Plum Blossom Zendo
A Pittsburgh Zen Meditation Center
5228 Beeler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412.833.5832

Plum Blossom Zendo, a Zen meditation center in Pittsburgh formed in 2005, is in the Soto-Rinzai lineage of Zen Master Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga.  Our founder and resident teacher, Sensei Janet Jiryu Abels, is dharma successor to Roshi Robert Jinsen Kennedy in this Zen lineage as is Sensei Gregory Hosho Abels, the other resident Zen teacher at Still Mind Zendo in New York.  Plum Blossom Zendo is an affiliate of Still Mind Zendo.  Local experienced and new Zen practitioners are welcome, as are visitors to Pittsburgh who practice Zen.

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When the old plum tree suddenly opens,

the world of blossoming flowers arises.

At the moment when the world of blossoming flowers arises,

spring arrives.

- Dogen, Japenese Soto Zen Master

The world is fleeting; all things pass away.  Or is it that we pass and they stay?

LUCIAN

You owe it to everyone (including yourself) to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

GEORGES BERNANOS

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the intelligence at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future… cease to be perceived as opposites.

ANDRE BRETON

We are more curious about the meaing of dreams than about things we see when awake.

DIOGENES

The water is clear right to the bottom,

A fish goes lazily along.

The sky is vast without horizon.

HUNG-CHIH

I am free when I am within myself.

GEORG WILHELMl FRIEDRICH HEGEL

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four:  If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on.  Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.

ZEN SAYING

Zen is the vehicle of reality.

JIM HARRISON

SONG OF THE TREES

The wind

Only

I am afraid of.

CHIPPEWA SONG