日々是好日
Nichi Nichi
kore kōjitsu.
Every day is a happy day.
A quiet place for Zen practice, teaching, and community — offered by Reverend Daito Thompson from the Gulf coast of Florida.
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The Method of Zen
Full zazen instruction — body, breathing, mind, and the practice of perfection.
Read more →Meet Reverend Thompson
His training, teachers, lineage, and how to reach him for practice.
Read more →Founder’s Memorial
Remembering Rev. Dr. Zengaku Soyu Matsuoka-roshi, with photographs and eulogy.
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Zen is not an idea to be understood, but a life to be lived. The method is simple, and it is the work of a lifetime: sit, notice, return.
Zazen
Seated silence. The foundation of practice — returning, again and again, to the breath and the moment as it is.
Everyday Action
Sweeping the floor, pouring tea, answering a message. Practice does not end when you leave the cushion.
Openness
Meeting each day, each person, each difficulty with an unguarded and unhurried mind.
Meet Reverend Thompson
A teacher on the shore.
Reverend Daito Thompson has walked the path of Zen for decades — through monasteries and marketplaces, at bedsides and on the beach at first light.
His teaching is unadorned. It meets people where they are: householders, seekers, doubters, and the simply curious. Every question is a doorway.
“To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.” — Dōgen
Founder’s Memorial Observance
A gathering of gratitude.
Each year we bow in remembrance of those who kept the lamp burning before us. The ceremony is open to old students, new friends, and anyone drawn by quiet.
Sit with us
The door is open.
Questions, first visits, and quiet correspondences are all welcome. Reverend Thompson answers personally.