Open Gate Zen Collective

09/22/2025

Check our OG Zendo schedule for the month of October, adding more sitting and talks liked to Upaya Zen Center.

09/22/2025

Join us this Fall Practice in OG Zendo (OG Schedule) linked to the practice period in Upaya Zen Center (our Mother Temple)

Soon after you register, you will receive an email with a link to the Resource Page, which is where all of the recordings and readings are listed. It may take a few minutes to reach you.

09/15/2025

OG Practice Council Fall 2025! - https://mailchi.mp/9248418c2cb5/fallcouncilflyer2025

09/06/2025

¡Hola! Organizamos un día completo de meditación de 6 de la mañana hasta las 6 de la noche! Esta práctica silenciosa de un día completo nos brindará una experiencia profunda de meditación ininterrumpida y el Zen. Haremos meditación sentada (zazen), meditación caminando (kinhin) y una charla sobre el Dharma. Este día completo de meditación es una gran oportunidad para familiarizarse con la meditación y la forma Zen. También brindará una version de un retiro de meditación intensivo, mejor conocido como “Sesshin”. Evento con una comida vegetariana.

Favor de reservar si tengan interés!

Donativo de $54 a $108. A nadie se le negara la participacion por falta de fundos.

08/04/2025

Last week today marked the end of the practice 36 day period and the end of our 3rd full sesshin! Spiritual friendship is truly the whole Way!

07/10/2025

Soon after you register, you will receive an email with a link to the Resource Page, which is where all of the recordings and readings are listed. It may take a few minutes to reach you.

07/10/2025

Saturdays At 9:30 am Zazen and teachings 466 E St. Chula Vista, CA 91910

07/02/2025

Every Wednesday OG Zazen. we gather to meditate (Zazen) together as a community. at 7 pm at 466 E St. Chula Vista, CA.

“Good friends! You already possess the prajna wisdom of enlightenment! But because your minds are deluded, you can’t understand by yourselves. You need to find a truly good friend to show you the way to see your nature. Good friends, buddha nature isn’t different for the ignorant and the wise. It’s just that people are deluded or awake. When people are deluded, they’re ignorant. When they wake up, they become wise. www.ogzen.org
Platform Sutra By Huineng

06/29/2025

Summer 2025 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/e913c6c527a4/summernewsletter2025

06/25/2025

OG Zazen Wednesday at 7pm at 466 E St. Chula Vista, CA 91910
Every Wednesday OG Zazen. we gather to meditate (Zazen) together as a community.
Some Zen Teachings Enjoy it
"When he arrived at the East Mountain Monastery and asked for the master's instruction, he was simply put to work with the field laborers winnowing rice (as he was from a poor class, not a monk, and perhaps an ethnic minority). Several months later, he heard that Master Hongren had invited all the monks of the monastery to try composing a verse that would show their understanding of the Way of Awakening. Hearing that the head monk had written a verse on a temple wall, the young wood-seller, being illiterate, asked a friendly monk to read him what the head monk had written. The head monk's verse read:

The body is the Bodhi Tree,
the mind is the stand for a bright mirror -
at all times diligently polish
to remain untainted by dust.

Huineng then asked the monk to help him write his own verse on the wall:

Bodhi has no tree,
nor is there a stand for the mirror.
Our true nature is forever pure,
so where can dust gather?

When Master Hongren read the first verse, he praised the head monk's sentiments as useful advice for practice. When he read the young man's verse he pointed out to those present that, “This is still not complete understanding.” Later that night, however, he met privately with the young Huineng, expressed approval for his insight, and gave him further teaching. He then instructed the young man to leave the monastery to avoid contention, and practice in seclusion. Thus Huineng went to live with hunters and woodsmen in the forest, as well as workers and merchants in towns, and remained in obscurity for sixteen years.

06/15/2025

Happy Father’s Day to all dads in the Sangha.

06/15/2025

OG Practice Period 2025! - https://mailchi.mp/aa3ee343849d/ogpracticeperiodcouncil2025