Tucson, Arizona

click here for information about our upcoming March residential retreat

"What is Zen?"
"The heart of the one who asks is Zen."

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Some Upcoming Events

Tuesday, January 21, at Little  Chapel, 6:30-7:30: Tuesday evening study group: Joan Sutherland's Vimalakirti and the Awakened Heart

Sunday, January 26, at Little Chapel, 3:30-5:00: with optional Work in the Room

Monday, January 27, at Little Chapel, 12-1: Monday Meditation
(no Monday sits over UA winter break or on MLK Day)

Saturday, February 8, at Little Chapel, 8-4: All Day Sit

March 3-8, 2020: Residential  Retreat at Picture  Rocks

for more upcoming events please visit our program page

Desert Rain Zen is a Koan-based Zen group in the Open Source tradition. We hold weekly sits on Sunday afternoons from 3:30-5:00 at the Little Chapel of All Nations on the University of Arizona Campus (see map below). Our sits are free and open to the public. We welcome new and experienced meditators. Our practice aims to bring traditional forms inherited from China and Japan into touch with our contemporary world and our actual lives.

Our Tuesday Evening Study Group meets the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays of each month.

Monday Meditation: Just Sitting (no frills) takes place each week from 12-1.

Our Resident Teacher is Tenney Nathanson Sensei. Our Head of Practice is Jennifer Sellers.

We're part of the Open Source Zen network founded by Joan Sutherland Roshi. You can access her talks and writings at Cloud Dragon : The Joan Sutherland Dharma Works. Joan is also featured in a round-table discussion about koans in Lion's Roar.

Dharma talks from our March retreat are available here on our Talks page; there are also two talks from our June 2016 Mahasangha retreat on that page.

You can find all the talks from the Open Source Mahasangha June 2016 retreat--by Open Source Senseis Sarah Bender, Andrew Palmer, Megan Rundel, and Tenney Nathanson--here on Andrew Palmer's Bow & Roar website.

& don't  miss our page on Working with Koans.

Desert Rain Zen is sustained entirely by individual contributions. Please consider donating to DRZ.

Where to find us

The Little Chapel is located at 1401 East First Street, on the University of Arizona campus:

For our weekend and evening events, you can park in any of the spaces in the Little Chapel parking lot (including the reserved spaces).  For parking for our Monday Meditation, please see details at Monday Meditation, Questions? text or phone 520-235-1267 or 520-977-3983, or email desertrainzen@gmail.com.

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this page last  modified January 20, 2020

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