Top 30 Zen Blogs in the US
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1. Zen Habits
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Description Zen Habits is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It's about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what's important, create something amazing, and find happiness. Leo Babauta is the Creator of Zen Habits living in San Diego, California.MORE Email ****@zenhabits.net
Location San Diego, California, United States
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2. Karen Maezen Miller
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Description Cheerio Road is a blog brought to you by Karen Maezen Miller. I'm a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. I write about spirituality in everyday life.MORE Location Sierra Madre, California, United States
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3. Empty Gate Zen Center Blog
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Description This blog is a teaching blog brought to you by Empty Gate Zen Center, which provides training in Zen meditation affiliated with The Kwan Um School of Zen.
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Location Berkeley, California, United States
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4. Brooklyn Zen Center
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Description Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) is an embodied training community in the Soto Zen tradition. We aspire to offer opportunities to realize personal and collective liberation through the cultivation of intimate, ethical, and just relationships with ourselves and all beings. Our vow to practice undoing harmful and oppressive conditioning compassionately transforms our world.MORE Email ****@brooklynzen.org
Location Millerton, Pennsylvania, United States
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5. Santa Cruz Zen Center
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Description News and Teachings from the Santa Cruz Zen Center. The purpose of our Center is to embody and communicate the teachings of the Buddha. Our understanding of the non-duality of compassion and wisdom, practice and realization, has been conveyed through the Soto School.MORE Email ****@sczc.org
Location Santa Cruz, California, United States
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6. Zen Center of Denver Blog
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Description The Zen Center of Denver offers meditation instruction, daily meditation and retreats with authentic Zen teachers and a community of seasoned meditation practitioners.
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Location Denver, Colorado, United States
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7. New Orleans Zen Temple
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Description New Orleans Zen Temple practices traditional Zen practices in the heart of New Orleans. Sam Kearley leads the group with great commitment, and the university has been very supportive, dedicating space in the Meditation Chapel of the beautiful All Saints' Chapel.MORE Email ****@sewanee.edu
Location New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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8. Zen Fellowship of Bakersfield Blog
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Description Dedicated to the practice of zazen, or Zen meditation, in the Soto tradition of Taisen Deshimaru and Kodo Sawaki. We are an American Zen Association member organization affiliated with the New Orleans Zen Temple, the Zen Fellowship of Alexandria, Louisiana, and more. Go through our blog to know more about us, and how we work.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Bakersfield, California, United States
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9. Jason Quinn Zen Blog
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Description Blog by Jason Quinn, author of No-Nonsense Zen for Beginners, about Zen, meditation, life, and purpose. This website is dedicated to Zen, meditation, and life. He hopes that this can be valuable for anyone looking to investigate life, understand themselves, and respond to this world clearly and helpfully.MORE Email ****@jasonquinnzen.com
Location Santa Clara, California, United States
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10. Buffalo Zen Dharma Community Blog
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Description The Buffalo Zen Dharma Community has begun its usual full-service weekly Tuesday night meditation program at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Read our blog to know more about our community, what we do, what happens at our gatherings, and many more!MORE Email ****@buffalozen.org
Location Buffalo, New York, United States
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11. Patheos Blog » Monkey Mind
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Description Patheos is the world's leading multi-faith site dedicated to hosting the conversation on faith. This blog is written by James Ford, who is a Zen Buddhist priest and author, which mostly addresses aspects of the Zen life.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Long Beach, California, United States
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12. San Francisco Zen Center » Zen Practice
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Description San Francisco Zen Center is a Soto Zen community where the offerings of zazen, study and work practice are available to a diverse population of students, visitors, lay people, priests, and monks.MORE Email ****@sfzc.org
Location San Francisco, California, United States
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13. Open Gate Zen Collective Blog
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Description OG (Open Gate) Zen collective is a group of people that share, and are motivated, by the practice of Zen to achieve a more harmonious world. Our mission is to gather and practice zazen (Zen meditation) and develop Zen training. We practice to realize and embody what our Zen ancestors have done for centuries, to realize our Buddha nature, to awaken, and serve others.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Chula Vista, California, United States
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14. No Gate Zen Center Blog
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Description No Gate Zen Center is a traditional and not-so-traditional Zen Buddhist sangha. Our lineage is Soto and Rinzai Zen and we engage in Dream-Koan* practice as well as other beautiful and inspirational, diverse Buddhist practices. Our practices are relevant, vibrant, and deeply meaningful in today's world. Read our blog to know more about our practices.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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15. Hardcore Zen
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Description Hardcore Zen is a blog managed by Brad Warner, an author and ordained Zen priest. He released a book with the same name, which serves as both an autobiography and an introduction to Soto Zen philosophy.MORE Location Los Angeles, California, United States
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16. The Existential Buddhist
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Description The Existential Buddhist is non-sectarian, exploring Buddhism from the point of view of reason and lived experience, rather than from adherence to dogma and/or spiritual authority.
