Sydney Zen Centre

Australia's Original Zen Buddhist Community

We are a lay group and a member of the Diamond Sangha a worldwide network of Zen Buddhist groups

OUR PRACTICE

Zazen or seated meditation is a path to discovering insight and wisdom

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NEWCOMERS

We offer regular beginners orientation nights for newcomers to Zen. Please book to attend

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OUR SCHEDULE

We have online and in-person meditation, both twice a week, and hold regular talks and ceremonies and seasonal retreats

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What's On

02/11/2026 7:00 PM -9:00 PM

Meditation

03/11/2026 7:00 PM -8:30 PM By Peter Bursky, Jane Andino

Online Meditation

15/11/2026 10:00 AM -12:00 PM By Maggie Gluek

Memorial Ceremony

Encouraging Words

Neither Good Nor Evil

02/11/2026

This talk discusses Hui-neng’s journey to East Mountain to become a monk under the fifth patriarch Hung-jen. It considers the...

Countless Dharma Gates

30/10/2026

This teisho weaves koans, words from Layman P’ang and Joko Beck, suggests ways to wake to the countless Dharma Gates from...

Wake Up!

25/10/2026

You may have come across Yantou in the koan collections as the student of Deshan and the good dharma brother of Hsueh-feng. Yantou lived in 9th century China...