Welcome...

to an authentic Zen practice center in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Whether you are a local or from out of town, please make it a point to stop in. If you want to start or renew a Zen practice, you have come to the right place. Our members come from all over the Tampa Bay area and include all age groups. Our goal is to spread the Dharma by encouraging everyone to start a Zen practice at home and to strengthen it with group sittings. We offer weekly sittings, quarterly sesshins (intensive meditation retreats), workshops, veggie potluck dinners, and other activities that encourage practice.

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April 3, 2005 at the Possum Creek Zendo

A special transmission outside the scriptures;

No dependence upon words and letters;

Direct pointing to the mind of man;

Seeing into one's own nature and attainment of Buddhahood.

-----------------Bodhidharma, First patriarch of Zen

 

I felt like a fish swimming in cool, clear water, after having been stuck in glue.

-----Roshi Philip Kapleau, The Three Pillars of Zen