Welcome to Clear Mountain


AS OF LATE SEPTEMBER, 2021, THE CLEAR MOUNTAIN ZENDO HAS RE-OPENED ON SUNDAY MORNINGS FOR ZAZEN SITTING FROM 9:30 AM TO 11:30 AM. WE PRESENTLY USE A HYBRID FORMAT WHEREBY ZOOM CONTINUES FOR REMOTE PARTICIPATION, BUT MEMBERS OF CLEAR MOUNTAIN SANGHA AND PRE-ARRANGED VISITORS HAVE THE OPTION OF ATTENDING IN PERSON. WE REQUIRE THAT MASKS BE WORK AT ALL TIMES AT THE ZENDO AND WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF SANGHA MEMBERS WHO CAN BE PRESENT IN THE ZENDO. WE ALSO RESERVE THE RIGHT TO INQUIRE AS TO VACCINATION STATUS FOR IN-PERSON ATTENDEES.


IF INTERESTED IN JOINING US FOR OUR SUNDAY ZAZEN FROM 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM ON ZOOM, PLEASE E-MAIL BILL, OUR LEAD STUDENT TEACHER, at billnathan@juno.com


On behalf of the sangha of the Clear Mountain Zen Center of Montclair, New Jersey, let me welcome you to our web site. We hope that you will find something of help and interest to your life's journey. I further hope that you will gain a sense of our practice and what we offer to the community of northern New Jersey. Our sangha includes a broad variety of individuals of many different talents, ages, experiences and backgrounds, but we all seek to preserve and honor the great Zen traditions developed over centuries and millenium in the lands of the East. We strive to present them in ways most relevant to our modern culture.
 

While faithfully hewing to the pathways tread by our elders in Zen and respecting the rigors they prescribed, we seek to offer a place of peace, healing, community and reconciliation to all who might benefit from a quiet, disciplined and yet ultimately humanistic approach to daily life and the pursuit of awareness. Under the guidence of the White Plum Asanga and our guilding teacher, Roshi Robert Jinsen Kennedy, we offer beginners instruction, weekly Zazen on Sunday mornings, weekday quiet time, and other ways of serving our community. Thank you for your attention, and we welcome your comments or your visit.
 

Carl Genjo Bachmann, Sensei

Sensei Carl Bachmann

Clear Mountain Zen Center
80 Pompton Ave
Verona, NJ 07044
 

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Clear Mountain Zendo
are NOT tax-deductible.