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Mission Statement
Mission: Bringing mindfulness training to where we live, work, and gather. Vision: Transforming lives with meditation practice one community at a time, cultivating mindful community with zen practice
About This Cause
Real World Practice While refuge can always be found elsewhere, it can be challenging to determine how these ancient methods fit into the modern world. And it's not just any world they need to fit but these ways need to fit the world we live in, each one of our worlds. The neuroscientists tell us mindfulness, just like excercise, can change the structure of your brain and rewire habitual thinking - they just don't quite know how it works. This 'discovery' makes your average monk smile because they've been at this for millenia - they just never tried to practice this outside the monastery walls. To figure out what 'zen' is in this so called 'real world' means that we are going to have to take a brand new science and an ancient art and craft a practice from the both of them. Fortunately, there are resources; proven meditation techniques, deep archives of texts, and the experience of a hundred and 117 generations of practitioners. And in building this new home for a new kind of practice, the best place to build it is on-site. And so we teach and practice in the midst of where you'll be practicing, amongst the people who you will be practicing with. Leaving the walls of the monastery behind, we bring the spirit and training to where we live, work, and gather. Classes Since there are teachings, classes can be an excellent way to gain an understanding of the study and practice of mindfulness, be it from a Buddhist perspective, Zen, or MBSR. All of these roads to the same place. Occasional classes are offered covering a variety of topics Workshops It helps to develop new skills. We offer workshops to open up and explore useful topics, learn practices, and to offer techniques to guide up back to the present moment and reveal choices that were previously unimagined. Retreats Neurobiology tells us that the most effective way to build mindfulness is to sit with a group of people and meditate. We hold one day retreats in the Silicon Valley. Zen at Work Teamwork has always been a core training in zen practice. Since the greatest part of our day is spent at work, and zen considers our everyday activity to be the place where zen is most alive, our work is our greatest opportunity for practice. We welcome the opportunity to sit down with any group of people and help them reimagine what their work, and their team, can be.