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Consider joining us for our Spring 2008 YMJJ retreat. This three day Zen retreat will take place in May at our center in Gainesville, FL. See this page for details.

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Abbot: Bodhisattva Teacher KC Walpole

The Gateless Gate is a center dedicated to the practice and instruction of meditation in the Zen Tradition. The Gateless Gate serves as a regional Zen Center for North Central Florida, and is comprised of the Gainesville Zen Circle, the Orlando Zen Circle and the Les-Bi-Gay Orlando Zen Circle. The Dharma rooms are open to all.

What is Zen?

Zen is understanding your true self.

"What am I?" Everybody says, "I am." Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am."

We always say "I." But what is this "I"? Where does this "I" come from? When you die, where does it go? These are the most important questions you can ever ask. If you attain this "I", you attain everything. That is because this "I" is part of universal substance. Your substance, this desk's substance, this stick's substance, the sun, the moon, the stars-everything's substance is the same substance. So if you want to understand you true nature, first you must attain your original substance. This means attaining universal substance and the substance of everything.

Studying about Zen should never be confused with practicing Zen, just as studying aesthetics should not be confused with being an artist

~ Kasulis