45 Best Zen Blogs to Follow in 2026

1. Zen Habits

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Description Zen Habits is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It's about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what's important, create something amazing, and find happiness. Leo Babauta is the Creator of Zen Habits living in San Diego, California.MORE Email ****@zenhabits.net
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2. Turning Words

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Description Hi, I'm Jeff Kogen Seul, a teacher at the Greater Boston Zen Center. I post my talks and other musings about Zen here. Turning words in Zen prompts realization. Your mileage may vary, but I thought it was a catchy name for a Zen blog.MORE Domain Authority 9 Get Email Contact Read Now

3. Patheos Blog » Monkey Mind

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Description Patheos is the world's leading multi-faith site dedicated to hosting the conversation on faith. This blog is written by James Ford, who is a Zen Buddhist priest and author, which mostly addresses aspects of the Zen life.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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4. Plum Village

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Description A global community of mindfulness practice centers and monasteries offering retreats and teachings on engaged Buddhism and the art of mindful living. Our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, the founder of the International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism, passed away on 22nd January 2022. We have been commemorating his life with ceremonies and spiritual practice.MORE Facebook 163.8KTwitter 219Instagram 98.9K Domain Authority 63 Get Email Contact Read Now

5. San Francisco Zen Center Blog » Zen Practice

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Description San Francisco Zen Center is a Soto Zen community where the offerings of zazen, study and work practice are available to a diverse population of students, visitors, lay people, priests, and monks.MORE Email ****@sfzc.org
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6. Kwan Um School of Zen Blog

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Description The Kwan Um School of Zen supports over 100 Zen centers around the world teaching you the practices and forms of traditional Zen training.
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7. Mountain Record

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Description Mountain Record is the oldest American Zen quarterly, a spiritual journal by the Zen Mountain Monastery with Rinzai & Soto Zen Buddhism teachings, poems & more. For nearly four decades, Mountain Record quarterly journal offered spiritual seekers of all faiths a unique journey through words and images.MORE Email ****@dharma.net
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8. Hardcore Zen

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Description Hardcore Zen is a blog managed by Brad Warner, an author and ordained Zen priest. He released a book with the same name, which serves as both an autobiography and an introduction to Soto Zen philosophy.MORE Facebook 4.1KTwitter 8.5K Domain Authority 45 Get Email Contact Read Now

9. Meditation-zen.org Blog

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Description This blog maintained by Meditation-Zen helps discover the practice of Soto Zen, learning to meditate and preaches the teachings of zen.
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10. Buddhism now » Chan / Seon / Zen

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Description Buddhism Now is an online Buddhist magazine, giving advice on how to practice Buddhism. Here you will find Posts about Chan / Seon / Zen written by Buddhism Now.
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11. Karen Maezen Miller

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Description Cheerio Road is a blog brought to you by Karen Maezen Miller. I'm a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. I write about spirituality in everyday life.MORE Domain Authority 39 Get Email Contact Read Now

12. Brooklyn Zen Center

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Description Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) is an embodied training community in the Soto Zen tradition. We aspire to offer opportunities to realize personal and collective liberation through the cultivation of intimate, ethical, and just relationships with ourselves and all beings. Our vow to practice undoing harmful and oppressive conditioning compassionately transforms our world.MORE Email ****@brooklynzen.org
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13. Zen Center of Denver Blog

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Description The Zen Center of Denver offers meditation instruction, daily meditation and retreats with authentic Zen teachers and a community of seasoned meditation practitioners.
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14. Santa Cruz Zen Center

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Description News and Teachings from the Santa Cruz Zen Center. The purpose of our Center is to embody and communicate the teachings of the Buddha. Our understanding of the non-duality of compassion and wisdom, practice and realization, has been conveyed through the Soto School.MORE Email ****@sczc.org
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15. The Zen Community of Oregon

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Description Zen Community of Oregon is a Soto Zen Buddhist community in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995). Maezumi Roshi's life vow was to plant the Dharma deeply on the soil of North America. The monastery aspires to maintain authentic, whole-hearted practice while keeping the teachings open and accessible to anyone with a sincere desire to practice the Buddha way.MORE Email ****@zendust.org
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16. Empty Gate Zen Center Blog

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Description This blog is a teaching blog brought to you by Empty Gate Zen Center, which provides training in Zen meditation affiliated with The Kwan Um School of Zen.
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17. Zenwest Buddhist Society

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Description Zenwest offers Zen Meditation and Mindfulness training, courses, workshops, classes, and retreats. A variety of inclusive activities for the Sangha and broader community.
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18. Jade Mountain Buddha Hall

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Description This blog is written by Rev. Mugo, who has practiced Soto Zen within the OBC first hand. Jade Mountains contains, and points to, various sources of Buddhist teachings.
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19. The Same Old Zen

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Description This blog is written by Sensei Alex Kakuyo, a lay Buddhist minister and former Marine. He serves as a teacher in the Bright Dawn Center of Oneness Buddhism; a nonsectarian Buddhist sangha that encourages students to find Dharma teachings in everyday life.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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20. Flowing Zen Blog

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Description I'm Anthony Korahais, and I created Flowing Zen because I know what it's like to suffer. Read my blog to know a lot more practicality, about life, what heaps, how I healed, what helped me, process, and a lot more things!MORE Email ****@flowingzen.com
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21. The Existential Buddhist

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Description The Existential Buddhist is non-sectarian, exploring Buddhism from the point of view of reason and lived experience, rather than from adherence to dogma and/or spiritual authority.
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22. One Time, One Meeting

