We invite you to visit the meditation hall and meet the community that practices here. The Center offers an environment and teachings for the cultivation of compassionate presence in each moment.

We practice mind-body awareness in sitting and walking meditation and in daily life. Our teaching is in the Soto Zen tradition brought to us from Japan by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.

Suzuki Roshi was a direct spiritual descendant of the great 13th century Zen Master Eihei Dogen. He came to America in 1958 and founded the San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

"Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality."
—Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi
    (1904-1971)