Santa Cruz Zen Center

Santa Cruz
United States

Santa Cruz Zen Center follows the path of Soto Zen in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the founder of San Francisco Zen Center the first Zen Monastery in the West. This Zen Buddhist Place is located in Santa Cruz and offers regular mediation circles where Zazen is practiced.

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Santa Cruz Zen Center follows the path of Soto Zen in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the founder of San Francisco Zen Center the first Zen Monastery in the West. This Zen Buddhist Place is located in Santa Cruz and offers regular mediation circles where Zazen is practiced.

Soto Zen

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Sōtō Zen Buddhism is a Japanese school of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition that emphasizes seated meditation and non-conceptual thinking. Popularized by Dogen in the 11th Century, the Sōtō Zen tradition has since grown to attract people practitioners from across the world. Today, Sōtō Zen represents one of the largest unified Buddhist sect, with over 14,000 temples worldwide. In the US, Sōtō meditation centers can be found in most major metropolitan areas.

Sōtō is distinguished from the other major Zen schools, Rinzai and Obaku, by its focus on just-sitting, or shikan taza. Essentially, this approach emphasizes zazen as the key act of samadhi (enlightenment), as opposed to the other schools, which offer supplementary methods like koans as potential routes to the dissipation of the ego.

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Soto Zen
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the Place

and its People

Soto Zen

the Path

Sōtō Zen Buddhism is a Japanese school of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition that emphasizes seated meditation and non-conceptual thinking. Popularized by Dogen in the 11th Century, the Sōtō Zen tradition has since grown to attract people practitioners from across the world. Today, Sōtō Zen represents one of the largest unified Buddhist sect, with over 14,000 temples worldwide. In the US, Sōtō meditation centers can be found in most major metropolitan areas.

Sōtō is distinguished from the other major Zen schools, Rinzai and Obaku, by its focus on just-sitting, or shikan taza. Essentially, this approach emphasizes zazen as the key act of samadhi (enlightenment), as opposed to the other schools, which offer supplementary methods like koans as potential routes to the dissipation of the ego.

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sczc.orgcontact@sczc.org+1 831-457-0206
113 School Street
Santa Cruz
CA 95060
United States
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Santa Cruz Zen Center follows the path of Soto Zen in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the founder of San Francisco Zen Center the first Zen Monastery in the West. This Zen Buddhist Place is located in Santa Cruz and offers regular mediation circles where Zazen is practiced.

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