window.document.getElementById(’post-4′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;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 […]

Disciple:  “What is Tao?”
Hsiang-yen:  “In the dry woods the dragon is singing.”
ZEN MONDO

The only thing is to see.
AUGUSTE RODIN

You are not allowed to travel at night, but you must arrive before daybreak.
ZEN KOAN

Another monk asked the classic question:  “What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the west?” 
      Kuei-shan answered:  “A fine large lantern.”

If you want to extend the light of the dharma, let it first illumine your own heart.
RENGETSU

On whose door does the moonlight not shine?
ZEN SAYING

Play is the exultation of the possible.
MARTIN BUBER

Sin and blessing are all empty.  The snake swallows the frog.  The toad sucks up the worms.  The hawk eats the sparrows.  The pheasant eats the snake.  The cat catches the rat.  The big fish devours the smaller one.  And everything is all right.  The monk who offended against the commandments does not fall into […]

The firmest fayth is found in the fewest woordes.
EDWARD DYER