The Dancing Crane Zen Center meets at:
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
4225 NW 34th St
Gainesville, FL 32605
DCZC is led by Rev. Meredith Garmon who began the Center in 2006. Meredith is the minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville and has been a practitioner and student of Zen since 2001.
Meredith continues his training with his teacher, Ruben Habito, Zen master (Roshi) at Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas, Texas, of the Sanbo Kyodan school of Zen. Meredith, a Senior Student in Sanbo Kyodan, travels to Dallas for sesshin (intensive Zen retreats of 4 to 7 days) a couples times a year. Meredith received jukai (taking of lay vows; “confirmation” as a Zen Buddhist) in 2007.
You are most welcome to the Zen path and to Dancing Crane Zen Center! Please browse this web site and be sure to watch the videos on our “Helpful Videos” page: (click here).
In recent years, I have been privileged to share in the inestimable bounties of regular Zen practice with our sangha at Hokoku-an led by Seido Ray Nonci, in the activities of Show-Me Dharma, led by Virginia Morgan, and in those of the Dancing Crane Zen Center, led by Meredith Garmon.
- James H. Austin, M.D., “Acknowledgments,” Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2011)
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