Practitioner Program
After attending an Introductory Workshop or a Zen Retreat Day, the next step is the Practitioner Program.
- The Practitioner Program at ZCOC provides for 8 programs per month of seated meditation, talks, readings and discussions, individual instruction, and socials. In 2025 ZCOC will offer monthly talks and discussions on specific topics such as Engaged Buddhism and Awareness Practice and the Precepts.
- Programs for practitioners are on Sunday and Tuesday evenings every week.
- The Center also offers special programs, such as formal tea ceremony, Summer Book Study, and a Zen Fiction Book Club,
- ZCOC provides regular opportunities for intensive practice: Zazenkai (one day retreats) and Sesshin (longer retreats).
- You will receive a monthly e-newsletter with detailed schedule (calendar grid) of programs every month.
- Those who practice at the Center may come to all or as many of the programs as they wish. In order to develop a Zen practice and to build community, we recommend that practitioners attend at least twice a month. We ask you to read the monthly e-newsletter to stay up to date.
- Fees paid by those who practice at the Center are the primary means of financial support for ZCOC and are fully tax deductible. Fees are $70.00 per month.
- You will receive a password for the practitioner website.
- Rather than using a membership model, we consider participants to be practitioners who register for a subscription at Pay Pal, pay month to month, and may easily cancel their subscription when they wish.
