"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
The 2018 Annual Appeal is under way!
Our goal is to raise $13,000. Please support NZC: A refuge for open-hearted inquiry and audacious awakening. Click here for the campaign or simply donate via PayPal with the button below.
Our goal is to raise $13,000. Please support NZC: A refuge for open-hearted inquiry and audacious awakening. Click here for the campaign or simply donate via PayPal with the button below.
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 Click here for additional information. |
Study
Information regarding classes, retreats & sesshin for 2019 has been updated. Click the Offerings tab above for details. 
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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
Five Tuesdays ~ February 5 through March 5 ~ 6:25-8:30pm In this class, we will explore the reconciliation of light and dark, form and emptiness, self and other. Click here for more. |
Engagement
NEXT Sunday Practice: January 20, 2019
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 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
Alone Inside Out, December 9, 2018. In this talk, Dosho begins with recent research that found that many Americans would rather be electrocuted than spend time in peaceful contemplation, alone with their own minds. This talk explores "aloneness" with Record of Empty Hall, Case 94: Yàoshān’s Mudball. About this case, Xūtáng said, “It’s hard to live alone in the ancient house."
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
Alone Inside Out, December 9, 2018. In this talk, Dosho begins with recent research that found that many Americans would rather be electrocuted than spend time in peaceful contemplation, alone with their own minds. This talk explores "aloneness" with Record of Empty Hall, Case 94: Yàoshān’s Mudball. About this case, Xūtáng said, “It’s hard to live alone in the ancient house."
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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