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Zen Meditation & Mindfulness Practice

Welcome

Pathway Zen hosts weekly meditation and mindfulness practice groups in Brisbane. Our purpose is to offer a structured program that integrates and personalises Zen, as a practice-path in daily life.

Our purpose...

The goal of Pathway Zen is to guide anyone who is serious about the discovery of their true-nature and the cultivation of Zen, as a practice-path in their life. This is facilitated through a systematic program that includes introduction to Zen courses, weekly sittings, monthly daylongs, residential retreats and koan introspection. All activities are grounded in both Soto and Rinzai Zen practices within a lay householder lineage.

As a secular and non-profit organisation, everyone is welcome irrespective of their tradition, religious affiliation or none. Please feel free to come along to one of our regular events, in Spring Hill or feel free to participate via Zoom online. Our Samford venue is still closed due to Covid restrictions. Newcomers are encouraged to participate in an introduction to Zen session, which is held concurrently on Thursday evenings in Spring Hill.   A comprehensive introduction to Zen course is also offered online on an ongoing basis. 

Pathway Zen is guided by Arno Hess, an Australian and Brisbane based Dharma and Zen Buddhist teacher, certified both in Australia and through the Sanbozen lineage in Kamakura Japan. 

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Community engagement:

Prison project

Pathway Zen is a founding member of Inside Mindfulness Inc., which facilitates weekly mindfulness based rehabilitation programs in Queensland correctional centres. Volunteer facilitators are always welcome to participate. For more information please contact Arno Hess.

Carbon Footprint

Pathway Zen is a carbon neutral organisation. We are committed to a continued strategy to maintain carbon neutrality through identifying, reducing and offsetting our carbon emissions.

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Upcoming Events and News:

Thursday meditation (Zazen) resumes in Spring Hill on the 15th April.  Also streamed via Zoom.

Newcomers to Zen will be given an introduction to Zen on request. Please arrive by 6:45pm.  7:00pm  to 8:30 pm - Zazen

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Foundations of Zen Buddhism: 5-week online introductory course.

Next course Wednesdays: 19 May to 16 June: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.

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Zenkai (daylong retreat) Spring Hill

16.05.2021

A silent daylong retreat will again be held in our Spring Hill venue as well as via Zoom. Please arrive at 9:15 for a 9:30 am start. All welcome.

Newcomers will be given instructions on arrival.

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Dharma talk.

29.04.2021

Our regular monthly dharma talk will be presented during the evening (8:00 PM) in lieu of the third meditation period, followed by Q&A. All welcome. This talk is also available to Zoom participants. To log-in, please click on the Thursday evening Zoom link:

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Residential 7-day Sesshin

17.10.2021 to 24.10.2021

Registration is now open for our residential meditation retreat in Toowoomba.

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What is Zen?

If you are searching to join a focused and at the same time a fun group of Zen practitioners, you have found the right place. We invite you to join us on our quest to live life as fully and appreciably as we can.

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A brief historical survey of the origins of koans and their applications.

The development of koans in Chan Buddhism and their adoption in Japan and Western modernity.   A historical survey of koan development

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Zen and the threefold training principles of the Eightfold Path

The relationship between the Zen process of awakening, as taught and practiced in the Sanbō-Zen lineage, and the threefold training principles of the Eightfold Path: a review of contemporary practices and teaching materials. A master thesis presented by Arno Hess to the Faculty of Applied Buddhist Studies at the Nan Tien Institute in Wollongong NSW […]

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Sanbo Zen lineage and history

Sanbō Zen lineage and history, compiled by Henry Shukman and Joan Rieck

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Brisbane based Pathway Zen offers an authentic Zen approach to meditation and mindfulness practice that integrates a path of self-discovery through our everyday activities.

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