Latest News and Updates

Sitting into 2026 – The Tradition Continues

Once again, we will be Sitting into the New Year – online/on Zoom. We will start sitting at 8pm (EST) and alternate 30 minute sits with 10 min walks until shortly before midnight (Eastern Time). We then chant Kwan Seum Bosal (Bodhisattva of Compassion) into the New Year until ten minutes or so after midnight.Same READ MORE

December 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to OZC’s December newsletter! UPCOMING PRACTICE Our regular LONG SIT (Dec. 20), which happens the 3rd Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 3:00pm, is coming up this weekend. It is a “come as you can, leave as you must” event. All the details can be found on our website. This is a Zoom-only READ MORE

November 2025 Newsletter 

Thank you for reading our newsletter. We hope to grow it each month with more current opportunities to connect with our Orlando Sangha both in and outside of the Dharma room. We plan to send these newsletters out to subscribers every second Friday of the month, so be on the lookout for our next edition READ MORE

Newsletter

Sign up for our Newsletter! In November 2025, we launched a monthly newsletter. It is filled with information about the upcoming month’s activities with the Orlando Zen Center Sangha, including practice dates/times, long-sit details, and extracurricular volunteer opportunities.  We also include links to Dharma talks from our Sangha members, and other contributions from our members, READ MORE

Sitting into 2025

Once again, the tradition continues: Sitting into the New Year – online/on Zoom. We will start sitting at 8pm (EST) and alternate 30 minute sits with 10 min walks until shortly before midnight (Eastern Time). We then chant Kwan Seum Bosal (Bodhisattva of Compassion) into the New Year until ten minutes or so after midnight.Same READ MORE

Change change change

After Joybirds closed its doors, a new opportunity arose – in the same location!  From mid-November on, we will be able to meet again in person in the same bookstore location as before – the owner of the new bookstore  The New Romantics, has agreed to offer us the same space for our Sunday evening practice. READ MORE

Thank you to Andrew and Joybird Books

A big THANK YOU to Joybird Books and Andrew Walker for offering OZC space for the last 2 years to hold our in-person practice on Sunday nights. As Joybird is closing at the end of October 2024, and we will look for a new location for in person practice on Sunday nights. Stay tuned for READ MORE

Sitting into the New Year 2023/2024

Once again, the tradition continues: Sitting into the New Year – online/on Zoom this year. We will start sitting at 7pm (EST) and alternate 30 minute sits with 10 min walks until shortly before midnight. We then chant Kwan Seum Bosal (Bodhisattva of Compassion) into the New Year until ten minutes or so after midnight.Same READ MORE

Sitting into the New Year

The tradition continues: Sitting into the New Year – online/on Zoom this year. We will start sitting at 8pm (EST) and alternate 30 minute sits with 10 min walks until shortly before midnight. We then chant Kwan Seum Bosal (Bodhisattva of Compassion) into the New Year until ten minutes or so after midnight.Same zoom link READ MORE

Return of In-Person Sunday Practice

Orlando Zen Center is returning to in-person practice on Sunday evenings at Joybird Books in Audubon Park: 3018 Corrine Drive, Orlando, Florida 32803 Directions. If attending in person, please wear a mask. The Zoom option continues. READ MORE