Mid year Kosesshin 2022
July 9 to July 13 (Saturday through to Tuesday) It's nearly here. Four days of zazen, and interviews. Please register through email....
SEPTEMBER NEWS
YOUTUBE Our Youtube Channel is getting up and away, you can find new content there about things Zen. Some talks given at the Zendo on the...
WHAT IS ZEN TRAINING TO ME?
by MARK UNRYU SEMAN march 2021 I’ve been training on and off for thirteen years now, since I was twenty-three years old. What brought me...
August 30 OBON - JIZOBON Matsuri
We hope you are doing well ~~ On Sunday August 30 our next monthly Zazenkai will take place from 7am to 1pm. Please write back with any...
Zen v's Mindfulness industry
Essay by Mujyo Roshi (Head monk of Jizoan Zen centre Kozanji). One day in a temple I trained in I had a particularly hard assistant head...
No it's not a retreat! Its Ko-sesshin
2021 Rohatsu Ko-sesshin Intensive December 18-21 Sesshin is a period of intensive Zazen and Sanzen interviews, living formally in the...
Beginning; taste the tea, feel your legs, listen to the incense
‘Wake, wake! Time waits for no one!’ Sakyamuni Tathagata Buddha At 15 I felt I was on the way to being something I didn’t want to be, and...
Long Zazenkai: SUNDAY MAY 2
You are invited to attend one of Jizoan's twice annual day of Long Zazenkai next Sunday May 2 from 7am until 7pm. The day is a serious...
Polishing
I'll quote Shibayama Roshi's translation of a famous koan here from the Record of Baso, found in his Teisho on the Koan 'Mind is Buddha'...
Marriage Equality
UPDATE Our LGBTI rights statement 'A Univeral Statement of Marriage Equality from the Zen School in Australia' is being distributed. Our...
