Welcome to Prairie Zen Center


Our guiding teacher is Elihu Genmyo Smith, first Dharma Heir of Charlotte Joko Beck and co-founder of the Ordinary Mind Zen School. PZC's practice leader is Ed Mushin Russell, Dharma Heir of Genmyo. Our schedule includes weekly sittings, periodic workshops, and sesshin six times a year.


LocationPZC

PZC is located at 515 S. Prospect (N.W. Corner of Green and Prospect) in Champaign, Illinois. This view is from the driveway entrance off of Green.
Maps and directions

Mushin has an article in the current addition of Midwest Zen Magazine which can be viewed HERE


Teachings

These pages include Dharma talks in audio and text format plus links to books and other sites. Please consider making a donation to PZC so that we may continue to provide these resources.



keep it simple

"Ordinary Life, Wonderous Life" by Genmyo is freely available in PDF format. For info, visit the Books page

Books

The next sesshin will be May 22 through 27 and will include both in-house attendance and Zoom participation.

Sesshin

PZC offers Zoom connectivity for our weekly practice sessions and sesshin. For info visit the Schedules page

Schedules

Audio and video recordings of Genmyo's Dharma talks are available via the Dharma page.

Dharma