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Modesto Valley Heartland Zen

Address: Unity Church Modesto CA 95356
Tradition: Mahayana, Soto Zen
Affiliation: Berkeley Zen Center, San Francisco Zen Center
Phone: (209) 535-6750
E-mail: modesto@emptynestzendo.org
Website: http://www.emptynestzendo.org
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Contact: Stan
Teacher: Grace Schireson
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The Valley Heartland Zen Group is based in Modesto, about 100 miles southeast of San Francisco, in the Central Valley of California. The group serves residents from the wider Modesto community, including Merced, Stockton, Turlock, and Los Banos. The group meets weekly on Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Church of the Brethren, 2301 Woodland Ave in Modesto. The evening session includes two 30 minute periods of zazen (sitting meditation), a brief period of walking meditation, a Zen talk, and tea. In addition, the Valley Heartland Zen Group regularly holds half-day and one-day meditation retreats.

Mountain Shadow Zendo

Address: at Redlands Aikikai, 721 S. Nevada St., #306 Redlands CA 92373
Tradition: Mahayana, Soto Zen (Maezumi Roshi)
Affiliation: Hazy Moon Zen Center, Los Angeles
Phone: 909-862-3174
E-mail: info@mountainshadowzendo.org
Website: http://www.mountainshadowzendo.org/
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Main Contact: Rev. Shelley Kuge Pope Email (Phone: 909-862-3174)
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Weekly Zen chanting service and Zazen meditation, every Sunday morning.

Mountain Source Sangha

Address: Saint James Episcopal Church 4620 California Street San Francisco CA 94118
Tradition: Mahayana, Soto Zen
Affiliation: San Francisco Zen Center
Phone: 415.302.5448
E-mail: vinylpuma@gmail.com
Website: http://www.mtsource.org
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President: Dan Gudgel Email (Phone: 415.302.5448)
Spiritual Director: Shinko Rick Slone Email
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Everyone is welcome. We join for sitting (zazen), followed by chanting and Dharma talk & discussion.

When: Wednesday Evenings, 7:30-9 p.m. (Come at 7:15 p.m. for meditation instruction.)

Where: Saint James\\\' Episcopal Church, 4620 California Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues, San Francisco. Enter the courtyard through the gate; proceed to the Parish Hall on the lower level of the church building. Go down the stairs.

Learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inward. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will manifest.

Mountain Source Sangha

Address: St. Aidans Episcopal Church 30 Brighton Ave Bolinas CA 94924
Tradition: Mahayana, Soto Zen
Affiliation: San Francisco Zen Center
Phone: 415.302.5448
E-mail: vinylpuma@gmail.com
Website: http://www.mtsource.org
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President: Dan Gudgel Email (Phone: 415.302.5448)
Spiritual Director: Shinko Rick Slone Email
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Monthly half-day sittings.
Everyone is welcome. The morning retreat includes two periods of sitting meditation, walking meditation, a Dharma talk, discussion, and chanting.

When: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on the first Saturday of the month.

Mountain Source Sangha

Address: 1123 Court Street San Rafael CA 94901
Tradition: Mahayana, Soto Zen
Affiliation: San Francisco Zen Center
Phone: 415.302.5448
E-mail: vinylpuma@gmail.com
Website: http://www.mtsource.org
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President: Dan Gudgel Email (Phone: 415.302.5448)
Spiritual Director: Shinko Rick Slone Email
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Everyone is welcome. We join for sitting (zazen), followed by chanting and Dharma talk & discussion.

When: Thursday Mornings, 7-8:30 a.m (Come ten minutes early for meditation instruction.)

Where: Saint Pauls Episcopal Church, 1123 Court Street between 5th & Mission, downtown San Rafael, near Hwy. 101. Enter the parish office main door to the right of the church building, upstairs and to the end of the hall.

Even if only one person sits for a short time, because this zazen is one with all existence and completely permeates all time, it performs everlasting Buddha guidance.

Nichiren Buddhist Sangha of the Antelope Valley

Address: 44845 Cedar Ave Lancaster CA 93534
Tradition: Mahayana, Nichiren Shu
Affiliation: Nichiren Order of North America; Nichiren Shu
Phone: 661-947-1753
Fax: n/a
E-mail: micheledc@Qnet.com
Website: http://www.avnbs.org/
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Main Contact: Michele Chavez Email (Phone: 661-947-1753)
Teacher: Rev. Ryuei Michael McCormick
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Venue: AV Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at the above address.

Weekly services on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 pm

Chanting Odaimoku, sutra recitation in shindoku and English, study.

Nyingma Institute

Address: 1815 Highland Place Berkeley CA 94709
Tradition: Vajrayana
Affiliation: Tarthang Tulku
Phone: 510-809-1000
E-mail: nyingma-institute@nyingma.org
Website: http://www.nyingmainstitute.com
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Main Contact: reception desk (Phone: 510-809-1000)
Teacher: Sylvia Gretchen
Spiritual Director: Tarthang Tulku
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With an emphasis on joyful engagement in life, the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California has been bringing the riches of the Tibetan tradition to the Western world since 1972.

We offer training in meditation, Buddhist studies, and Tibetan language in ways that blend cognitive and experiential learning. Tibetan Yoga; Nyingma Psychology; and the Time, Space, and Knowledge vision were all developed here by our founder Tarthang Tulku. These unique fields of study provide effective ways to counteract tension, clear the mind, and open body and mind to new dimensions of feeling.

