Online Zen Practice
Online Zen
We offer the following online Zen practice opportunities. All offerings are free of charge.
Weekly Online Group Zazen
We offer free online group sitting options every Thursday evening at 4:30 PM PST and 7:30 PM PST. The sittings lasts 25 minutes.
https://simplicityzen.com/online-zen-meditation/
Online Zen Meditation Retreats
We offer monthly free online Zen meditation retreats. Most are one day in length but twice a year there are two day retreats.
https://simplicityzen.com/online-zen-retreats/
Online Practice Period
Practice periods are an opportunity to intensify and deepen our practice. They usually last 6 weeks and offer daily sittings, retreats and special events and dharma talks. There is no cost to participate in online practice periods.
https://simplicityzen.com/online-zen-practice-period/
Private Zen Instruction
We offer free private Zen instruction over Zoom upon request.
https://simplicityzen.com/private-instruction/
Online Zen Precepts
Sometimes called “jukai”, the bodhisattva precept initiation ceremony is a chance to take refuge in Buddha (awakened mind), dharma (Zen teachings) and sangha (Zen community) and to vow to try and follow the Bodhisattva precepts. Unlike some groups, we are happy to offer this ceremony to new Zen students once they have competed a short instructional program that introduces them to how to work with the precepts
https://simplicityzen.com/online-jukai-zen-precepts/
Online Koan Training
We offer online Zen koan training based on the koan curriculum developed by Harada Roshi in the early and mid 20th Century in Japan. We offer a pre-koan curriculum to help people prepare their minds for this type of training.