Welcome to the Mountain Source Sangha Web Site

We are a community of people practicing in the world, while communing with the deep spirit of zazen, sitting meditation, in the Soto Zen Buddhist teaching tradition. We wish to make accessible this meditation practice, and invite all to join with us. The Dharma informing our buddha work is that of Dogen Zenji, Suzuki Roshi, and the long tradition of buddha ancestors, including those both celebrated and unknown. In this new millennium we live in a world where the darkness of greed, hatred, and confusion is rampant around us. And yet right amid the corruption and cruelty of this dark age is a wonderful opportunity for us to make a difference by sharing the radiance of good will, uprightness, clarity, and kindness. Finding our own inner integrity, we accept our interconnectedness with all beings, and express our sense of wonder and possibility with the world around us. This webpage offers information about occasions for joining with us in practice and teaching events. We are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but have members and friends in various places throughout the United States, and look forward to offering Dharma more widely through this webpage.

-Taigen Leighton, Dharma Teacher

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad beings come forth and experience themselves is enlightenment. Those who are greatly enlightened about delusion are buddhas. Those greatly deluded about enlightenment are deluded beings. -Dogen Zenji


Site updated on March 4, 2002