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“We can't do it by ourselves, and nobody else can do it for us.”
—GBZC Sutra Book
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Statements and Land Acknowledgment

Response to Asian-American Violence  (March 2021)

Eco-Anxiety and the Pandemic (Course recordings and resources, August-October 2020)

Statement Against Systemic Racism (June 2020)

Planning for End of Life Care and Funerals (April 2020)

Land Acknowledgment (February 2020):

Land Acknowledgment

Featured Events

  • New Programming: Society of Great Doubt

    Announcing the Society of Great Doubt, a sit for survivors of teacher abuses of power.
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  • December 2022 Sesshin

    Our next GBZC residential retreat will take place at Mercy by the Sea in Madison CT, December 15-18 2022.
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  • Potential New Thursday Evening Program

    Interested in sitting in the Cambridge zendo on Thursday evenings?
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  • Talk by Ben Connelly on October 18

    Save the date! Ben Connolly will be speaking on the theme, “Imagination, Interdependence, and Liberation: Practicing Yogacara Buddhism with Vasubandhu’s Three Natures” during our Tuesday evening practice period.
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  • Zendo Location Task Force

    The Task Force charged with coming up with options for our future physical zendo location meets every Wednesday from 6-6:30pm.
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  • “Caring for Our Community” Book Group

    The book group began Sept. 18, but there is still time to get the book and make it to some later sessions!
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  • Teaching Schedule

    Who is teaching on upcoming Saturdays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays?
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Podcast Information

Welcome to our Greater Boston Zen Center podcast, coming to you from Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can listen to dharma talks (teisho) given by our abbot Josh Jiun Bartok, Roshi and our two co-heads of practice Steve Wallace, Sensei and Dharma Holder Laura Wallace. For more information about teachers, events, and practice periods, go to our website: www.bostonzen.org