Ocean Gate Zen Center

Weekly Zazen-Meditation, Everyone is Welcome. Tuesday & Thursday Meditation 6:45 a.m. - 7:25 a.m. followed by Chanting Service We will be offering a Wednesday morning online zoom zazen and service beginning at 6:40 a.m.... Wednesday morning link: https://zoom.us/j/908478200 Friday Meditation 8:10 meditation, 8:50-9 walking meditation, 9 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. followed by Well-being and Refuges Service Saturday Morning Schedule: We will be offering Saturday Morning's schedule as online zoom zazen and lecture (same time). Saturday morning link: https://zoom.us/j/499628110 9:00 a.m. Meditation 9:30 a.m. Dharma Talk, followed by Questions & Answers

Rev. Jundo Cohen is going to be giving a talk and reading from his new book (via Zoom) at Ocean Gate on Wednesday January 27th at 6:30 p.m. His recently published book is titled, "The Zen Master's Dance: A guide to understanding Dogen and who you are in the universe." (Wisdom Publications, 2020, at Amazon for $15.71). Jundo is the teacher at Treeleaf Zendo in Japan and has been studying Dogen for decades. His transmission teacher was Gudo Nishijima one of the most important translators of the Shobogenzo in English. Please join us! You can find our Zoom link at our website ("Zoom Zendo" link at the bottom of the home page): https://www.oceangatezen.org/

Shinshu Roberts offers her thoughts on how to read Dogen Zenji's texts from the Shobogenzo. This lecture was given Saturday January 16th 2021 at Ocean Gate Zen Center. https://youtu.be/daeAz5j4JZo

Although we can't do class in person, the Ocean Gate community is still live and well. Here is a screenshot from our Ocean Gate morning zazen group with Soto Zen masks on 12/23. Feel free to join us next time! Links and schedules to our classes are on our website: https://www.oceangatezen.org

Check out this great video of Eido’s Kando Roshi on the Olympia Zen CenterYouTube channel. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plB4mwwpduc&t=1706s

Taken on Winter Solstice at 5 p.m. here is a beautiful sunset photo of Twin Lakes Beach State Park. You can see the lighthouse by the Santa Cruz harbor in the background.

One our YouTube channel, Rev. Shinshu gives a Dharma Talk on the passage of 2020. She also explains how 2020 was a master class in practicing sanboin: impermanence, no-self and nirvana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6V0J905jI