At Buddha Soto Zen we embrace zazen as undefiled sitting meditation, the ground of Buddha’s wisdom and compassion that manifest in our daily lives as Daishin. Daishin is the Magnanimus Mind that, like the ocean receives all the water coming from all different rivers, without making any discrimination among them.
Thus, Daishin Zendo is an urban practice place where everybody can practice the Buddha Dharma being embraced and embracing all beings, putting aside for some minutes our agitation and worries.
We also aim to do Spanish translations of Buddhist teachings in an effort to make available those wonderful teachings to Hispanic communities all over the world.

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Daily Schedule

AM (MON-FRI)

  • 5:10- 6:40 Zazen-Kinhin-zazen
  • 6:40 Short service (chanting)

PM (MON-THU)

  • 7:00-8:30 Zazen-Kinhin-zazen


SATURDAY (AM only)

  • 7:00- 8:30 Zazen-Kinhin-zazen
  • 8:30 Short service (chanting)
  • 8:45 Soji
  • 9:10- 10:10 Dharma talk Q&A / /
  • 10:20 Tea

WEDNESDAY (PM weekly)

  • 7:00- 7:45 Introduction to zazen

News & Events

Half day Zazenkai, September 11th

August 27, 2010

Schedule 6:45 Arrival 7:00-7:40 Zazen 7:40-7:50 Kin hin 7:50-8:30 Zazen (Dokusan/interviews) 8:30-9:10 Kin hin 9:10-9:30 Service (chanting) 9:30-10:20 BREAKFAST/CLEAN UP/BREAK 10:20-11:00 Zazen 11:00-11:10 Kin hin 11:10-11:50 Dharma talk Q&A 11:50-12:30 Zazen CLOSING GATHERING Contribution: $ 15 Please confirm your participation on the web or by phone. Tel: 305.821.1529

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Introduction to sesshin with no toys, September 24-26

August 16, 2010

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July 26, 2010

During the month of August, we will be in the process of restructuring the programming and events as follows: we will not be holding the regular Saturday schedule, zazenkai; Monday through Friday the morning program will continue as scheduled; the evening zazen will be held on August 13, 20, 27, and the introduction to zazen [...]

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Sesshin

July 17, 2010

Sesshin with no toys. July 22-25 In “Opening the Hand of Thought”, Uchiyama Roshi says: “It seems to me that we spend all our lives playing with  toys. It begins as soon as we are born. The first toy is  the nipple of the milk bottle”. .. “Right up to our death,  we exchange one [...]

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Daishin Talk

Searching for Happiness

July 18, 2010

SEARCHING FOR HAPPINESS We, as human beings, have a strong tendency to create many different worlds in our minds and, at times, we live in those worlds that we only create: the world of work, the world of family, the world of friends, and the world of practice. We live in the stories we fabricate. [...]

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The Buddha Path: The Path of Peace

May 22, 2010

When we look at the definition of peace, its meaning is always related to war. That is the psychological pattern that guides us in our understanding of what peace means, but there is another way to look at peace that does not have to do with war, and which goes deeper into our most intimate [...]

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