Brooklyn Zen Center

Brooklyn Zen Center BZC is a Zen meditation center, offering an online weekly meditation schedule, retreats, classes & more. Join us! Go to brooklynzen.org

We're so excited to welcome Chodo Robert Campbell and Koshin Paley Ellison β€” co-founders of the New York Zen Center for ...
05/30/2026

We're so excited to welcome Chodo Robert Campbell and Koshin Paley Ellison β€” co-founders of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, bringing together Zen practice, grief work, and contemporary medicine β€” to Brooklyn Zen Center this Saturday. Followed by our sangha art auction exhibition and a live concert in the courtyard... 🌿

Join us for our morning program β€” zazen, kinhin, service, and a dharma talk by & at 11:20 AM.
πŸ“… Saturday, June 6
⏰ 9:00 AM – 12:40 PM
πŸ“ 326 Clinton St, Brooklyn (F/G to Bergen St)
Childcare available 9–11:15 AM

Chodo is a bereavement specialist, grief counselor, and Zen teacher. Koshin is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, and Zen teacher. Together they've brought contemplative care to tens of thousands of practitioners, caregivers, and clinicians worldwide.

Our sangha art auction exhibition will be on view in the zendo throughout the day. Then after a lunch break, join us at 2 PM for ZenChella β€” our courtyard concert benefit for BZC, complete with a bake sale. All family friendly, all welcome. Hope to see you Saturday!

More info here: https://brooklynzen.org/events/event/saturday-morning-program-37/

Registration closes May 31 for our first panel in At the Threshold, a four-part series on Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy, prese...
05/28/2026

Registration closes May 31 for our first panel in At the Threshold, a four-part series on Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy, presented in collaboration with the Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Association (BeCa). Join Nikayla Jefferson, Shoshana Perry, Kirsten Rudestam, and Binuta Sudhakaran online June 2 to explore what it means to tend to the Earth as a spiritual act.

Register here: https://brooklynzen.org/events/event/what-is-buddhist-eco-chaplaincy-from-the-cushion-to-the-earth-in-times-of-ecological-transition/

β˜€οΈ Lay down your blanket. ZenChella is coming β€” a benefit concert, picnic, and bake sale to welcome summer, celebrate co...
05/24/2026

β˜€οΈ Lay down your blanket. ZenChella is coming β€” a benefit concert, picnic, and bake sale to welcome summer, celebrate community, and launch BZC's first-ever art auction.

🎡 Live musical offerings by sangha members
πŸ–Ό Art auction opening
πŸͺ Bake sale β€” homemade treats
πŸ“ BZC Courtyard, Christ Church Cobble Hill
πŸ—“ June 6 Β· 2pm
πŸ’š Suggested donation: $10–$30

All are welcome β€” kids included! Bring your coziest blanket and an open heart.

F/G to Bergen St Β· Enter via driveway on Clinton St

More info here: https://brooklynzen.org/events/event/zenchella-a-benefit-concert-for-bzc/

What does it mean to both receive and offer healing through ritual?Join us June 12–14 in Brooklyn for a weekend retreat ...
05/15/2026

What does it mean to both receive and offer healing through ritual?
Join us June 12–14 in Brooklyn for a weekend retreat with Dr. Paula Arai and Sarah Dōjin Emerson β€” exploring Zen healing traditions through meditation, chanting, sutra copying, sewing, artmaking, and a collective ritual we'll create together.

Open to all. Sliding scale $140–$330. No one turned away for financial reasons.
Register here: https://brooklynzen.org/events/event/creating-zen-healing-rituals-together/
Registration closes June 8. Financial Assistance applications due by June 1.



Image: Paula Arai, Mother of Compassion, watercolor, 2021
With gratitude to the The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism for their support of this program.

🌿 At the threshold of ecological transition, how do we offer spiritual care, to each other and to the Earth?Join us for ...
05/12/2026

🌿 At the threshold of ecological transition, how do we offer spiritual care, to each other and to the Earth?
Join us for At the Threshold, a four-part online series on Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy, created in collaboration with BECA (Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Association).
We open with Panel 1: What is Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy: Responding to Eco-crisis From the Cushion to the Earth - exploring what Eco-Chaplaincy means, how it is practiced through a Buddhist lens, and what it offers in times of ecological transition.
Panelists are engaged across different fields, offering a range of approaches to this emerging form of spiritual care:
✨ Nikayla Jefferson
✨ Kirsten Rudestam
✨ Shoshana Perry
✨ Binuta Sudhakaran
πŸ“… June 2, 2026 | 7:00–8:30 PM ET / 4:00–5:30 PM PT
πŸ’» Online via Zoom
🎟 Sliding scale $10–$75 | Financial assistance available
⏰ Financial assistance deadline: May 24
⏰ Registration closes May 31

Register here: https://brooklynzen.org/events/event/what-is-buddhist-eco-chaplaincy-from-the-cushion-to-the-earth-in-times-of-ecological-transition/

Questions? [email protected]



Photos: 1. Image by Margo Evardson on Unsplash, 2-5 headshots of: Nikayla Jefferson, Shoshana Perry, Kirsten Rudestam, Binuta Sudhakaran

⏰ LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!The registration deadline for our One-Day In-Person Sit is TOMORROW, May 13 at 11:59 PM ET. πŸͺ· ...
05/12/2026

⏰ LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!

