What does it mean to keep our balance in these crazy times? Genko Kathy Blackman speaks at the Zen Center, August 5, 2018.

Eko Jeff Kelley of Seattle Soto Zen speaks about his work in prisons, July 29, 2018.

Our practice helps us move through our lives with a deeper liberty, living and dying more freely.

Eko Jeff Kelley of Seattle Soto Zen speaks at our annual summer day sit, July 14, 2018.

Sally Carlson was ordained into The Episcopal Church in 2005 and has served as deacon at The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, Vashon. She is currently retired from full time ministry. She is a certified Spiritual Director with an itinerant street clientele as well as women ranging in age from 30’s – 70’s. She

Koshin and Christian Meass Svendsen, President of the Board of Rinzai Zen Center in Oslo, discuss Buddhism in Norway and Zen practice at the Rinzai Zen Center in Oslo.

Sissel Johannessen speaks in our “My Zen Life” series, in which sangha members talk about their Zen journeys. June 17, 2018 at the Zen Center.

What are the roots of this practice? Why do we chant and what are we chanting? And how do we make this practice meaningful for us? Koshin Cain speaks at the Zen Center May 20, 2018.

The first line of Richard Dawkins’ book, Unweaving the Rainbow, is “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.” Without the miracle of birth we cannot have death. With every birth of a new person, idea, or plan comes the certainty of endings and of pain.

Koshin Cain gives an evening talk at the 2018 sesshin on zazen (sitting meditation).