News
Kyol Che
This year for Kyol Che (Saturday
January 5 til Saturday, April 5) we will be hosting
additional practice on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
[More Details]
Welcome!
Saturday night, (9/8/07) after
two days of sitting
Fort Collins Zen Center (FCZC) is a brand new non-profit organization founded in 2007 in Fort Collins, Colorado. We offer training in Zen meditation through meditation instruction, weekly practice, monthly mini-retreats, public dharma talks, kong-an interviews, and workshops. Our programs are open to anyone regardless of previous experience and are often offered at no cost.
Support the People of Burma
In the fall of 2007, the monks of Burma, perhaps the most Buddhist country in the world, began a highly unusual and dangerous public demonstration against their nations military dicatorship. Now, in the aftermath of cyclone Nargis, which passed over the most populated province of Burma in early May of this year, the Burmese people continue to suffer at the hands of the regime. Read about how you can support their struggle for freedom, democracy, and literally life itself.
'Hatred does not cease by hatred. Hatred ceases by Love alone. This is Universal Law'
- The DhammapadaFCZC is affiliated with the Kwan Um School of Zen Buddhism. The Kwan Um School of Zen is an international organization with more than sixty centers and groups founded by Zen Master Seung Sahn, the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West. Zen Master Seung Sahn is the 78th Patriarch in his line of Dharma Transmission in the Chogye order of Korean Buddhism. Our guiding teacher Zen Master Soeng Hyang (Barbara Rhodes) became one of Zen Master Seung Sahn's first American students in 1972, and received dharma transmission from him in 1992. She now serves as School Zen Master and Guiding Dharma Teacher of the Kwan Um School of Zen. A registered nurse since 1969, she also works for Hospice Care of Rhode Island. The heart of the Kwan Um School of Zen and Fort Collins Zen Center is Zen practice. We invite you to practice with us.
The Human Route
Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed -- that is human.
When you are born, where do you come from?
When you die, where do you go?
Life is like a floating cloud which appears.
Death is like a floating cloud which disappears.
The floating cloud itself originally does not exist.
Life and death, coming and going, are also like that.
But there is one thing which always remains clear.
It is pure and clear, not depending on life and death.
Then what is the one pure and clear thing?