Email ****@existentialbuddhist.com
Location Westchester, Illinois, United States
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17. Jade Mountain Buddha Hall
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Description This blog is written by Rev. Mugo, who has practiced Soto Zen within the OBC first hand. Jade Mountains contains, and points to, various sources of Buddhist teachings.
Location Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
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18. Mountain Record
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Description Mountain Record is the oldest American Zen quarterly, a spiritual journal by the Zen Mountain Monastery with Rinzai & Soto Zen Buddhism teachings, poems & more. For nearly four decades, Mountain Record quarterly journal offered spiritual seekers of all faiths a unique journey through words and images.MORE Email ****@dharma.net
Location New York, United States
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19. Zen Center of Las Vegas
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Description Zen Center of Las Vegas's mission is to help us understand and see our situation and life direction. We create suffering in this world by thoughts of, 'Here I am, this is where I want to be.' We're always projecting outward. We're clouded by 'I, my, me.' By getting rid of judgmental thought, we get back to the essence of who we are, which is compassion.'MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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20. Blue Mountain Zendo
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Description Blue Mountain Zendo nurtures and builds upon the initial spark of awakening which occurs as the catalyst for our awakening process, and together with the sangha, forges a personal path that reveals the true source of that rudimentary spark. It is true to traditional Rinzai Zen form and offers traditional liturgy, koan practice, ceremony, dokusan, zazen, intensity, and discipline.MORE Email ****@bluemountainzendo.org
Location Pennsylvania, United States
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21. The Zen Community of Oregon
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Description Zen Community of Oregon is a Soto Zen Buddhist community in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995). Maezumi Roshi's life vow was to plant the Dharma deeply on the soil of North America. The monastery aspires to maintain authentic, whole-hearted practice while keeping the teachings open and accessible to anyone with a sincere desire to practice the Buddha way.MORE Email ****@zendust.org
Location Clatskanie, Oregon, United States
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22. The Zennist | Going to the very heart of Zen
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Description I have dedicated my life to see what the Buddha saw. So far I've been lucky. Follow to get updates from my blog.
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Location Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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23. Tim Burkett's Blog | Zen Buddhist Teachings
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Description This blog is written by Tim Burkett who is psychologist, author, and Guiding Teacher at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center.
Email ****@mnzencenter.org
Location Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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24. The One Open Door
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Description This website is dedicated to the practice of Zen Buddhist Meditation and to the work of ending suffering.
Email ****@gmail.com
Location Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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25. Firefly Hall Blog
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Description This blog is brought to you by Melisa Blacker, who offers private guidance in Zen meditation and gives Zen talks at daily practice periods at Boundless Way Temple.
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Location Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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26. Zen Embodiment
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Description Zen Embodiment is all about movement, meditation, and internal processes. Here you can find mind-healing articles like don't be vulgar move with essences, mind transmission, the second breath recorded, you have to love your practice, and many more!MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location Seattle, Washington, United States
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27. Not Quite Zen Blog
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Description If you've ever felt anxiety, depression, and anger, or struggled with the challenges of daily life then this Not Quite Zen is for you. It is about taking small steps toward a better life, but it's also about acceptance. Get insight into all the problems, solutions, tips, and information related to mental health.MORE Email ****@notquitezen.co
Location Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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28. San Mateo Zen Blog
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Description San Mateo Zen community, an affiliate of the PACIFIC ZEN INSTITUTE, is a welcoming group of mostly Silicon Valley and San Francisco professionals, homemakers, craftspeople, and students who have joined together as a community to practice Zen. We have entered a path that is at once both fresh and ancient, both impermanent and enduring. A path of exploration, discovery, and freedom.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location San Francisco, California, United States
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29. Zen Master Dogen
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Description Focuses on the teaching of the Great Master and founder of Soto Zen. The site features downloads of his work, recommended books and analysis, related teachings from modern Zen Masters, audiofiles and podcasts, and more.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Location San Francisco, California, United States
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Zen Bloggers
| Blogger Name | Designation | Blog Link | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Babauta | Author | zenhabits.net/archives | |
| Sam Kearly | Author | neworleanszentemple.org | |
| Richard Collins | Author | neworleanszentemple.org | |
| Jason Quinn | Author | jasonquinnzen.com/blog | |
| Brad Warner | Author | hardcorezen.info | |
| Seth Zuiho Segall | Author | existentialbuddhist.com | |
| The Existential Buddhist | Editorial Inquiries | existentialbuddhist.com | |
| Corey Hess | Author | zenembodiment.com | |
| Tony Hardman | Author | notquitezen.co/blog | |
| JON JOSEPH | Author | sanmateozen.org/blog |