We offer ongoing weekend and extended retreats, classes, workshops, certificate programs, resident and non-resident volunteer programs.

Ocean Psychology

Tradition: Theravada, Ajahn Amaro, Ajahn Chah
Affiliation: Noah & Stephen Levine
Phone: (831) 332-4659
E-mail: info@oceanpsychology.com
Website: http://www.oceanpsychology.com/
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Vipassana influenced counseling emphasizing in Eco and Transpersonal psychology. I offer free counseling on death and dying issues. I became interested in helping others when I overcame a alcohol addiction with the help of counseling, spiritual meditation and 12-step work. My long-time friend Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx and Against the Stream, shaped my first experiences in meditation and counseling. His father, Stephen Levine, was a great meditation teacher and an inspiration to both of us. Stephen used Vipassana meditation with healing techniques that include all faiths. It was through his books that I got involved in hospice work, grief counseling and death and dying.

Open Door Sangha

Address: Santa Barbara CA 93101
Tradition: Theravada
Affiliation: In the tradition of Spirit Rock, IMC, IMS
E-mail: opendoormeditation@gmail.com
Website: http://insightmeditationsb.org
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We are a peer-led group offering three weekly sitting groups (one including a dharma talk by a senior student), classes and daylongs led by senior students, and weekend non-residential retreats taught by visiting teachers from several streams of Buddhism, but mostly in the Theravadan/Insight tradition.

Details of our current schedule can be found on our website and on our Facebook page, Open Door Sangha of Santa Barbara.

Pacific Zen Institute

Address: 825 Sonoma Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Santa Rosa CA 95404
Tradition: Mahayana, Koan Zen
Phone: 707-544-0540.
E-mail: santarosazen@gmail.com
Website: http://pacificzen.org/
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Teacher: David Weinstein Roshi Email
Main Contact: Santa Rosa Center director Email
Teacher: John Tarrant
Spiritual Director: John Tarrant Email
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Pacific Zen Institute was founded by John Tarrant, Roshi 25 years ago as a way to teach that meditation and koans can have a real and direct impact on your life in all circumstances. Today there are a number of PZI centers in the US and Canada. Santa Rosa is the location of the original center. For more information about Pacific Zen Institute, retreats and programs, go to pacificzen.org .

Our PZI mission is to create a culture for transforming the mind through meditation, koans, conversation and the arts. We believe many impossible things, but the most impossible thing of all, that enlightenment is right here, is also the most true. And it’s not so hard to have an experience of enlightenment. The trick is to notice it, and to embody the transformation, to live in the world that is transformed.

Pine Mountain Buddhist Temple

Address: 941 Lockwood Valley Road Maricopa CA 93252
Tradition: Mahayana, Soto Zen
Affiliation: Order of Buddhist Contemplatives
Phone: 254-241-6102
Fax: 206-984-0397
E-mail: pinemtnbuddhisttempl@starband.net
Website: http://www.pinemtnbuddhisttemple.org
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Spiritual Director: Rev. Master Houn Phoebe
Teacher: Rev. Leon Kackman
Main Contact: Rev. Houn Phoebe
Teacher: Rev. Master Seikai Luebke
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On 45 acres in rural Ventura County.

Training Center with three full time Buddhist monks.

Ratna Ling Retreat Center

Address: 35755 Hauser Bridge Road Cazadero CA 95421
Tradition: Vajrayana
Phone: (510) 809-4987
E-mail: publicrelations@ratnaling.org
Website: http://www.ratnaling.org
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Program Director: Tara Ristau Email (Phone: (510) 809-4995)
Main Contact: Chelsea Rappel Email (Phone: (510) 809-4987)
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Ratna Ling Retreat Center

Experience the Beauty of Being

Ratna Ling is a thriving center for healing and discovery bringing forth the power and value of spiritual practice in forms which are wholesome, accessible and effective.

Ratna Ling hosts a community of teachers, students, resident volunteers, and friends of the Nyingma organization that are committed to practicing spirituality in everyday life. Retreat stays at Ratna Ling offer our guests a window into a world where intentional and spiritual community living forms the basis of daily existence. The essential role of Ratna Ling’s community is highlighted by the fact that we are a non-profit operation, run solely by volunteer residents.

Offering world-class facilities and private lodging, freshly prepared, nourishing vegetarian meals and instructional courses in Tibetan Yoga (Kum Nye), Dharma studies, Skillful Means, Meditation and Tibetan Language studies, Ratna Ling invites people of a wide range of backgrounds and walks of life to experience our traditions. Impeccable Conference Center space and services available. Click any of the following links to view our Retreat Calendar, learn about taking a Personal Retreat or take a video tour.

www.ratnaling.org

Ratna Ling is the home for Ratna Ling Retreat Center; Yeshe De Tibetan Book Project and Dharma Publishing

Rigpa - Los Angeles

Address: Los Angeles CA
Tradition: Vajrayana, Tibetan, Nyingma (Rigpa)
Phone: (866) 200-5876
E-mail: info@rigpa.org
Website: http://www.rigpaus.org/
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Spiritual Director: Sogyal Rinpoche
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