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New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care

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Our vision: A more awakened and wholehearted existence for all.
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12/19/2025

The Last Time by Marie Howe, read by Chodo Sensei

12/18/2025

We’re hiring! The New York Zen Center is seeking a Fellowship Enrollment Coordinator to support our Contemplative Medicine Fellowship.

This part-time role guides physicians and advanced practice providers through our life-changing Fellowship enrollment process.

We’re looking for someone with:
✅ 2+ yrs in enrollment, admissions, or student recruitment
✅ CRM experience (GoHighLevel/Salesforce a plus)
✅ Strong communication skills & interest in contemplative care

Grow with us while helping transform the culture of medicine!

To apply, visit the link in bio.

12/17/2025

New Podcast 🎧 Skillful Means in a Comfort Obsessed World

What if your practice wasn’t about self-improvement but about opening the door of Buddha wisdom for all beings?

Drawing on Chapter Two of the Lotus Sutra, Koshin Sensei explores skillful means, our many capacities, and the confusion that comes from clinging to comfort or trying to please everyone.

Listen now via the link in bio or on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

12/08/2025

Gratitude is a place of practice. Twenty five sangha members offered deep gratitude to Shakyamuni Buddha in honoring his awakening and deciding to feel his fear and continue on like an immovable stone. We are so grateful to Shakyamuni Buddha and Dogen Zenji. Together we engaged intensive practice commemorating the awakening of Shakyamuni Buddha (Jodo-e, or realization of the way)! The schedule consisted of 15 periods of zazen, kinhin, and dokusan followed by two ceremonies: Jodo-e Kenshuku (Porridge Offering Ceremony after Rohatsu) and Rohatsu Shosan (Dharma Combat with the Guiding Teacher: Convocation Upon Completion of Rohatsu). All are always welcome!

12/05/2025

New Podcast 🎧 Sitting Zazen with All Beings

In his newest dharma talk, Koshin Sensei reflects on becoming an “assistant gardener”, sitting zazen with all beings, especially in times of fear or uncertainty. Drawing on the Lotus Sutra and tender stories from his own life, he offers gentle guidance on soft-belly awareness, releasing our narratives, and meeting each moment with openness.

Listen now via the link in bio or on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

12/03/2025

Just as our current cohort gathered for their first in-person retreat at the Garrison Institute, we received exciting news: our Fellowship’s impact has been peer-reviewed and published in EXPLORE.

This study highlights how contemplative practice, community, and values alignment can help clinicians navigate the pressures of medicine—not just survive, but reclaim their purpose and agency.

Fellows report stronger peer connection, enhanced leadership readiness, and meaningful personal and professional growth. This is about more than reducing burnout—it’s about giving clinicians the tools to thrive and lead change in healthcare.

📅 Interested in learning more? Join our online Fellowship Info Session on December 10th with Guiding Teachers and alumni.

12/02/2025

Check the link below for all of our offerings happening now through the end of the year—half-day retreats to reset, our first Fellowship Info Session, and a meaningful New Year’s Eve sit to close 2025 with intention.

Whether you’re just stepping into Zen practice or continuing a lifelong journey, there’s a space waiting for you.

https://www.zencare.org/schedule

12/01/2025

New Podcast 🎧 Finding Refuge When Life Unravels

Chodo Sensei offers a tender reflection on the Three Refuges, Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, inviting us to meet impermanence, grief, and compassion with open hearts.

Through stories of accompanying his dear friend Rande in her final days and reflections on awakening amid uncertainty, he shows that refuge is found not in escape, but in presence.

This talk is an invitation to return, again and again, to what is real: the Buddha within, the Dharma in every moment, and the Sangha that holds us when life shifts.

Listen now via the link in bio or on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

11/24/2025

Seperation by W.S Merwin, read by Chodo Sensei

11/04/2025

“People get stuck a lot because they’re afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can’t function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn’t wait.” We remember you Roshi Bernie Tetsugen Glassman on this the 7th year of your passing.

11/03/2025

New Podcast 🎧 Failure, Zombies & the Grasping Mind

What if failure isn’t weakness, but the heart of practice?

Koshin Sensei reflects on the endlessness of practice, the pull of validation, and the freedom of letting go.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or our site: https://www.zencare.org/posts/failure-zombies-grasping

Image: Marcel Duchamp, 1912

10/31/2025

“For the Living” by Rosemerry Trommer, read by Chodo Sensei.

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Monday	9am - 7:15pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 7:30pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 12pm

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http://www.zencare.org/

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