Zen Center Athens

Zen Center Athens is a non-profit public benefit organization, dedicated to the practical teaching of the ancient Way of Zen and the martial arts that carry its spirit. The main purpose of Zen Center Athens is to offer to the people in Athens a chance to discover and learn about this 2600-year-old practice that remains active today and even seems more important than ever before. The practice of zazen is beyond dogmas and is therefore particularly suitable for people in our time. We follow the Soto Zen tradition, as established and recorded by its Japanese founder, Dogen Zenji during the 13th century. The core of Zen is zazen, the sitting meditation or “just sitting“. It is a practice that gradually transforms the practitioner, leading us into discovering the original self by removing all the masks that have been put in place during the course of a lifetime.