window.document.getElementById(’post-939′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’; What is Zen?
The word “zen” has been used so extensively to market goods and services, that its true meaning and relevance for our time has been often ignored.  Throughout the ages, seekers have wrestled with such questions as “Who am I?” and “What is the meaning of life?”  Throughout its 2500 year […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-4′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Plum Blossom Zendo
A Pittsburgh Zen Meditation Center
5228 Beeler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412.687.7128
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 […]

All worlds are my world and all sentient beings–people, things, situations–are my children.
THE BUDDHA

Like the sky, you lean on nothing.
ZEN SAYING

Like the sky, you lean on nothing.
ZEN SAYING

Zazen is more than just meditation.  It is not mere contemplation or introspection.  It is not quieting the mind or focusing the mind.  Zazen is sitting Zen–one aspect of Zen.  There is also walking Zen, working Zen, laughing Zen, and crying Zen.
JOHN DAIDO LOORI

One day, Suzuki Roshi turned his back to his students, pulled his robes up over his knees, leaned back, stuck his head between his legs, and grinned at his surprised audience.  Everyone laughed at what he was doing.  But when Suzuki Roshi said, “This is a demonstration of your English word understand,” the students could […]

We cannot put off living until we are ready.  The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, “here and now” without any possible postponement.  Life is fired at us point blank.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Immediately after you stand on the peak of a mountain you step forward and begin to climb a higher mountain which is down below.
KOBUN CHINO

Reality can be found only in understanding what is; and to understand what is, there must be freedom, freedom from the fear of what is.
KRISHNAMURTI