma talks are free and open to the public, no
registration is required. You may join us online or in
person.

For the full schedule and the online Zoom link, visit our
website at
https://www.boulderzen.org/saturday-dharma-talks

We hope to see you there!

07/21/2023

The Koan of Life—Dharma Talk with Gyodo Sensei

This Saturday, July 22, please use the opportunity to join Gyodo Sensei's dharma talk. Paul Gyodo Agostinelli is a good friend and fellow Zen teacher here in Boulder, Colorado.

He will explore with us how koan practice can inform our work with, as he puts it, "the difficult, confusing, contradictory, and seemingly 'out of joint' places in our life."

Through his long Zen training, he is intimately familiar with both the formal koan curriculum of the Rinzai school and the Just Sitting practice of our own Soto approach. This makes him an ideal resource for our Sangha to learn more about the rich opportunities that koan practice presents.

Address

2151 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO
80302

Telephone

+13034423007

Website

http://boulderzen.org/

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