New Jersey

New Moon Zendo

Address: Ridgewood Unitarian Church; 113 Cottage Place   Ridgewood NJ 07450
Tradition: Mahayana, Zen
Phone: 914-714-8621
E-mail: carlviggiani@gmail.com
Website: http://www.uuridgewood.org
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Teacher: Carl Viggiani  
Main Contact: Carl Viggiani  Email  (Phone: 914-428-8506)
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Mondays 7:30pm zazen includes sitting and walking meditation and some chanting. Dharma talks twice a month. Monthly meeting with sensei available. We welcome beginning meditators.

Newark Center for Meditative Culture

Address:   Newark NJ 07101
Tradition: Non-Sectarian
E-mail: info@newarkmeditation.org
Website: http://www.newarkmeditation.org
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Co-founder/Chair/Teacher: Marcie L. Barth  Email  
Spiritual Advisor/Lead Teacher: Ib’nallah S. Kazi  Email  
Main Contact: Marcie L. Barth  Email  
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Newark Center for Meditative Culture (NCMC) is a diverse urban meditation community serving the Greater Newark Area in New Jersey. From 2012 through 2016 we served as an informal community initiative until we then formed a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 2017. Most of our programs have been held at art galleries and in nature at parks. Our programs are based on secular and spiritual teachings from Buddhist and other wisdom traditions, within the context of the socially engaged, multi-cultural and diverse population of the Greater Newark Area. Our programs comprise of meditation classes, daylong retreats, sitting groups, and workshops. We engage too through Compassionate Activism. We are active in supporting local community events and making presentations in order to educate the community about meditation. NCMC is a volunteer-run organization with a strong commitment to openness and inclusion. We do this in two ways:

Diversity/Expansiveness: Our intention is to offer both general and specific programs for specific groups of people and issues. Thus far we have had focused-programs and retreats related to People of Color (PoC), women, and children. The PoC retreats especially are intended to provide an affinity group for individuals who daily confront the effects of oppression and racism, and who therefore may initially choose to avoid mixed programs.

Inclusiveness: All of our programs are offered as donation-based no-fee to the participant. Instead, we invite all participants to make voluntary gifts to the level of their ability, sometimes with suggested donation amounts. NCMC disperses the donations equitably between teachers and venue providers. We base this system on the practice of dana or generosity, which is inherent to many spiritual traditions. See Giving.

Our Mission
To form a meditation community based on the secular, universal principles and practices of Buddhist-based psychology/philosophy, applied through both traditional and contemporary means, along with ancestral, yogic, Taoist, Sufi, and other wisdom teachings and disciplines. NCMC is intended to be a safe place where like-minded people can gather in order to practice the fundamental meditation methods of tranquility, insight, and loving-kindness (metta), and to become engaged together in conscientious, compassionate, and contemplative activities as a group and in the local community.

Our Vision
To be an inclusive community of practice, study, and social engagement that provides a refuge for all people who seek meditation and spiritual development and a purposeful, conscientious lifestyle.

Our Goal
To develop a center with a dedicated meditation community committed to practicing together and supporting each other and to maintain the culture of this center so that all can feel welcome. We intend for it to take shape both through leader guidance and organic means according to the wants, needs, and conditions of the community. Our founding members are committed to furthering our spiritual growth and leadership capacities through ongoing practice and education in order for the organization to develop fluidly and become self-regulating. By engaging teachers and advisors with deep knowledge and practice in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, other wisdom disciplines, and community immersion, we can ensure that we maintain integrity.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewarkCenterforMeditativeCulture/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCMC_Meditates

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newark.meditative.culture/

Original Zen Mind - Andre Halaw

Address: 291 Witherspoon Street   Princeton NJ 08542
Tradition: Mahayana, Korean Zen in the lineage of Seung Sahn
Affiliation: Five Mountain Zen Order
Phone: 6093758936
E-mail: originalmindzen@gmail.com
Website: http://www.originalmindzen.com
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Main Contact: Rev. Andre Doshim Halaw  
Spiritual Director: Rev. Andre Doshim Halaw  Email  (Phone: 6093758936)
Notes and Events:

Please come join us for meditation, Dharma talks, and Zen services. We meet on Sunday evenings from 7-9 p.m. All are welcome.

Princeton Area Zen Group

Address:   Princeton NJ
Tradition: Mahayana, Japanese Zen, Yasutani-Yamada-Aitken lineage
Phone: (609) 605-3994
E-mail: princetonzen@gmail.com
Website: http://www.princetonzengroup.org/
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Teacher: Bill Boyle  
Main Contact: Scott Moses  Email  (Phone: (609) 605-3994)
Notes and Events:

We sit every Sunday from 7 to 9 pm. Beginners Night is held on the first Sunday of every month. Instruction is from 6:30 to 7 pm, followed by a regular sitting from 7 to 9 pm.

The Princeton Area Zen Group (PAZG) engages in lay meditation practice in the tradition of Yasutani-Yamada-Aitken. Founded in 1991 by teachers Manfred Steger and Perle Besserman, the Princeton Area Zen Group is a community-based, non-residential unaffiliated Zen center designed to introduce anyone with a sincere desire for self-realization to the formal practice of zazen (sitting meditation).

The group is not a religious organization, but a collection of committed, like-minded individuals responsible for maintaining and supporting a place of Zen practice. It emphasizes traditional elements of Zen practice, such as sitting meditation, Dharma talks, private interviews, and retreats, but within a framework of Western culture with an emphasis on democratically discussed and implemented community policies.

Taego Zen Center

Address: 40 East Broad Street   Bogota NJ 07603
Tradition: Mahayana, Taego
Affiliation: Koran Taego Order
Phone: 347-224-4283
E-mail: haejin@taegotemple.com
Website: http://www.taegotemple.com
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Teacher: Hae Jin Sunim  
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Zen Garland of Sussex County

Address: White Oak Center 33 Woodport Road   Sparta NJ 07871
Tradition: Mahayana, Zen, Roshi Monika Genmitsu Kahn, Roshi Paul Genki Kahn, Zen Master Bernie Glassman, Hakuyū Taizan Maezumi
Affiliation: Zen Garland
Phone: 845-547-2004
E-mail: office@zengarland.org
Website: http://www.zengarland.org
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Spiritual Director: Roshi Paul Genki Kahn  (Phone: 845-547-2004)
Teacher: Roshi Monika Genmitsu Kahn  
Main Contact: Chuck Daijo McCann  Email  (Phone: 570-616-9016)
Notes and Events:

Zen Garland offers several practice paths: General Path, Zen Buddhism, Christian Zen, Red Path Zen (Native American), Aikido Zen
Zen Garland of Sussex County meets every Thursday @ 7:00 PM for Zazen along with personal and group instruction from our teacher Roshi Genmitsu.
We also have Zazen and book study on Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM. Sunday morning practice is lead by senior students.

Those new to Zazen are encouraged to take an introduction to zen class before your first regular visit. Introduction classes are held by appointment with a senior student in our Sussex county location. Please email cmccann13@gmail.com to schedule an introduction to zen appointment.

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