"Sending a gassho your way. Thank you for letting me sit with you twice for two mornings in August. It was very enjoyable and wonderfully different from how NZC was 4-5 years ago. When visiting my parents in Omaha, I'll return to visit you."
- a recent visitor who practices with a Zen community in California
Zazen
Zazen (Zen meditation) is about realizing the truth through intimacy with what is present in each moment.
In addition to Sunday mornings, zazen is offered: ~ Monday through Thursday mornings: 5:55am-7:30am and ~ Wednesday evenings: 6:55pm-8:30pm Arrive at 6:40pm if you would like brief zazen instructions. The center is closed Fridays & Saturdays. Click here for additional information. |
StudyNew class:
~ Awakening Through Barriers ~ Tuesdays, October 16 - November 20 (6 sessions), 6:25-8:30pm We will explore the process of awakening - how it occurs and unfolds, as well as the barriers in ongoing awakening, using the classic Zen text, The Undying Lamp, as our guide. Click here for more information. 
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Engagement
~ Sunday, October 21~
8:25 to 11:30am: Morning Practice Drop in for a meditation period, or join us for the morning, which includes a caretaking period and social time. 8:25 Zazen 9:00 Kinhin 9:10 Dharma Talk: "Centered, Harmonious Functioning" 9:40 Kinhin 9:50 Zazen 10:20 Liturgy/Chanting For more information Click here.
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SoundCloud
Many talks by Tetsugan and Dosho can be found at the Nebraska Zen Center SoundCloud page.
Recent Talks
Clouds Gentle, Water Boundless: The Life and Death of National Teacher Daiō is Dōshō's first talk for the September Sesshin 2018. In the talk, he focuses on the importance of lineage. Daiō, an essential link in our lineage, was a contemporary of Dōgen, but much less well known. Here's a verse he wrote after returning from China: "Clouds gentle, water boundless/The universal gate appears, do not slight it/The pilgrim Sudhana did not yet know he had it/Walked in vain to a hundred cities through fog and cold."
The Truth of the Self Through the Generations of Our Lineage: Dōshō's second talk for the September Sesshin 2018. In the talk, Dōshō offers the comments on the following sutra passage by a half-dozen Sōtō and Rinzai teachers: "When a single person returns to the source by awakening to the truth of the self, the great void in all ten directions disappears without a trace."
Sesshin: Gathering the Heart-Mind from Sunday Open Zen, August 12, 2018. Tetsugan begins this talk by describing the meaning and the process of sesshin - the word used in Zen for intensive meditation retreats - which plays a critical part in deepening one's practice. She goes on to highlight how this deepening manifests when practitioners shift from a focus on personal gain to serving others and life itself.
Many talks by Tetsugan and Dosho can be found at the Nebraska Zen Center SoundCloud page.
Recent Talks
Clouds Gentle, Water Boundless: The Life and Death of National Teacher Daiō is Dōshō's first talk for the September Sesshin 2018. In the talk, he focuses on the importance of lineage. Daiō, an essential link in our lineage, was a contemporary of Dōgen, but much less well known. Here's a verse he wrote after returning from China: "Clouds gentle, water boundless/The universal gate appears, do not slight it/The pilgrim Sudhana did not yet know he had it/Walked in vain to a hundred cities through fog and cold."
The Truth of the Self Through the Generations of Our Lineage: Dōshō's second talk for the September Sesshin 2018. In the talk, Dōshō offers the comments on the following sutra passage by a half-dozen Sōtō and Rinzai teachers: "When a single person returns to the source by awakening to the truth of the self, the great void in all ten directions disappears without a trace."
Sesshin: Gathering the Heart-Mind from Sunday Open Zen, August 12, 2018. Tetsugan begins this talk by describing the meaning and the process of sesshin - the word used in Zen for intensive meditation retreats - which plays a critical part in deepening one's practice. She goes on to highlight how this deepening manifests when practitioners shift from a focus on personal gain to serving others and life itself.
Zendo (meditation hall) Protocol
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