Vallejo Zen Center, or Clear Water Zendo, is fully functioning temple with early morning zazen…read more(meditation), Saturday morning program including lecture, One-Day Sittings and multi day Sessions. There are scheduled classes and monthly Full Moon Ceremonies. This temple has been a big help for me. Daily zazen gets me off to a good start each morning. I enjoy learning the teachings of Dogen and more contemporary teachers. The temple is welcoming and the Sangha is there to help, especially newcomers. Abbess Mary Mocine is available to help students with their practice and how to apply it to our lives. We also have speakers from San Francisco and Berkeley Zen Centers. Vallejo Zen Center is a wonderful place to discover and develop a Zen practice.

Vallejo Zen Center (Clearwater Zendo) is a welcoming community with a peaceful space to practice…read more There's ample room to feel comfortable in the beautiful Zendo along with chairs and cushions, depending on one's needs. We are fortunate to have Mary Mocine offering Zen teachings in this part of the Bay Area and to experience the warmth of her heart. I am happy to practice here.

This is a great place to learn meditation, or just drop in if you are looking for a free place to…read moremeditate that is beautiful and serene with friendly people. Some here also study the Tibetan Buddhist path but that is optional; beginners are welcome and free meditation instruction is offered several times a week. They serve refreshments at most of their events when the meditation session is over. While some of the regulars are older there are others who are younger, some from the UCD community and some families with younger and older children. Learning to meditate has been such a gift for me personally...

free instruction, breakfast 8-9 am on tue-thu, people i met there were sll friendly and kind, many…read moreare older but younget folks too, great outside patio

It's a beautiful place and the people are even better. It's not what I expected it's so much more.read more

As a former member of SGI-USA, I had heard a lot from them about "the Priesthood issue", which was…read morea covert way of referring to strained relations with Nichiren Shoshu. I was told the Priests are greedy, mean, and power-hungry. However, this couldn't be further from the truth. The Priests are kind, warm, and approachable. The members are open, caring, and loving. The Temple and its administrators value the privacy of the members. I have taken many friends as my guest to the Temple, out of my pride and love for this Temple. It is a very comfortable, even transformative place to be. I find myself making excuses to go there weekly, all the way from Fremont to Pinole! If you are interested in creating peace, joy, and fullfilment in your life, the Buddhism of Nichiren Shoshu is for you! Come check out our Temple!!!

A Ggreat place to learn meditation or if you are already a meditator just to come and sit. It's two…read moreblocks off the Square. The people there are very nice and welcoming. A very open and low-key environment.

so the old man is a buddhist. for the record i am not. but i adhere to buddhist principles. and…read morewe met at a buddhist retreat center. and we got married at said retreat center on a stage built for his holiness the dalai lama. so when it was time to pick a wedding favor for our guests...we decided to make our own tsa tsa's...or mini molded buddha statues. we took a class on how to mix and pour the molds and they gave us a key to the studio so we could drive up from santa cruz whenever we wanted to make them. we chose to make medicine buddha statues because we got married at land of medicine buddha and were able to able to make them the beautiful royal blue color. it wasn't cheap, but it was a great experience to make our wedding favors from scratch together and we had a lot of fun. they even supplied the boxes and helped us print up little cards to put inside. it is a lot of work but it was worth it.

This is a great, welcoming place with nice people and free and easy-to follow guided meditation…read moreevery week.

From the owner: Diamond Way Buddhist Group Davis belongs to an international non-profit network of over 600 lay…read moreDiamond Way Buddhist centers of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, founded by Lama Ole Nydahl and under the spiritual guidance of H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje.

They have many different weekly meditation groups to choose from, as well as special events. The…read morestaff/volunteers are friendly and welcoming. And the space itself is comfortable and calming.

Some of the groups are really well facilitated.... Wonderful offerings and I recommend keep…read moreexploring until you find a group you resonate with

I have just completed three shamonic journeys with Erica and feel changed in the most delightful…read moreways. My goal for these journeys was to be able to tap into deeper wisdom within myself around some perplexing parts of my life. Erica's guidance gave me specific tools to find my guides and to work with them in the journey world and to feel safe while I was there. Her reflections after each journey helped me to expand my understanding of my experience and to move forward with confidence. Erica is clearly called to do this work and has immense skill and warmth as a practitioner. I look forward to continuing this transformational work with Erica and recommend working with her to all who are ready to really go deep in their own work.

I wanted to do a follow up review to say that two years later, and I still talk and "meet" with…read moreErica. I not only feel different; I can quite literally measure and review the progress I have had from two years ago until now. I have switched to monthly check ins, but Erica's guidance was a life saver and life changer.