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Pine Wind Zen Center was established in 2000 and is a non-residential Zen-Buddhist community, a 501c-3 non-profit organization, located in Shamong NJ, in the Pinelands of Southern New Jersey.
As a Zen center, we offer a context for meditation training and practice, education in Zen-Buddhism, offering a diversity of courses and training focused on learning how to live in our world responsibly, with kindness, benevolence, wisdom, and all victorious mastery.
Our vision focuses on the integration of practice and community, bringing together wisdom and compassion. Our mission is to provide an environment or context for understanding, spiritual practice, education in Zen-Buddhism, and engagement in the transformation of global consciousness and personal responsibility for the sustainability of the natural world.
Pine Wind Zen Center also offers a Formal Training Program for Home Practitioners in Zen-meditation and the principals of mindfulness and compassionate living, Jukai (lay-ordination), and Ordination (priesthood).
Mission
"Pine Wind Zen Community's (The Zen Society) mission is to support a sincere and dedicated practice community, to serve others by providing training, education in Zen-Buddhism, and programs designed for global and personal transformation. Fostering the integration of Zen-Buddhist, Western Esoteric traditions, and Faith-based teachings on compassion and loving-kindness, benevolence, personal and global responsibility."
It endeavors to fulfill the vision of the Five Buddha Family Mandala, by understanding the integration of all of its functions.
Paradigm
Pine Wind Zen Community realizes its mission by being a refuge to the many who come through its temple doors and offering mature spiritual programs – traditional, contemporary, and experimental – that meet the needs of people, society, and the environment.
We do this by:
Welcoming, in the spirit of friendship and compassion, a community of diversity.
Having a membership who supports the center and whom we support.
Having a mature, harmonious, and credentialed faculty of clergy and teachers.
Having a well-organized management structure and management systems.
Offering a unique program for the training of priests, lay-clergy, and successors.
Having a deep and consistent daily meditation and mindfulness practice.
Offering a dynamic practice and formal apprenticeship program in Zen-Buddhism for home practitioners.
Offering daily opportunities to its members as well as its local and extended community, for learning, practice, and growing.
Offering training and support for health care professionals, physicians, clergy, social workers, and the corporate world.
Being a place that supports service to those who are suffering, including our little animal friends and the whole of nature.
Being a place of refuge for our friends that live in the natural world.
Fostering inter-religious dialog, understanding, and participation.
Having a beautiful physical center that is well taken care of and open to the public year-round.
Developing a local network of affiliates and teachers.
"Community is the spirit, the guiding light, whereby people come together to fulfill a purpose, to help others fulfill their purpose, and to take care of one another."
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"I am your friend and my love for you goes deep.
There is nothing I can give you which you have not
got, but there is much, very much, that, while I
cannot give it, you can take…"
Pine Wind Zen Center
Jizo-an Monastery
863 McKendimen Rd.
Shamong, NJ 08088
609.268.9151
