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From the 2024 Monterey Bay Zen Center Fundraising Card
Image by Scott Bryan, Seeing the Invisible.

 

Monterey Bay
Zen Center

Monterey Bay Zen Center is an active Zen community which meditates, practices and gathers around the Monterey Bay. Founded by Sobun Katherine Thanas Roshi in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, we now have a council of four teachers who rotate as Guiding Teacher through the seasons and a community that is as deeply dedicated to the warm care of each other.

 
 
 
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Four ways to give to Monterey Bay Zen Center

Select from any option that works best for you and your intention:

 

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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.