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Nebraska Zen Center
Nebraska Zen Center: Find stillness in Omaha
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Nebraska Zen Center: Find stillness in Omaha
Nebraska Zen Center is a Soto Zen Buddhist temple in Omaha. Located at 3625 Lafayette Ave, it offers welcoming instruction from teachers Dosho and Tetsugan and hosts open Sunday meditation sessions for newcomers. The center is noted for its clean, organized space and a supportive community that helps practitioners cultivate mindfulness and a simpler, more peaceful life.
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Weekly meditation sessions on Sundays, open to all levels, offering guided practice in a welcoming environment.
Regular meditation and Zen rituals for members and visitors to cultivate mindfulness and discipline.
Extended meditation retreats providing immersive experiences for deeper spiritual exploration and community bonding.
Personalized support from teachers for newcomers to learn meditation techniques and Zen principles without pressure.
Gatherings and activities that foster connection and shared practice among members and the local Omaha community.
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Troy Rapp
Participation in daily practice and retreats at NZC in my early 20’s, along with mentoring from resident priests and association with the NZC community, helped form the foundation of a lifetime of Buddhist practice. Highly recommended.
Sensei Walter Bera PhD
In 2016 Dosho Mike Port and Tetsugan Zummach Osho became the head teachers of the Nebraska Zen Center. They brought their rigorous training, profound teaching and disciplined creativity to develop NZC into one of the top Buddhist Centers in North America!
praveen besta
Checkout open session on Sunday's for personal experience. It's been 1 year since I started visiting the center. I LOVE it! Learnings from this pace is having positive effect in my life. I enjoy the two teachers Dosho and Tetsugan.
Tom Millie
I began my journey at the NZC just over a year ago and I’ve experienced an improvement in my mental state as well as my sense of being. I really enjoy the two teachers Dosho and Tetsugan. They are very welcoming and helpful to people new to meditation and there is no pressure to join or to be involved. If your mind is cluttered or you’re looking for a way to simplify your life. I recommend visiting an open Zen session on a Sunday. Everyone is very nice and welcoming. The center is very clean and organized, I think you would like it.
Ariel Armaita
This review is based upon my last visit which was over a year and a half ago. (Late 2015) Pros: It is a Soto Zen Buddhist Temple! In Omaha! The temple has a new abbot and clergy that does seem to be actively engaged in upkeep, community, and modernization. Membership requirements have changed as well making it more accessible. However last time I was there several key staff positions were about to be vacated due to personal life changes. I highly recommend any Zen Buddhist to stop in and form their own opinion since there have been many recent changes. Cons: Sadly there are so many of these I can not reasonably list them all. I came here to enter the priesthood as well as seeking help; didn't happen. Found a dilapidated temple with a dying priest and somewhat aloof (...and possibly depressed due to a bleak outlook...) congregation. Generations later since Zen Buddhism entered the United States it is still clinging heavily to it's Japanese origin. Only integrating some of the worst aspects of American culture. And I found this temple to not be an exception. Albeit some of that is caused by legal restrictions of our own government. ----- I have decided instead to seek priesthood in Japan. And as for help... "Seek no external refuge, the Dharma is your island." - Siddhartha Gautama, Maha-parinibbana Sutta. May all visitors, members, and clergy of Heartland Temple find solace and peace.