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Description One Time, One Meeting is a monthly column on the practice of Zen meditation. Here you can find articles like the dignity of stillness, Good for nothing, becoming ancestors, the pleasures of inscription and many more like this!MORE Domain Authority 17 Get Email Contact Read Now

23. Nyohō Zen

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Description This blog is a place to explore the teaching of nyoho-being in accord with the Dharma. In traditional monastic terms, nyoho is discussed in terms of color, materials, and size as they relate to food, clothing, and shelter. The goal of this blog is to try to examine this teaching in terms of both its traditional interpretations and also its larger implications in our daily lives.MORE Email ****@yahoo.com
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24. The One Open Door

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Description This website is dedicated to the practice of Zen Buddhist Meditation and to the work of ending suffering.
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25. Buffalo Zen Dharma Community Blog

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Description The Buffalo Zen Dharma Community has begun its usual full-service weekly Tuesday night meditation program at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Read our blog to know more about our community, what we do, what happens at our gatherings, and many more!MORE Email ****@buffalozen.org
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26. Zen Center of Las Vegas

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Description Zen Center of Las Vegas's mission is to help us understand and see our situation and life direction. We create suffering in this world by thoughts of, 'Here I am, this is where I want to be.' We're always projecting outward. We're clouded by 'I, my, me.' By getting rid of judgmental thought, we get back to the essence of who we are, which is compassion.'MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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27. Blue Mountain Zendo

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Description Blue Mountain Zendo nurtures and builds upon the initial spark of awakening which occurs as the catalyst for our awakening process, and together with the sangha, forges a personal path that reveals the true source of that rudimentary spark. It is true to traditional Rinzai Zen form and offers traditional liturgy, koan practice, ceremony, dokusan, zazen, intensity, and discipline.MORE Email ****@bluemountainzendo.org
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28. Zen Fellowship of Bakersfield Blog

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Description Dedicated to the practice of zazen, or Zen meditation, in the Soto tradition of Taisen Deshimaru and Kodo Sawaki. We are an American Zen Association member organization affiliated with the New Orleans Zen Temple, the Zen Fellowship of Alexandria, Louisiana, and more. Go through our blog to know more about us, and how we work.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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29. New Orleans Zen Temple

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Description New Orleans Zen Temple practices traditional Zen practices in the heart of New Orleans. Sam Kearley leads the group with great commitment, and the university has been very supportive, dedicating space in the Meditation Chapel of the beautiful All Saints' Chapel.MORE Email ****@sewanee.edu
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30. Open Gate Zen Collective Blog

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Description OG (Open Gate) Zen collective is a group of people that share, and are motivated, by the practice of Zen to achieve a more harmonious world. Our mission is to gather and practice zazen (Zen meditation) and develop Zen training. We practice to realize and embody what our Zen ancestors have done for centuries, to realize our Buddha nature, to awaken, and serve others.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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31. No Gate Zen Center Blog

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Description No Gate Zen Center is a traditional and not-so-traditional Zen Buddhist sangha. Our lineage is Soto and Rinzai Zen and we engage in Dream-Koan* practice as well as other beautiful and inspirational, diverse Buddhist practices. Our practices are relevant, vibrant, and deeply meaningful in today's world. Read our blog to know more about our practices.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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32. San Mateo Zen Blog

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Description San Mateo Zen community, an affiliate of the PACIFIC ZEN INSTITUTE, is a welcoming group of mostly Silicon Valley and San Francisco professionals, homemakers, craftspeople, and students who have joined together as a community to practice Zen. We have entered a path that is at once both fresh and ancient, both impermanent and enduring. A path of exploration, discovery, and freedom.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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33. Zen Embodiment

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Description Zen Embodiment is all about movement, meditation, and internal processes. Here you can find mind-healing articles like don't be vulgar move with essences, mind transmission, the second breath recorded, you have to love your practice, and many more!MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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34. A to Zen Life Blog

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Description Hi there, I'm Marissa! Along my journey to let go of 30 years of clutter, I accidentally became a minimalist and it was life-changing. This blog is my place to share all my learning, decluttering tips, and more! My mission is to help real families just like we conquer their clutter and simplify their way to a happier and better life.MORE Email ****@atozenlife.com
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35. Zen Master Dogen

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Description Focuses on the teaching of the Great Master and founder of Soto Zen. The site features downloads of his work, recommended books and analysis, related teachings from modern Zen Masters, audiofiles and podcasts, and more.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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36. Jason Quinn Zen Blog

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Description Blog by Jason Quinn, author of No-Nonsense Zen for Beginners, about Zen, meditation, life, and purpose. This website is dedicated to Zen, meditation, and life. He hopes that this can be valuable for anyone looking to investigate life, understand themselves, and respond to this world clearly and helpfully.MORE Email ****@jasonquinnzen.com
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37. Turn Up Your Zen Blog

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Description Turn UP Your Zen blog shares meditation and mindfulness practices to help you reduce stress, to live a calm, relaxed & present life. It was created by Tania to help people when she observed the growing number of well-educated, overly busy men and women feeling stressed out, reactive, numb, overwhelmed, anxious &/or depressed.MORE Email ****@turnupyourzen.com
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38. Blog by Esther Neela M.

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Description This is a blog from a Zen living enthusiast. The author practices Meditation, Reiki, Yoga, Qigong, and Natural Therapies such as Ayurveda.
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39. Tim Burkett's Blog | Zen Buddhist Teachings

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Description This blog is written by Tim Burkett who is psychologist, author, and Guiding Teacher at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center.
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