Tuesday, May 4th @6:00-7:30pm
Individuals of ALL backgrounds are welcome to participate in this memorial ceremony, held online, as well as in-person at AZC
AZC’s Waking Up Group is launching a new study module starting March 14th. Everyone respectfully interested (BIPOC, White-identified &/or Unidentified) is welcome!
AZC Waking Up – Winter/Spring 2021 Module 4
Wednesday, February 3rd @6:45pm CST
All are welcome to join us for this 49-day memorial service for honorable Willis Bullard Jr. - in support of his family and for all beings.
Memorial Service for the Honorable Willis “Bill” Clare Bullard Jr.
Thursday, January 28th @6:45pm
All are welcome to respectfully and compassionately join us in our traditional Soto Zen memorial service - in support of Dave Pavkovic, his family, and for all beings.
Memorial Services for our Departed Friends & Family: Julia Pavkovic
In Memoriam: Hakuryū Sōjun Mel Weitsman (1920-2021), Berkeley Zen Center Abbot
In Memorium: Hakuryu Sojun, Mel Weitsman
The AZC Practice Leadership joins with both SFZC's & SZBA's Statements on the 1/6/21 Attack on US Congress.
Statements on the January 6th attack on the US Congress
Read this year-end letter from AZC Leadership, and see some of the highlights from the past year.
Feeling Gratitude in the New Year, and a 2020 Year-End Review
We are excited to announce that the Austin Zen Center Board is starting a tradition of collectively articulating long term…
AZC Visioning – Looking Forward to 2020
Watch AZC sangha member & artist Jess Engle on Zen & Art and her creative process in making AZC's 2020 Year-End card.
Sangha Member Jess Engle on creating our Year-End Card
Interested in cultivating a wildflower garden?
Come see the results of our ongoing bamboo mitigation project - and help plant a wildflower garden!
See the results of our Bamboo Mitigation efforts – and help cultivate wildflowers!
It is with much sadness & great appreciation that we bid farewell to outgoing Board President Dave P, who will be moving to the East Coast later this month.
A Fond Farewell to our Board President, Dave Pietruszynski – with much gratitude.
Watch Austin Area Buddhists in iACT's recent Day of Thanks: Love Has No Distance
Love Has No Distance! Watch iACT’s Interfaith Day of Thanks (with Austin Area Buddhists)
Explore traditional Sōtō zen forms during morning services during the Fall Practice Period. Here is a short guide.
Practice Period Morning Forms & Service
AZC endorses ITRC's Climate Change Mental Wellness & Resilience Policy, and you can too!
Endorse ITRC’s Climate Change Mental Wellness & Resilience Policy
Yvonne Rand, a significant member of the first generation of Zen teachers in America (and a big part of our lineage and history) died this past August. Read her obituary here.
In Memorium: Yvonne Rand
Join our Anti-Racism Study Modules this Winter
AZC's Waking Up Group is launching new study modules starting January 17th. Everyone respectfully interested (BIPOC, White-identified &/or Unidentified) is welcome!
AZC WAKING UP – Winter 2021 Modules
All are welcome to respectfully and compassionately join us in our traditional Soto Zen memorial service - in support of our fellow bereaved Sangha members and for all beings.
Memorial Services for our Departed Friends & Family
Saturday, September 12th at 10am
Join us for Visiting Teacher Dawn Neal, speaking on early Buddhist teachings from the Pāli Canon.
Ancient Buddhist Teachings on Racism and Responding to Social Strife – A Dharma Talk by Dawn Neal
AZC member Rich Graf has kept up his practice of arranging flowers for AZC altars: Read about it here.
Flowers of Compassion
Saturday, September 26th from 5-6pm
Join us for this auspicious ceremony celebrating 4 of our sangha members receiving lay-ordination.
Bodhisattva Initiation Ceremony (Zaike Tokudo)
AZC's 100 year old building, grounds, & repairs is an ongoing project. Here's where we are in our stewardship of the treasure that is our temple. We are currently looking for volunteers to help with watering our heat-fatigued plants!
AZC Building and Grounds: Repairs & Maintenance Updates
Some simple practices for taking great care during a time of COVID19.
Living with Great Care for Fellow Beings
Read a message from Soto Zen Headquarters and watch a short video on zazen, by Rev. Gaelyn Godwin.
Now is the Time to Practice Zazen: A Message from Soto-shu Headquarters
We are looking into ways to make giving and receiving to one another simple and straightforward in the weeks and months to come.
About AZC’s Emergency Relief Fund
Send in a photo of your home altar and/or a few words about your home practice during the pandemic - to be featured in our next newsletter!
Our Zendo Away From Zendo
Keep in touch with Rev. Koji Dreher (now in Minneapolis) through his recently created website.
Staying in Touch: A Letter from Koji
Thoughts on a Pastime as Practice
Read about AZC member Nick Salome's practice with Sculpture
Sculpture As Practice, by Nick Salome
Read a few words from visiting teacher & Branching Streams liaison Tova Green
Sangha photo from AZC’s last day, and words from Tova Green
An Appeal to help keep Cuke Archives Thriving A Message from David Chadwick Back in 1966, at the age of 21, I rang the bell of…