-= LINKS =-

I'm going to use this entry as a list of links to websites that I have found to be the most useful in supporting my practice. I hope you can find something that is helpful to you. Please come back often as I will be updating this list on a frequent basis (with newer additions at the top).

• Tidewater Zen Group - Found this group in my travels on the web and just wanted to bookmark it here. They have a translation of the Sandokai here if you’re looking.
• Today at Meetingbrook - I like the thoughts and writings here a lot! Definitely kindred spirits!! I wish I lived closer to Maine to pay this sangha a visit, they sound really neat.
• Zen Center of Pittsburgh - is a Soto Zen Buddhist center in my home state of Pennsylvania. Although it's probably 6 or 7 hours away by car, I would like to visit there someday.
• MyZendo - Hey, here's a cool little applet that rings bells and claps clappers for you at pre-set intervals for timing your meditation period. The coolest part is you can even build your own custom meditation timer for what suits your needs. Very well done and the bells actually sound good to boot!! Go try it out!!
• Ordinary Mind Zendo - This Zendo is in the tradition of Charlotte Joko Beck. The teacher here is Barry Magid. What I like about this site is the teachings page and the writings by the sangha members. What they share here I find very helpful in encouraging my daily practice.
• Austin Zen Center & Zenkei-ji Buddhist Temple - Here's a cool Zen Center web site. AZC is in the tradition of Suzuki-roshi and has a nice one page summary of Soto Zen.
• Bellingham Zen Practice Group - Founded in 1991, the Bellingham Zen Practice Group is a cooperative group of Zen students practicing together in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
• Soto Zen Text Project (SZTP) - This is a project undertaken by the International Division of the Administrative Headquarters of Soto Zen Buddhism (Sotoshu Shumucho) to translate and make available English translations of the major texts of Soto liturgy, ritual, and doctrine. As a Soto Zen practitioner here in America, I am very interested in the fruits of this effort. Check back often as each work will be made available as it is finished.
• Zen Again - Bumped into this excellent website while doing a google search. I really like some of the Zen Japanese peices they have to offer here. Nice website design.
• Soto Zen Temples and Centers - This list is maintained by Sotoshu Shumucho, the Soto Zen headquarters in Japan.
• Vallejo Soto Zen Buddhist Meditation Center - Wow. I like the design of this web site. It's a small web site with not much content but since the Zendo is in the Soto tradition of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, I wanted to "collect" it here.
• Sonoma Mountain Zen Center - A Zen Center in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. Jakusho Kwong-roshi is a successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. He has been teaching Zen in the United States and Europe for more than thirty years. He is the founder and abbot of the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center outside of Santa Rosa, California. In 1995 he was given the title of Dendo Kyoshi, Zen Teacher, by the Soto School in Japan. He is one of nine Western Zen teachers to receive this acknowledgment. "Zen," he says, "is the aliveness we bring to each moment."
• Berkeley Zen Center - This center was established by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. They have a few good lectures by Suzuki Roshi here that are some of my favorites.
• 180 Answers About Zen from Master Deshimaru - I just found this page again after about a year. These questions and answers from Master Taisen Deshimaru were and still are very helpfule to my Soto Zen practice. This page and the wisdom on it was one of the reasons I chose Soto Zen.
• Still Mind Zendo - A Soto Zen center in NYC. Sensei Janet Jiryu Abels. Would like to visit sometime.
• Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc - Good article on the whole event and why he did it and why it was not considered a suicide under the buddhist precepts. There are a couple of pictures as well so viewer beware.
• Many Paths - A lot of good stuff here for all Spiritual walks of life.
• Elberon Zen Circle - Zen Practice in the tradition of the Soto school in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen Center.
• No Zendo - Zen, Practice, Zazen: No Zendo. Many people, far from Zen Centers, are interested in practicing on their own or in small groups. Many are asking the same questions: Can one practice zazen without a master or a zendo? How do I do it? What do I need to know? Can one start a small group to practice? Is there any advice for someone like me? FIND YOUR ANSWERS HERE!!
• Zen Center of Los Angeles - A Soto Zen center in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi. There are some real good Dharma talks here as well as information of starting a sitting practice. I like this site quite a bit!
• Maximum Bliss - Zen Buddhism - This is a nicely done Zen web site. The teachings and articles seem to be coming from the Soto school although it's not explicitly stated anywhere. Nice quotes section as well as Zen story section.
• Sounds True - A wonderful online resource where you can find numerous audio, video and music for the inner life. You'll also find interviews with some of the authors.
• Buddha Dhamma teaching by Ajahn Chah - Wow. I really like this monk's teaching. He's not a Soto Zen monk, or even a Zen monk for that matter. But still his words are the Truth. He expresses Buddhist ideas and concepts in a slightly different (but very effective) way. When I read his teachings on the Eight Fold Path and the Precepts, even though I already know the essence of Buddha's message already, I feel the teaching sinking in deeper when I read Ajahn Chah's words.
  
• Portland Buddhist Priory - A Soto Zen temple associated with the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC).
  
• Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey - A Soto Zen Monastery and Retreat Centre associated with the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC).
  
• The Eugene Zendo - The Eugene Zendo is a Soto Zen Buddhist Temple located in Eugene, Oregon. I found this zen center after reading this quote by Ejo McMullen that really resonated deeply within me. They have a real nice links page too.
  
• Interlude - Interlude: An Internet Retreat. With the thought of the day and Meditation of the week. I've been visiting this web site at least once a week since 1996 and have always found something to support my spiritual practice.
  
• Clouds in Water Zen Center - Clouds in Water Zen Center is in the lineage of Dainin Katagiri-roshi, a Soto Zen monk who came to this country in the early 1960's, worked with Shunryu Suzuki-roshi for ten years at Zen Center in San Francisco, and came to Minnesota in 1972.
  
• Shinzen Young The Science of Meditation in Action - This is a vipassana meditation website. Even though that's not what I am practicing, there are several articles there that talk about samadhi that I have found very helpful in my Soto Zen practice of "just sitting".
  
• Sotozen-Net - Official homepage of the Soto school of Zen.
  
• SAN FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER - A Soto Zen center founded by Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
  
• Crooked Cucumber - Suzuki Roshi Bio & Archive. Check out "The Way of Zen" and other texts here.
  
• Zen Center of Chapel Hill
  
• The Edmonton Buddhist Priory - Associated with the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives
  
• Shasta Abbey Buddhist Supplies: Mail Order On-Line Catalog