From the 2024 Monterey Bay Zen Center Fundraising Card
Image by Scott Bryan, Seeing the Invisible.

Monterey Bay
Zen Center

Monterey Bay Zen Center is an active Zen community which meditates, practices and gathers around the Monterey Bay. Founded by Sobun Katherine Thanas Roshi in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, we now have a council of four teachers who rotate as Guiding Teacher through the seasons and a community that is as deeply dedicated to the warm care of each other.

Four ways to give to Monterey Bay Zen Center

Select from any option that works best for you and your intention:

1) Donate in response to the annual Fundraising Card

2) Join as a monthly Contributing Member

3) Register for classes or activities

4) Donate for any purpose, e.g., teacher gift, Brown Bag Zen

from the Teaching Council and Board of Directors of Monterey Bay Zen Center

Monterey Bay Zen Center: Ethics, Diversity & Wellbeing

The Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts, integral to sangha harmony and safety, serve as a guide for our ethical conduct… (read more).

On Systemic Racism. In deep grief over the recent murders and the long history of racist violence, death and oppression during the last centuries, we acknowledge the deep-seated, systemic, and structural racism that poisons life in the United States of America.. (read more).

Wellbeing. New in-person practice protocols forthcoming.

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Deborah Good. “Midnight Meditation”, 2015. Color pencil on paper
©Deborah Good. Please see additional credits.