Providence Zen Center publishes a weekly events newsletter, a monthly online practice newsletter, as well as a monthly “One Sangha” newsletter focusing on Zen Teachings & sangha news. Contact the editor with questions or suggestions.
One Sangha Newsletter Past Issues
- Issue 11, January/February 2026 – Happy New Year!
Teaching: From Meaning to Purpose | Beginner’s Mind: Temple Meals 101 | Zen Read Attachment To Emptiness in Culture Today (Excerpt from Primary Point) - Issue 10, December 2025 – Winter Holidays Edition
Teaching: This, Just This, Is the End of Stress | Beginner’s Mind: Heart Sutra | Zen Read: Eating Is the Most Important Excerpt, Primary Point, Fall 2021 - Issue 9, November 2025 – Zensgiving Edition
Teaching: Aware of Our Actions | Beginner’s Mind: Precepts | Zen Reads for Kids, Cats & Katz! - Issue 8, September 2025
Teaching: Pushing and Holding | Beginner’s Mind: Know Your Teachers | Zen Read: Zen Sutras Issue 7: Emptiness (Ooops, someone did the math wrong). See Issue 8 for form.- Issue 6, August 2025
Teaching: Practical Compassion | Beginner’s Mind: Zen Sounds | Zen Read: Don’t Know Mind: The Spirit of Korean Zen | Founder’s Day / Zen Fest Recap - Issue 5, July 2025
Teaching: Perceiving the Three I’s | Beginner’s Mind: Why sit silent retreats? | Zen Read: Composting Our Karma - Issue 4, June 2025
Teaching: Insight into the three I’s | Beginner’s Mind: Why do we chant? | Sangha Workday Recap | Art as Practice Retreat Recap - Issue 3, April 2025
Teaching: Not knowing is the most intimate | Beginner’s Mind: What is the origin of the four great vows? | Buddha’s Birthday Recap | Zen Read: Bone of Space Poetry - Issue 2, March 2025
Teaching: From the penthouse to the basement | Beginner’s Mind: What are Kong-an interviews? | Art as Practice Opportunities - Issue 1, February 2025
Meet the Co-Guiding Teachers | Teaching: Practicing Zen | Beginner’s Mind: What is ‘inka’?
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