Zen Master Tenshin Fletcher Speaks in Long Beach

Tenshin Fletcher Roshi (Roshi is the Japanese title for a Zen Master) is the abbot of Yokoji-Zen Mountain Center, an international Zen training center situated on 160 acres of pristine wilderness in the local San Jacinto Mountains, about two hours from Long Beach. As a successor of Maezumi Roshi—one of the early teachers to bring Zen to the West in the 1960’s—Tenshin Roshi is one of a few teachers in the US to be appointed as an international representative of the Japanese Soto school of Zen.

After more than one hundred people attended Tenshin Roshi’s first talk in Long Beach this past April, Yokoji-Zen Mountain Center started the Yokoji Long Beach Zen Group, which meets every Saturday morning in downtown. Yokoji hopes to eventually develop this group into a full-scale city Zen center.

According to Tenshin, “Over time, Zen practice can give us insight into the nature of our own mind and can enable us to undo the habitual conditioning that causes much unhappiness and stress. As a result, we can learn to live with greater awareness and ease, and ultimately to live much more satisfying lives.”

Yokoji Zen Mountain Center and the Yokoji Long Beach Zen Group welcomes people from all religious and spiritual backgrounds who are interested in the life changing practice of meditation. For more information about the Yokoji Long Beach Zen Group or Tenshin Roshi’s upcoming talk, please visit: www.zmc.org/longbeach, or call: (951) 659-5272.