Cincinnati Zen Center

06/03/2026

06/02/2026

June 2026 WEEKLY PRACTICE SCHEDULE

Tue 2 - Yoga for Meditators, 6:30-8pm
Wed 3 - Dharma Talk, 5:30pm session
Thu 4 - Dharma Talk, 7pm session
Sat 6 - Dharma Talk, 8:30am (virtual)
Sun 7 - Dharma Talk, 8am session
Precepts Group, 9:45-11am
Sun 14 - Zen 201, 9:45-11am
Tue 16 - Life Study, 6:30-8pm
Sat 20 - On-site Retreat with Ji Bo P**p Sa (Todd Juengling)
Wed 24 - Dokusan, 5:30pm session
Thu 25 - Dokusan, 7pm session
Fri 26 - CZC Summer Solstice Potluck, 7pm
Sat 27 - Furnace Mountain virtual retreat, 6am-8pm
Dokusan, 8:30am (virtual)
Yoga for Meditators, 10:30am-12pm
Sun 28 - Dokusan, 8am session

IN-PERSON MEDITATION
Sundays at 8 am
Mondays at 7 pm
Wednesdays at 5:30 pm
Thursdays at 7 pm

6015 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45216. Free parking on Vine Street, around the corner on Walnut Street, or in the lot behind the building.

VIRTUAL MEDITATION
Saturdays at 8:30 am EST (see website for Zoom link)

All Dharma Talks and Dokusan (1:1 meeting) dates, as well as all regular practice sessions, are also listed on our CALENDAR PAGE.

05/27/2026

Put On Your Robe

Put on your robe, your gown, your dancing shoes, your vestments.
Pray.

Not to someone or something you have been taught about
But to what you know and feel and live in each moment.

Find what your heart already knows
Not what your thinking believes about it.

Find your tears, which flow without end
Where there was once only blame and disappointment.

Find your friends, your lovers,
Your breath, your parents
From ten thousand life times.

Find your True Self and never let go.

Hold the question without conclusion.

And breathe, breathe into the belly of this beast
whose heart is loss and whose intelligence is not knowing.

In a little over one hundred years everyone who is on earth today will be gone.

There is no enlightenment other than… This!

- Zen Master Dae Gak

05/20/2026

We hope you can join us for Intro to Zen on Saturday 5/30, 1 to 4 pm.

The workshop is led by CZC Dharma Teachers and provides an orientation to meditation and opportunity to practice the forms.

No previous experience with Zen or meditation is required. The format is interactive and casual with plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Suggested donation: $20. But please do not let living simply be a reason for not attending. We gladly accept donations in any amount for the event.

Details and registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-zen-workshop-tickets-1988931628040

04/30/2026

WEEKLY PRACTICE SCHEDULE, May 2026

Sat 2 - Dharma Talk, 8:30am (virtual)
Sun 3 - Dharma Talk, 8am session
Precepts Group, 9:45-11am
Tue 5 - Yoga for Meditators, 6:30-8pm
Wed 6 - Dharma Talk, 5:30pm session
Thu 7- Dharma Talk, 7pm session
Tue 12 - Life Study, 6:30-8pm
Sat 16 - Yoga for Meditators, 10:30am-12pm
Sun 17 - Sangha meeting, 9:45am
Wed 27 - Dokusan, 5:30pm session
Thu 28 - Dokusan, 7pm session
Sat 30 - Furnace Mountain virtual retreat, 6am-8pm
Dokusan, 8:30am (virtual)
Intro to Zen 1-4pm
Sun 31 - Dokusan, 8am session

IN-PERSON MEDITATION
Sundays at 8 am
Mondays at 7 pm
Wednesdays at 5:30 pm
Thursdays at 7 pm

6015 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45216. Free parking on Vine Street, around the corner on Walnut Street, or in the lot behind the building.

VIRTUAL MEDITATION
Saturdays at 8:30 am EST (see website for login info)

04/29/2026

On the last Wednesday of National Poetry Month, our featured poem is by our very own guiding teacher, Zen Master Dae Gak, which appears on pg. 123 of his book Upright with Poise and Grace: Coming Forward As You Are, Meditations for Entering Into the Moment (Gnomon Press, 2012)