Greater Boston Zen Center

Boston Zen Meditation The Greater Boston Zen Center, located in Cambridge, offers an extensive schedule of Zen Buddhist meditation practice and periodic Zen meditation retreats. The Center also offers meditation classes. The Greater Boston Zen Center is an affiliate of Boundless Way Zen. We offer one and two day meditation retreats at our location in Cambridge, and multi-day residential meditation retreats at the Boundless Way Zen temple in Worcester, MA. Classes in various topics in Zen and Buddhism are also offered. In addition to our main center in Cambridge, near the Somerville line, we also have affiliated local Zen meditation groups in Newton, North Weymouth, Mass General Hospital, UMass-Boston, and Newtonville . Boundless Way Zen also has Zen meditation groups in Worcester, MA and Providence, RI. The Greater Boston Zen Center, a Boundless Way Zen affiliate located at 288 Norfolk Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a welcoming community of Dharma practitioners. Our lineage roots are in the Japanese Soto tradition through Jiyu Kennett Roshi, the Soto reform Harada-Yasutani koan curriculum through John Tarrant Roshi, and the Korean Linji tradition. Boundless Way Zen teachers offer guidance in all forms of Zen meditation including breath practices, koan introspection, and the subtle art of shikantaza, or just sitting. The Greater Boston Zen Center offers introductory orientation classes by appointment, a weekly zazen (Zen meditation) schedule of morning and evening sits, as well as a Precepts study group, a Dogen study group, and opportunities for Dharma dialogue discussion groups. We offer all-day sits (zazenkai) approximately once a month, and a commuter meditation retreat consisting of two all-day sits in a row once a year. We all offer a full schedule of weekly programs, including Zen meditation, Zen liturgy, and meditation instruction. The Greater Boston Zen Center is under the spiritual directorship of Sensei Josh Bartok.