Open Gate Zen Collective

Open Gate Zen Collective Open Gate Zen Collective is a Non-Profit 501(c)(3)
Community of Zen practitioners with the commitmen

https://www.ogzen.org/
12/30/2025

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Be Part of Our Mission!OG Annual Fundraising 2025Dear Dharma friends! I hope you can pause in the middle of this busy life to read this letter. As it happens this time around, our merriment meets strong forces pressing in all round us. This year are affected by very real challenges in the myriad c....

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12/25/2025

https://www.ogzen.org/og-givingtuesday-fundraising

Be Part of Our Mission!OG Annual Fundraising 2025Dear Dharma friends! I hope you can pause in the middle of this busy life to read this letter. As it happens this time around, our merriment meets strong forces pressing in all round us. This year are affected by very real challenges in the myriad c....

OG Awakening Weekend Retreat
12/15/2025

OG Awakening Weekend Retreat

Address

466 E Street
Chula Vista, CA
91910

Opening Hours

Monday 7pm - 8:30pm
Tuesday 7pm - 8:30pm
Wednesday 7pm - 8:30pm
Thursday 7pm - 8:30pm
Friday 7pm - 8:30pm
Saturday 9:30am - 11am

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Open Gate Zen Collective

Open Gate (OG) Zen Collective (4 Vows Sangha) emerged from multiple sitting groups gathered in San Diego. This included friends of Sensei Shinzan and the Carlsbad Zen Community. Thanks to the direction and generosity of Mark Koe Gunn, weekly sittings became available in his Carlsbad home in 2015. Later, Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma was invited to impart dharma teachings there. CZC later moved to Encinitas and became known as the sangha’s North County Group with its other half established in the South bay. Sweetwater Zen Center opens its space for the meditation group. Thus, 4 Vows Sangha (Now OG Zen Collective) came to be with the leadership and vision of Sensei Shinzan. OG Zen Collective is a group of people that share and are motivated by the practice of Zen (Zazen) and work together to achieve harmony in our lives for sake of 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 to serve others.

OUR VISION is to keep the practice of Zen, to wake up and to embody the 4 All-Embracing Vows:

Beings are numberless; I vow to Awaken them.