The Melbourne Zen Group is based in Brunswick East, Melbourne, Australia. Our weekly meditation meetings are open to both members and non-members.
Autumn Zazenkai with Susan Murphy Roshi
“What is the meaning of this moment?”
15-17 May 2026
CERES, Brunswick East
Fri – 6:50pm to 9pm
Sat – 8:20am to 5pm
Sun – 7:50am to 1pm
This zazenkai is now fully booked and a waitlist applies – further information.
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Someone came to Great Master Mazu (709-788) asking, “What is the meaning of Buddhism?” Mazu responded, “What is the meaning of this moment?”
Let’s take this as an entry point into Mazu’s ‘Ordinary mind’ – that seeks to flow like the Dao with ease beyond all grasping forms of ‘meaning’ – and explore it in the light of our highly fraught moment in time, with its many cascading challenges to the possibility of calmly being present. And of truly being here, fully at home on this dazzlingly precious and unlikely planet, Earth.
Friday and Saturday will offer zazen, dokusan and teisho, but Sunday morning will involve some writing and experiential exercises to deepen awareness of your own, born Ordinary mind… and how powerfully it can become antidote to the harm of all scattered, disrupted and counterfeit forms of human awareness and intelligence.
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