We are currently practicing online in order to support the safety and health of our Sangha. Please see our online zendo for more information. Haku-un-ji Zen Center offers traditional Rinzai Zen Buddhist meditation and practice for beginners as well as experienced meditators. Our primary practice is zazen, or seated meditation.
The form combines compassion and structure to help us focus and experience our heart and the world together. We also offer chanting, walking meditation (kinhin), retreats (zazenkais), book discussion groups and multi-day retreats with visiting teachers.
The form combines compassion and structure to help us focus and experience our heart and the world together. We also offer chanting, walking meditation (kinhin), retreats (zazenkais), book discussion groups and multi-day retreats with visiting teachers.
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Founded in 1994 by Zen priest Sokai Geoffrey Barratt, Haku-un-ji (White Cloud Temple) provides a tranquil and supportive environment for the practice and study of Zen Buddhism in the tradition of Rinzai (Lin-Chi), a prominent 9th century Chinese Master. Rinzai Zen as practiced here, has come to us from Japan.
Haku-un-ji Zen Center is financially supported through memberships, suggested donations for daily sittings, gifts of time, and donations from people like you. All financial donations are gratefully received no matter the amount. Haku-un-ji Zen Center is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and all donations are tax deductible.
If you have not attended an orientation session please contact us to schedule an online session before joining our online zendo. Please sit still for the entire period of zazen, just as if you are in the physical zendo. Please turn On your Zoom video. If there is an issue with this, please discuss with our temple director via email or contact page.
We have moved our practice online until further notice to support the safety and health of the community. Along with this we have temporarily suspended our zazenkai schedule. Zazenkai (zazen meetings) are single or multi-day meditation retreats that offer the opportunity to deepen your practice through your concentrated effort, sitting together with the support of others and the form of the practice.
After this old monk's pilgrimage, some of you may have rich temples with large halls and volumes of sutras decorated with gold and silver, full of noisy enthusiasts; or may read sutras and recite dharanis, do zazen for long periods without lying down, eat only breakfast, and work day and night.
Although you do these things, if you don't set your mind on the marvelous untransmitted way of Buddha and the enlightened ones, you immediately deny cause and effect, and the true teaching falls to the ground.All these are a bunch of devils, and though this old monk may have left this world for a long time, you are not to be allowed to call yourselves my descendants.
Although you do these things, if you don't set your mind on the marvelous untransmitted way of Buddha and the enlightened ones, you immediately deny cause and effect, and the true teaching falls to the ground.All these are a bunch of devils, and though this old monk may have left this world for a long time, you are not to be allowed to call yourselves my descendants.
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Harenton Earnshaw
Jan 13, 2022
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Adriana B.
Oct 25, 2017
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Lovely location. It's in a neighborhood, so there is street parking outside. Pass through the gate just beyond the driveway into the homes backyard. People are likely to greet you here. The zendo (meditation hall) is the other structure in the backyard. Very kind and welcoming people. An introductory lesson is typically required before sitting. It was very informative as there are a quite a few traditions to follow. Three 25 minute sittings, one walking meditation, chanting, followed by tea. It's not a requirement to stay for all of the sittings.
I felt very welcomed and am very much
I felt very welcomed and am very much
Anth L.
Apr 13, 2017
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Markus R.
Apr 26, 2009
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This is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Temple, which was founded by Kyozan Joshu Roshi. Kyozan Joshu Roshi was born in 1907, and came to the United States in 1962. Currently, as of this writing, he is still actively teaching in the United States and has visited this Zen Center located in Tempe on several different occasions. The monks and nuns here are very friendly, knowledgeable, and approachable. Go to the web site or call the phone number for more information. If you've ever been interested in Zen Buddhism, check out this temple, it is definitely worth your time and effort. This is the real deal
