Auckland Zen Centre

Zen practice and training in Auckland, New Zealand. The Auckland Zen Centre is an urban Buddhist community with a resident teacher, Ven. Amala Wrightson, Sensei. The Centre offers regular sittings, talks, zen meditation workshops, retreats (sesshin) and opportunities to engage in compassionate action. Zen training Training is a chance to deepen your practice under the guidance of a teacher. At large centres (such as the Rochester Zen Centre) it is possible to undertake fulltime residential training. Here at the Auckland Zen Centre we are not currently in a position to offer residential training, but day training combined with home practice can still create the opportunity to train in Zen intensely and wholeheartedly through disciplined daily practice. Philip Kapleau Founding Teacher Roshi Philip Kapleau, founder of the Rochester Zen Center, New York, was the author of numerous books on Zen, including the classic The Three Pillars of Zen, To Cherish All Life, The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical Guide, Awakening to Zen. Sensei Amala Wrightson Amala-sensei is the teacher and Spiritual Director of the Auckland Zen Centre. Along with her husband, Richard von Sturmer, Amala-sensei founded the Auckland Zen Centre in 2004. You can read more about Amala-sensei and the Rochester lineage here.