Welcome to the Maria Kannon Zen Center!
Registration for May Sesshin is now open!
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Registration for May Sesshin is now open! 〰️
Sitting Schedule
Zendo : 1450 Old Gate Lane, White Rock UMC
Second Floor, Rooms 200-201
Zoom ID: 2143881450
Hybrid: Zendo and Zoom
MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
SATURDAY
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
(Zendo)
(Zendo)
(Hybrid)
(Hybrid)
Day of Zen Schedule
April 12, Saturday
May 10, Saturday
Time: 6:30 AM - 12:00 PM
May 24- 29, Saturday to Thursday
Starts at 1 pm on Saturday and ends at 1 pm on Thursday.
Venue: Dallas Zendo
Sesshin Schedule for 2025
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:15 pm
Venue: Dallas Zendo, Rooms 200 -201
Online: Zoom 214388145
This is an ongoing study. Please register for the next offering which will start in October.
April, 5, 12
Precepts Study
The Maria Kannon Zen Center is a non-profit corporation which offers a setting for people of various backgrounds and faith traditions or of no faith tradition to practice Zen. The members are bound together by a common commitment to cultivate wisdom and compassion. The center’s primary commitment is to offer people an opportunity to practice Zen meditation as well as promote an ecumenical haven of diverse meditation forms for practitioners. For members who wish to practice beyond meditation, the Center offers an opportunity to offer their services to the larger community and provide activities with groups of common interests.
Introduction to Meditation
Orientation is offered in three sessions:
1) Fundamentals of Zen Practice
2) Fruits of Zen Practice
3) Introduction to Private Interview (Dokusan) with the teacher
Here is how you can support our Sangha!
Donate when you attend our day of zen.
1.
Purchase a monthly or annual membership to receive benefits.
2.
Give a general donation to support us.
3.
We Are All Refugees: Seeking Our True Home
Watch/listen to Ruben Habito's dharma talk for Tricycle Magazine on grappling with the insecurity, conflict, and violence in today's global society, and how our zen practice can open a way for us to engage the world in compassion.
The Practice of Zen
As we look around us, we see how there is so much woundedness on different levels, individual, social and ecological. Some of us may already be engaged in tasks of social change or in some form of ecological action, yet in all this we also come to realize that there is a deeper wound we each need to address. Deep within, we realize that what we seek is our own peace within ourselves, as well as with one another.
Zen practice offers very concrete guidelines toward a realization of our connectedness with mountains and rivers, with every sentient being, with all that there is. This realization of our connectedness with one another is the key to healing ourselves, and to healing our Earth.
– Ruben Habito