Anchorage Zen Community seeks awareness sitting in silence
Resident priest Genmyo Jana Zeedyk, second from left, and other members of the Anchorage Zen Community meditate during a Sunday service in Anchorage, Alaska, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. For more than three decades, members of the Anchorage Zen Community have gathered in unusual venues with the same intention: simply to sit and meditate in silence. These days, they finally gather permanently at a small meditation hall.
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For more than three decades, members of the Anchorage Zen Community have gathered in unusual venues -- from a busy strip mall to a converted garage -- with the same intention: simply to sit and meditate in silence.
Nomadic no more, they have found stillness and stability in a small zendo, or meditation hall, tucked on the edge of two neighborhoods in Alaska's most populous city and epicenter of urban culture...
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