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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, daily online meditation (zazen), weekly in-person practice opportunities, 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 in a separate room to our regular practice group on Thursday evenings in Spring Hill.   A comprehensive introduction to Zen course is also offered in-person or online on an ongoing basis. Recording can be viewed here

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:

Inside Mindfulness - 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:

Every evening - Moonlight Zazen (except public holidays)

Please feel free to join our daily online evening sitting group for Moonlight Zazen. 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM

This universal Zoom link also joins the Thursday in-person Spring Hill event and our Zenkais (daylong retreats).

To join click here

Thursday meditation (Zazen) via Zoom and in Spring Hill.

Newcomers to Zen will be given an introduction to Zen on arrival. Please arrive by 6:55pm.  7:00pm to 8:30 pm - Zazen

Thursday program & Zoom link: View more

Foundations of Zen Buddhism: 5-week  introductory course.

Recorded lectures can be viewed here

Alternatively, lectures are given on a case by case basis on Thursday evenings and during our monthly daylong retreats in Spring Hill.

The next online course will be held in the last quarter of the year.

Zenkai (daylong retreat) Spring Hill

22.05. 2022 - 19.06.2022 - 17.7.2022 - 21.8.2022

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

Newcomers will be given instructions on arrival.

Online retreat & Zoom link. View more

Dharma talks.

26.5.2022 - 30.6.2022 - 28.7.2022 - 25.8.2022

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  Sesshin retreats 2022

16.10.2022 to 23.10.2022 (7-day sesshin)

Registrations is now open for our 7-day residential meditation retreats in  Toowoomba.

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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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