From the 2024 Monterey Bay Zen Center Fundraising Card
Image by Scott Bryan, Seeing the Invisible.
Four ways to give to Monterey Bay Zen Center
Select from any option that works best for you and your intention:
from the Teaching Council and Board of Directors of Monterey Bay Zen Center
Monterey Bay Zen Center: Ethics, Diversity & Wellbeing
The Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts, integral to sangha harmony and safety, serve as a guide for our ethical conduct… (read more).
On Systemic Racism. In deep grief over the recent murders and the long history of racist violence, death and oppression during the last centuries, we acknowledge the deep-seated, systemic, and structural racism that poisons life in the United States of America.. (read more).
Wellbeing. Here are the most recent in-person practice protocols.
Schedule & Calendar
Upcoming…
Calendar
Locations
(now open for the following hybrid practice opportunities)
Carl Cherry Center
4th & Guadalupe NW
Carmel-by-the-Sea 93923
Tuesday Night
6:30-8:30 PM
Zazen, Kinhin, Service, Dharma Talk
Zazen Instruction
5:30-6:15 PM generally the first Tuesday of the month
Ordinary Recovery
Saturday, 9:00-10:00 AM
McGowan House at St. James
381 High Street at W Franklin
Monterey 93940
Monday and Thursday Morning Zazen
7:15-8:30 AM (in the zendo)
Brown Bag Zen
Informal meditation, tea & talk
Friday 12:15-1:15 PM
McGowan is our principal class venue
as scheduled and announced
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Deborah Good. “Midnight Meditation”, 2015. Color pencil on paper
©Deborah Good. Please see additional credits.