New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care

New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care Education | Care | Meditation

Our vision: A more awakened and wholehearted existence for all.
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11/24/2025

Seperation by W.S Merwin, read by Chodo Sensei

“People get stuck a lot because they’re afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that w...
11/04/2025

“People get stuck a lot because they’re afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can’t function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn’t wait.” We remember you Roshi Bernie Tetsugen Glassman on this the 7th year of your passing.

New Podcast 🎧 Failure, Zombies & the Grasping MindWhat if failure isn’t weakness, but the heart of practice?Koshin Sense...
11/03/2025

New Podcast 🎧 Failure, Zombies & the Grasping Mind

What if failure isn’t weakness, but the heart of practice?

Koshin Sensei reflects on the endlessness of practice, the pull of validation, and the freedom of letting go.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or our site: https://www.zencare.org/posts/failure-zombies-grasping

Image: Marcel Duchamp, 1912

10/31/2025

“For the Living” by Rosemerry Trommer, read by Chodo Sensei.

10/30/2025

“The River is Famous to the Fish” by Naomi Shihab Nye, read by Chodo Sensei.

New Podcast 🎧 The Heart of Living the WayWhat happens when we stop chasing meaning and start trusting our experience?Fol...
10/29/2025

New Podcast 🎧 The Heart of Living the Way

What happens when we stop chasing meaning and start trusting our experience?

Following his birthday earlier this month, Koshin Sensei reflects on the quiet gift of being alive — and how awakening begins in the ordinariness of our lives.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or our site: https://www.zencare.org/posts/the-heart-of-living-the-way

Fellowship is a place of practice. What a deep joy to be on our first residential retreat with our amazing fifth cohort ...
10/25/2025

Fellowship is a place of practice. What a deep joy to be on our first residential retreat with our amazing fifth cohort of Contemplative Medicine Fellows. It is a deep honor and a joy to learn, grow and transform together. More soon!

10/22/2025

Sangha (community and belonging) can be the hardest refuge to embrace.

In this video, Koshin Sensei reflects on what it means to move beyond our preferences and open to connection.

Explore this teaching more deeply with Koshin Sensei’s “An Introduction to Zen Meditation” 3+ hour video course.

Link in bio.

New Podcast 🎧 The Acupuncture Needle of ZenIn this recent talk, Koshin Sensei shares a day of stark contrasts: one momen...
10/20/2025

New Podcast 🎧 The Acupuncture Needle of Zen

In this recent talk, Koshin Sensei shares a day of stark contrasts: one moment lifted by praise, the next weighed down by criticism.

How do we steady ourselves when the ground keeps shifting? How do we meet both the beauty and brutality of the world without losing heart?

Koshin turns to Uchiyama Roshi’s teaching of Having Few Desires, an invitation to rest with dissatisfaction rather than trying to escape it. Through zazen, we learn to see clearly, without swinging to extremes, and to return again and again to wholehearted presence.

Listen now via the link in bio or on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

10/09/2025

In Zen practice, we learn to step out of the constant stream of repetitive thoughts and return to presence. This isn’t about escaping the mind, but about reshaping how we experience life, moment by moment.

Explore this teaching more deeply with Koshin Sensei’s “An Introduction to Zen Meditation” 3+ hour video course.

Link in bio

New Podcast 🎧 When the Bottom Falls OutIn this recent dharma talk, Chodo Sensei invites us into a story of mushotoku—the...
10/06/2025

New Podcast 🎧 When the Bottom Falls Out

In this recent dharma talk, Chodo Sensei invites us into a story of mushotoku—the practice of gaining nothing—about a 13th-century nun, Mugai Nyodai, whose spiritual breakthrough came at the moment the bottom fell out of her water bucket.

Interwoven with a moving poem by Marie Howe and richly honest stories of caregiving, spiritual ego, and devoted attention without attachment, this dharma talk offers a rare reflection on practicing for the sake of presence, not reward.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or our site: https://www.zencare.org/posts/when-the-bottom-falls-out

New Podcast 🎧 When the Bottom Falls OutIn this recent dharma talk, Chodo Sensei invites us into a story of mushotoku—the...
10/06/2025

New Podcast 🎧 When the Bottom Falls Out

In this recent dharma talk, Chodo Sensei invites us into a story of mushotoku—the practice of gaining nothing—about a 13th-century nun, Mugai Nyodai, whose spiritual breakthrough came at the moment the bottom fell out of her water bucket.

Interwoven with a moving poem by Marie Howe and richly honest stories of caregiving, spiritual ego, and devoted attention without attachment, this dharma talk offers a rare reflection on practicing for the sake of presence, not reward.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or our site (link in bio)!

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