Urban Zen is a peer-led group in which we meditate, share, and explore the integration of Zen practice with modern daily life.  No previous experience with meditation or Zen necessary!  We meet Monday nights from 7:30 to 9:00 at Austin Zen Center.  There is also an optional meditation instruction and posture clinic at 7:00. Check out our website and Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/urbanzenpractice http://urban.austinzencenter.org/ 7:30 Introduction 7:40 Zazen (meditation) 7:55 Dharma Talk …

Our group is one of 620 meditation centers and groups established by Lama Ole Nydahl according to the wishes of H.H. the 16th Karmapa. The centers are now enjoying spiritual guidance of H.H. the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje, the current head of the 1000-years old Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Diamond Way Centers are non-monastic and western in style, yet rooted in the lineage of oral transmission going back to historical Buddha Shakyamuni 2500 years ago. Public meditation is held e …

RKSA, Rissho Kosei-kai Dharma Center, 6083 Babcock Rd. San Antonio, Texas is a Japan originated, lay Buddhist organization, meaning we are open to all people of all race and denomination. If fact, our group already consists in much diversity. We have a chanting service on Sundays at 10:00 AM for approximately one hour. Afterward, we have a one hour Circle of Compassion or "Hoza" at which time we discuss everyday issues with everyone and try to help in a compassionate way with emphasis on Buddhis …

What is the meaning of life? Far too often we are given the false choice of attempting to understand this question solely with our heart, through faith, or with our head, through empiricism and logic. But there is only one existence, and it is wonderful and strange and awe inspiring. To answer the greatest question, or perhaps more realistically, simply to wrangle out of it some modicum of sense, we must use all of our faculties. It is silly to think that to understand this existence we would so …