Zen Teaching

After the initial introduction, the weekly Dharma Talks provide the basis of Zen teaching and encouragement. All other teaching is individual. Daisan or the face-to-face teaching that is a hallmark of Zen practice, is a private meeting with either of our two teachers about your practice. It is available to all during weekend retreats when our teachers are in residence in Pittsburgh. In addition, it is available by phone, on a monthly basis (phone daisan), to PBZ members who are already Zen practitioners and who have made a commitment to practice with Plum Blossom Zendo, and to newcomers to Zen who have received a certain amount of basic teaching from PBZ’s two Practice Leaders.