About Us

We’re here to help you find your way.

We created this Zen Center to be an oasis in the storm of life for someone like you.

We are a diverse, open-hearted Sangha community practicing a Zen spiritual path in the White Plum Lineage. Our doors are open to everyone, regardless of race, religion, gender, or point of view.

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Our vision is to cultivate an awakened world that transforms suffering into compassion and delusion into wisdom.

Our mission is to empower you to live a Zen-inspired life of openness, empathy, and clarity.

Our values

Deep Respect – Honor all people, perspectives, and agreements with loyalty and openness
Genuine Presence – Show up authentically and create beauty in how you engage
Fearless Honesty – Practice openness in conflict and fact challenges as growth opportunities
Conscious Awareness – Acknowledge privilege and embrace different worldviews with curiosity.

Meet Our Co-Founders

Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse and Roshi June Ryushin Tanoue co-founded this Zen Center together in 2010. As husband and wife, they have spent much of their life practicing and teaching. They co-founded this Center to make the spiritual path of Zen accessible to any one regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender, or nationality. In the process a warm-hearted community has grown up around them that supports each other on this spiritual path of Zen.

Meet with Roshi Joshin