Weekly Schedule

Weekday Mornings (Mon-Fri)

  • 6:00am – Zazen (seated meditation)
  • 6:35am – Kinhin (walking meditation)
  • 6:45am – Zazen
  • 7:20am – Service
  • 7:35am – Soji (temple cleaning)
  • 7:50am – Morning program ends

Weekday Evenings (Mon-Thu)

(Many come to zazen after work; it's OK to enter the zendo whenever you can get here.)

  • 5:40pm – Zazen
  • 6:15pm – Service
  • 6:25pm – Evening program ends

(Note: You may depart before service begins.)

Saturday Beginner's Instruction

  • 8:00am - 9:00am – Beginners' Program (held in the zendo)

Saturday Morning Program

  • 9:15am – Zazen
  • 9:50am – Service & Soji (temple cleaning)
  • 10:30am – Dharma Talk
  • 11:15am – Announcements, tea and snacks

AZC also offers numerous other practice opportunities and classes.

Affiliated groups meeting at Austin Zen Center

  • Dharma Punx: Sundays, 11am–12:30pm
  • Meditation and Recovery: Sundays, 6–7:00pm
  • Natural Wisdom & Compassion Meditation, with Betty Holmes: Mondays, 6:45–7:45pm
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Reb Anderson, February 18, 2012, The Bodhisattvas Mundane and Super-Mundane Meditation Practice

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Just This

Schorre The editorial staff of Just This, the blog journal of the Austin Zen Center, announces its latest issue: Sitting: Part 2, In our latest issue Just This offers a second conversation on Sitting. Sometimes sitting is not as straightforward as we'd hoped. There might be problems, circumstances, a need for a different approach. And what is sitting anyway? Come see what we're saying to each other about it. Read and see the work of many fine contributors from AZC and beyond.

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