Big River Zen Practice Group -- Find your true self.

Weekly practice:
Tuesdays at 7:30pm-8:30pm

Latvian Lutheran Church,
3152 17th Ave South, 2nd floor

Sundays from 6:30pm-8:30pm
Latvian Lutheran Church,
3152 17th Ave South, 2nd floor

Big River Zen Practice Group holds weekly practice in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of south Minneapolis. We follow the practices and forms of the Kwan Um School of Zen (more) founded by Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn (1927-2004) (more). Ours is a vigorous practice of sitting, chanting and bowing with a strong emphasis on together-action.

ALL ARE WELCOME! Beginners and the curious can feel comfortable checking us out. We'll give you an orientation about Zen and the forms. Even if you are not comfortable in standard meditation positions, there is a posture that will work for you.

During a Dharma talk at the Lexington Zen Center, Zen Master Seung Sahn said to the assembly, "In the Bible, Jesus says, 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' Zen also says that if you attain your true self, then you attain the correct way, truth and correct life."
     "So what is the correct way:" a student asked Zen Master Seung Sahn.
     "Why do you eat every day? Only for your body, because of personal desire? Only for you? That is the same as being an animal. On the other hand, if your eating is for all beings, then your life and direction are clear. The name for that is the correct way."
     "Then what is truth?" the student asked.
     "If you attain the true way, your mind is clear like space. Then when you see and hear clearly, everything is truth.:
     "What is correct life?" the student asked.
     Zen Master Seung Sahn answered, "If you attain the truth, then you must correctly function as truth, by keeping correct situatin, correct relationship, and correct funtion, moment to moment. The names of this are Great Love, Great Compassion or the Great Boedhisattva Way. That is correct life."

from The Whole World Is a Single Flower, p.2