Blue Heron Zen Community

Blue Heron Zen Community

Regular Sunday in person practice at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm.
Online group practice Monday to Friday at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm.
Location Creator	Richard_Villiers
Archetype	Zen Meditation Center
IC Owner	Hiroshi Usui
Metroplex	Seattle
Neighborhood	Licton Springs

Description

The Blue Heron Zen Community is tucked away in a quiet area of Licton Springs. It is one of the smaller Buddhist centers in Seattle. Zen is one of the smaller branches of Buddhism and Soto Zen is less popular than Rintai Zen.

Distinctive Features

Residency

The commitment to live at the Blue Heron Zen Center in Seattle is a wonderful opportunity to deepen one’s practice and directly experience the relationship between daily life and our original nature. The regular schedule of practicing, eating, and working together allows us to see our karma appear and reappear. We can see how opinions and habit energies create problems for ourselves and others. When we let go of our opinions and conditions, it becomes possible to live with clarity and harmony. As we learn to cooperate, to see clearly, and to accept people and situations as they are, our minds become strong and wide. Then it becomes possible to act for other people with no trace of self-interest.

IC Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	10303 Densmore Avenue North, Licton Springs, Seattle
3	Zen is a school of Buddhism which emphasises the practice of meditation as the key ingredient to awakening ones inner nature, compassion and wisdom.
6	The Blue Heron Zen Community is a Soto Zen center. Soto focuses more on sitting practice, Shikantaza, sitting in conscious awareness.

Area Knowledge:Seattle Table

Threshold	Result
1	Licton Springs, Seattle
3	Small close knit Buddhist community
5	Hiroshi Usui is rumored to be an ex-yakuza

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