Houston Zen Center is a place to practice meditation in the Zen tradition. The Center offers daily meditation, classes on Zen, Buddhism and spirituality. The purpose of Houston Zen Community, also known as the Houston Zen Center, is to express, make accessible, and embody the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha. Houston Zen Center exists to provide an environment that supports spiritual practice based on the living tradition of Zen Buddhism, transmitted from Shakyamuni Buddha through Dogen Zenji, Keizan Zenji, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and other exemplary Zen teachers. Houston Zen Center’s central value is to express the non-duality of practice and awakening through the practice of Zen and the sixteen Bodhisattva precepts, acknowledging and valuing equally the expression of the practice in formal settings and in daily life, thus affirming both lay and monastic practice as expressions of the Bodhisattva way.