The Clear Water Zen Center is an authentic Zen Buddhist meditation practice center for Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg.
We are a lay group of Zen Buddhist practitioners who meet at scheduled times every week for meditation, chanting, dharma talks, and discussion. We have several intensive meditation retreats per year. The complete schedule is at [clearwaterzencenter.org](https://www.clearwaterzencenter.org/).

We are affiliated with the Windhorse Zen Community, and our teacher is Roshi Lawson Sachter. Roshi Lawson is a dharma heir of Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of The Three Pillars of Zen and founder of the Rochester Zen Center.
Roshi Lawson authorized Jeff George to be the assistant dharma teacher for the sangha.

The Zen Center's *zendo* (meditation hall) is fully equipped, so you don't need to bring anything when you visit.
If you are looking for a no-nonsense, authentic Zen practice center, you have found it.

2476 Nursery Road, Clearwater, FL 33764

For more information, please visit [clearwaterzencenter.org](https://www.clearwaterzencenter.org/).

*This Meetup website says that the group was started in 2009. Well, that's when we started a Meetup group! The meditation group was started in the 1980s by Ken Rosen.*