Our curriculum strips Zen down to what's useful: test every teaching against your own experience, and never trade your freedom for safety.
Applied Zen means meditation you can use on the street, in school, in a tense moment — not philosophy for its own sake. The materials below are the backbone of how we teach.
Each will live here as a readable page with a downloadable version, so anyone can learn without a login or a fee.
The core text — test teachings against experience; keep your freedom.
Foundations, in plain language, for newcomers to the practice.
Context and comparison — where this fits, and where it doesn't.
What to do, what to say, your rights and responsibilities with police.
"Dealing with Each Other" — behavior-change requests for real conflict.
Energy management, orange meditation, respect, working with repetitive thought.
Titles drawn from the existing site's PDFs. Confirm which to publish, then convert each into a clean web page plus a download.
Ready to move from reading to practice? Find a class or a workshop.
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