Welcome to the Chogye International Zen Center of New York!
The Zen Center is open for in-person practice.
Masks are now optional.
Practice is also fully accessible through Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/825835413?pwd=M3Vncm41VTRBeUNKeXlOODg5K0UwQT09
If you are prompted for a passcode, use 108.
In-person practice can have a powerful impact on practice and is strongly encouraged.
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What is Zen?
Zen employs several simple techniques of formal practice and meditation that help direct the student towards a central question: “What am I?” Although this question seems shapeless, Zen has developed, over many centuries, a practical and clearly defined means of approaching it. Meditation, communal activity, and student-teacher dialogue are common to all Zen traditions. If there is an element of faith in Zen, it is faith that steadfast concentration on the question of self-nature will bring clarity and energy to everyday life as well as a faith that, ultimately, Zen practice will not focus on an isolated “I” but on the whole real world.
The Chogye International Zen Center of New York was founded in 1975 by Zen Master Seung Sahn who is the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West. Addressed by his students as Dae Soen Sa Nim, he arrived in the United States in 1972 and established Zen Centers in the U.S. as well as Europe and Korea. These centers are linked together through the Kwan Um School of Zen.
The Zen Center offers daily practice which includes chanting, bowing, and sitting meditation, an extended sitting practice on Wednesday nights, monthly talks on Zen, and an Introduction to Zen class. The Center also offers frequent retreats, workshops and one-day sitting intensives.
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I hope from moment to moment you only go straight, don’t know, which is clear like space, try, try, try for ten thousand years, non-stop, get enlightenment, and save all beings from suffering.
—Zen Master Seung Sahn
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What is Zen? from Sana Lime.
