Plum Blossom Zendo
A Pittsburgh Zen Meditation Center
5228 Beeler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412.687.7128

Plum Blossom Zendo, a Zen meditation center in Pittsburgh formed in 2005, is in the Soto-Rinzai lineage of Zen Master Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga.  Our founder and resident teacher, Sensei Janet Jiryu Abels, is dharma successor to Roshi Robert Jinsen Kennedy in this Zen lineage as is Sensei Gregory Hosho Abels, the other resident Zen teacher at Still Mind Zendo in New York.  Plum Blossom Zendo is an affiliate of Still Mind Zendo.  Local experienced and new Zen practitioners are welcome, as are visitors to Pittsburgh who practice Zen.

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When the old plum tree suddenly opens,

the world of blossoming flowers arises.

At the moment when the world of blossoming flowers arises,

spring arrives.

- Dogen, Japenese Soto Zen Master

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

This moment contains all moments.

C. S. LEWIS

A monk knows when he is going, “I am going.”
He knows when he is standing, “I am standing.”
He knows when he is sitting, “I am sitting.”
He knows when he is lying down, “I am lying down.”

THE BUDDHA

Being natural lmeans to exist spontaneously without having to take any action…By taking no action is not meant folding one’s arms and closing one’s mouth  If we simply let everything act by itself, it will be contented with its nature and destiny.

KUO-HSIANG

Let not the fruit of action be your motive to action.  Your business is with action alone, not with the fruit of action.

THE BHAGAVAD GITA

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing.

JOHN CAGE

Better to see the face than to hear the name.

ZEN SAYING

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

MURIEL RUKEYSER

No matter what road I travel, I’m going home.

SHINSO