Clear Water is the name of the Zendo at the Vallejo Zen Center. It is a Soto Zen Buddhist Temple in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and the San Francisco and Berkeley Zen Centers. The center offers regular meditation, meditation instruction, classes, one-day sittings, work practice, lectures and special workshops.

We are a lay sangha and most of us work in the world. A few of us are retired. There are a few staff positions but all of them are volunteer. We do pay our Abbess a stipend. Everyone in the sangha helps to take care of Clear Water because it belongs to us and in taking such care, we care for one another as well.

The name of the zendo, Clear Water, Comes from a poem by Zen Master Dogen, “The Point of Zazen.”