Please join our growing group of people of all ages in the Red Bank NJ area who are interested in developing inner peace and contentment through meditation. Classes are held once a week on a variety of topics such as anger, deepening relationships, developing contentment, and developing a meditation practice. Although the classes are based on the teachings of Buddhism, you don’t have to be Buddhist to benefit from the teachings. This is a group for people interested in life transformation, pers …

Transform and purify the mind and body through Buddhist methods. We are a group of Buddhist practitioners who study in the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions of Buddhism.Through the study of Buddhist philosophy, meditation and practices, we learn how to generate the Dharma nectar in our minds and apply Buddhist study to our lives.“Accumulate virtuous causes and eradicate non-virtuous causes in our mind; this is the study of Buddhism.”With a pure mind you can transform yourself to become a person …

Our Sangha has chosen a new name: Monmouth Zen Circle - Compassion Ocean Sangha, reflecting that we are no longer sitting in Elberon.  We also chose the dharma name of one of our late founders (Compassion Ocean). We are a group that meets weekly for meditation in the Soto Zen tradition of Shunryu Suzuki. We usually meet on Saturday mornings in Shrewsbury NJ for one hour of sitting meditation (zazen) and a short period of walking meditation (kinhin). Once a month, we have a dharma talk and a long …