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IMPORTANT NOTE: Computers are great...when they work! We recently upgraded a program and lost the entire email mailing list for the Cleveland Zazen Group. If you have regularly received notices and announcements from Susan Rakow and would like to continue to receive them in the future, please send your name and email address to Susan at susanrakow@earthlink.net. Thanks!

The Cleveland Zazen Group, an affiliate of the Rochester Zen Center, has been meeting together for over 30 years. Presently, we  in Cleveland Heights. Regular sittings (meditation) are every Tuesday evening from 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Two Sunday mornings a month we meet at 9 a.m. for zazen (sitting meditation) followed by a recorded teisho (sermon or dharma talk) by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede of the Rochester Zen Center. From 11 to noon, we have brunch together.

Periodically, there are all-day sittings and Introductory Workshops. Introduction to Zen meditation practice can be arranged for interested individuals.

There are no accidents! If you have come to this website, you have questions about your life, about pain and suffering, about meaning, peace, or your own personhood. You may have done some reading on Zen, on Buddhism, or on meditation. But, as the old masters have said “Painted cakes do not satisfy hunger.”

For more information or to get on our e-mail list, please contact Susan or Larry Rakow at 216-932-3084 or susanrakow@earthlink.net.

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