The registration deadline for our One-Day In-Person Sit is TOMORROW, May 13 at 11:59 PM ET.

πŸͺ· One-Day Sit
πŸ“… Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
πŸ“ Boundless Mind Temple, 326 Clinton St, Brooklyn, NY

Led by BZC Dharma Teacher Sarah Dōjin Emerson, the day will include zazen (seated meditation), kinhin (walking meditation), soji, service, and a dharma talk at 11:20 AM.

Sliding scale: $45–$110
Bring your own lunch or enjoy the midday break to explore the neighborhood.

Register now - https://brooklynzen.org/events/event/one-day-in-person-sit/

We're so happy to welcome Kaira Jewel Lingo back to BZC! Join us for our Saturday Morning Program on May 9 at Boundless ...
05/04/2026

We're so happy to welcome Kaira Jewel Lingo back to BZC!

Join us for our Saturday Morning Program on May 9 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn β€” and stay for her dharma talk at 11:20 AM.

πŸ“ Boundless Mind Temple | 326 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY
πŸ—“οΈ Saturday, May 9, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:40 PM

The morning includes zazen, kinhin, service, and Kaira Jewel's dharma talk β€” you're welcome to attend all or part. Afterward, we'll gather for our Second Saturdays Community Lunch β€” bring your own lunch and stay a while.

About Kaira Jewel Lingo: A Dharma teacher in the Zen and Vipassana traditions, Kaira Jewel spent 15 years as an ordained nun in Thich Nhat Hanh's community and now teaches internationally at the intersection of spirituality and social justice. She is the author of We Were Made for These Times and co-author of Healing Our Way Home. Learn more at kairajewel.com.

More info including how to access the livestream (in case you're not in Brooklyn) here: https://brooklynzen.org/events/event/saturday-morning-program-36/

What makes a ceremony healing? What would it mean not just to receive healing, but to know how to create it β€” for yourse...
04/20/2026

What makes a ceremony healing? What would it mean not just to receive healing, but to know how to create it β€” for yourself, your loved ones, your community?

This May, we're gathering online to explore these questions together. Healing Rituals in Zen is a four-part series led by Dr. Paula Arai, Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams, Sarah Dōjin Emerson, and Charlie Korin Pokorny β€” moving through the history, principles, and living practice of healing ceremonies in Zen, and how we might bring them into our lives right now.

Four Thursdays: May 7, 14, 21 & 28 | 7–8:30pm ET | Online via Zoom
Sliding scale: $150–$240 | No one turned away for financial reasons
Financial assistance applications due April 30.
Registration closes May 5.
brooklynzen.org/events/event/healing-rituals-in-zen-thursdays-may-7-28/

Image: Community altar from a Jizo workshop at Green Gulch, courtesy of Sarah Dōjin Emerson. Pictured: Dr. Paula Arai, Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams, and BZC Dharma Teachers and Zen Priests Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin Pokorny.

🌸 Buddha's Birthday is just around the corner β€” come celebrate with us.On May 2nd, join us for a morning of zazen, kinhi...
04/20/2026

🌸 Buddha's Birthday is just around the corner β€” come celebrate with us.

On May 2nd, join us for a morning of zazen, kinhin, community crafting, a Baby Blessing Ceremony welcoming the newest members of our sangha, and a picnic together in our outside courtyard.

Families and little ones are especially welcome β€” childcare is provided 9:15–11 AM.

πŸ“ 326 Clinton Street, Brooklyn
πŸ•˜ 9:00 AM – 12:40 PM
🧺 Bring your own lunch & a blanket

All are welcome. ✨

More Info: https://brooklynzen.org/events/event/sangha-day-buddhas-birthday-celebration-3/

This one's hands-on! Join us Sunday, April 12th for a community screen printing fundraiser β€” bring something to print on...
04/07/2026

This one's hands-on! Join us Sunday, April 12th for a community screen printing fundraiser β€” bring something to print on (T's, hoodies, totes) and leave with your own BZC piece. We'll have our newest "I ❀️ Zen" design ready, plus tea, good company - bring snacks to share! Kids welcome.
Sliding scale starting at $25 (every dollar above the minimum supports BZC this year).
A big thank you to for opening their community art studio and to BZC sangha member for leading this offering.
Register here β†’ https://brooklynzen.org/?p=20368

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