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Brooklyn Zen Center embodies compassionate community, just relationship, and liberatory practice in the Soto Zen tradition.
Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) is an embodied training community in the Soto Zen tradition. We aspire to offer opportunities to realize personal and collective liberation through the cultivation of intimate, ethical, and just relationship with ourselves and all beings. Our vow to practice undoing harmful and oppressive conditioning compassionately transforms our world.
Founded in 2005 as the first Zen Center in Shunryu Suzuki’s lineage in New York, BZC embraces both Soto Zen tradition as well as the complex realities of practice in a diverse urban environment.
BZC offers programming at Boundless Mind Temple (BMT), which shares space at Christ Church Cobble Hill in Brooklyn, as well as online.
