Soji Zen Center

06/16/2025

Soji's Summer Sesshin # # Meditation

Tuesday June 17th at 7:00 p.m. - meditation will be offered online only in the virtual zendo on Zoom - no Tuesday night in person sitting at Soji. Zoom link can be found on the website

05/29/2025

Shuso Hossen Ceremony # Jakudo-Shuso # # AngoSensei #

Soji's 2025 Spring Ango period opened on Sunday, March 2, 2025 and will conclude on Sunday, June 1, 2025 with the Shuso Hossen Ceremony.

05/22/2025

Shuso Hossen Ceremony # # Sensei Ango Gruber # meditation #

Soji's 2025 Spring Ango period opened on Sunday, March 2, 2025 and will conclude on Sunday, June 1, 2025 with the Shuso Hossen Ceremony.

05/12/2025

# zazenkai # meditation # Buddhist Temple # Sensei Ango Gruber #

Soji's Zazenkai (monthly one-day retreat) is a great way to experience a short, intensive meditation retreat. The day consists of zazen (meditation) and dokusan (interview). Dokusan will be provided to in-person attendees at Soji with Ango Sensei. Please bring your lunch.

05/12/2025

# meditation # Fusatsu # Sensei Ango Gruber #

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04/26/2025

# Jakudo workshop # Buddhism # meditation #

Wherever you are, your practice is there with you. Join me as we discover how we practice with nature. Each of us has our own unique experience with nature. Joko Beck tells us that the effort of practice "gives us the space to experience whatever is." We will engage with what that means to us in eac...

04/10/2025

# Buddhist Temple # meditation #

While seated meditation is the core of Zen practice, ritual has always held a deeply important and multifaceted role. Almost every aspect of our practice has a ritual component, ranging from a single bow when entering the zendo to the detailed and carefully planned ceremonies like Jukai.

04/03/2025

# meditation # Buddhism # one-day retreat #

Soji's Zazenkai (monthly one-day retreat) is a great way to experience a short, intensive meditation retreat. The day consists of zazen (meditation) and dokusan (interview). Dokusan will be provided to in-person attendees at Soji with Ango Sensei. Please bring your lunch.

03/30/2025

# zen rituals # meditation # Buddhism #

While seated meditation is the core of Zen practice, ritual has always held a deeply important and multifaceted role. Almost every aspect of our practice has a ritual component, ranging from a single bow when entering the zendo to the detailed and carefully planned ceremonies like Jukai.

03/07/2025

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03/06/2025

meditation # # AngoSensei # zazenkai #

Soji's Zazenkai (monthly one-day retreat) is a great way to experience a short, intensive meditation retreat. The day consists of zazen (meditation) and dokusan (interview). Dokusan will be provided to in-person attendees at Soji with Ango Sensei. Please bring your lunch.

03/04/2025

# Fusatsu Ceremony # Buddhism # meditation #

"Fusatsu" is an ancient Buddhist chanting and bowing ceremony of atonement, purification and renewal of vows. "Fusatsu" means, "to continue good practice," or, "to stop unwholesome action (karma)."  Fusatsu can provide us with the opportunity to acknowledge our karmic entanglements and obscurations...