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We train rigorously using the traditional forms of Rinzai Zen, martial arts and fine arts.

The Zen Dojo is a place for deep spiritual training (shugyo in Japanese) for anyone who has a sincere desire to realize their True Self. Prior experience with meditation, martial arts, or fine arts is not necessary to begin training.

• Chozen-ji is unlike any other Zen temple. Zazen meditation, martial and fine arts classes, and residential monastic Zen training in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Zen Dojo Amsterdam is named Gyo Kai, which means Ocean of Practice. The dojo is part of the international Kosen Sangha. These are dojos (places where you practice zen), which are led by the French Zen master Kosen Thibaut. Master Kosen himself was a disciple of Master Deshimaru, who brought Zen from Japan to Europe in 1967.

Our tools are our breath, our posture, our senses.

Zen is not an idea or belief. It is the moment by moment experience of the quality of your breathing, the penetrating effect of gravity on your muscles and bones, and the ways in which your senses create the world around you.

The results are the flesh and bones of compassion, available under all conditions.

The test of our Zen training is not on the meditation cushion but under the extremes that life can bring to any of us. For us, compassion means to take away fear in those around us – any time and any place.

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Chosei Zen (formerly Chozen-ji Betsuin/International Zen Dojo of Wisconsin) was founded in 1982 by Kenneth Setsuzan Kushner Roshi as a branch temple of Chozen-ji. Kushner Roshi is Head Master of the Chozen-ji School of Kyudo and abbot of Daikozen-ji, the Zen temple and dojo in Madison, WI.

In 2006, a rural Zen training center was established in Spring Green, WI by Gordon Hakuun Greene Roshi. While supervising the building of the Spring Green Dojo, Greene Roshi recognized how readily the hard work reinforced the breath and posture necessary for useful meditation, leading to a teaching emphasis on the manual labor of Zen meditation.

Both Kushner Roshi and Greene Roshi trained at Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple located deep in Honolulu’s Kalihi Valley, and received inka shomei from Tenshin Tanouye Rotaishi.

CHOZEN-JI HISTORY

Daihonzan Chozen-ji was established in 1972 by Omori Sogen Rotaishi, a direct Dharma successor of the Tenryu-ji lineage of Rinzai Zen. He was also a successor of Yamaoka Tesshu’s Taishi School of Calligraphy and of the Jikishinkage School of fencing. In 1979, Omori Rotaishi established Daihonzan Chozen-ji as the main temple and headquarters of a new line of Zen with his Dharma successor, Tanouye Tenshin Rotaishi, as the abbot. Tanouye Rotaishi was a martial artist of extraordinary abilities; he held certificates of mastery in seven martial arts. Given this background, he revolutionized Zen training with his principle of “Ki-ai First!”– to cultivate and live into one’s essential spiritual energy as the primary focus. Tanouye Rotaishi taught that this spirit is cultivated physically through one’s own breath and center, and he developed an accessible method for this practice that emphasized the interruption of habits and attachments.

Karate that Goes beyond Punching and Kicking

For over 10 years, the staff of Zen Martial Arts in Sacramento has been coaching people, of all ages, in the process of learning and practicing the martial arts as a tool for learning and practicing the art of being a more complete, proactive, and empowered human being.

We consider ourselves an integral part of the village that helps parents instill valuable character traits, beliefs, and habits in their children. Habits such as self-discipline, the ability to stay calm under pressure, the appreciation of teachers, parents and other mentors, and the value of proper diet, exercise, and education in a happy and fulfilling life.

We teach a brand of self-defense that transcends our physical art and includes the self-defense skills of kindness, empathy, community, and compassion.

Developing the Whole Child

• Out of the Dojo, Into the World

  Students are encouraged to become black-belts in the art of life by taking the character lessons learned in the dojo and extending them out into the world by demonstrating acts of kindness and serving their community.

• The Art of Mindfulness

  The practice of mindfulness is integrated into our regular curriculum. Students learn how the brain functions under stress and develop the tools needed to remain clam under pressure.

• Peace Before Punches

  Every karate student at our school learns a system of non-violent conflict resolution and persuasion strategies that provides confidence when dealing with bullies without resorting to punching and kicking.

Three Things You Should Know Before Enrolling in This School

• This dojo is pioneering

  We are pioneering programs in health education, anger management, environmental self-defense, and experiential leadership training.

• Self-Defense is more than fighting

  A great attitude is self-defense, a healthy diet is self-defense, and moving your body—with purpose—is self-defense.

• We are a community

  If you're looking for a place to invest your time and energy and get all kinds of return from it, welcome home.

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ZenMartial Arts Center
4819 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819

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