Please donate to the 2023 Oasis of Peace Year-End Fund

Dear friends and members,

Houston Zen Center is an oasis of peace. The teachings of Zen offer a path to wisdom and compassion, for all beings, and we are pledged to continue this way of peace and wisdom for all time. Abbot Gaelyn Godwin and President Royce Johnson wish you the very best during the closing days of this eventful year. We ask that you consider helping Houston Zen Center / Auspicious Cloud Temple with its projects, and with closing its year end gap of $22,000.

The Trees:

If you would like to help with the costs of caring for the trees on the Houston Zen Center land, and/or on the Auspicious Cloud Retreat Center land, please donate generously. Our care for the trees is continuous, amounting to $12,000 this year.

Path Lights:

We have provided new path lighting at Auspicious Cloud Retreat Center. The low lights provide just enough light to move from building to building, while preserving the dark night sky. Please consider helping to defray the costs of the lighting.

Closing the Gap:

The Center’s Board of Directors and Finance Committee are serious in holding to our annual budget. Yet expenses have increased, partly due to surging costs in the world, and partly due to maintenance and repair expenses on our beautiful properties. Please consider a gift to close the gap.

Simply Giving:

Please consider giving a gift just to acknowledge the work of your Zen Center, its members, residents, teachers, and all the many visitors who come to offer their own wisdom and compassion.

May the New Year bring peace and well-being to you, and to all living beings.

Sincerely,

President Royce Johnson and Abbot Gaelyn Godwin

Did you know that thousands of people attend our classes and events in Houston at the Houston Zen Center urban campus? From our basic Introduction to Zen Series, to our advanced teachings on Karma, Zen Poetry, the Fundamental Teachings of the Middle Way; from our half-hour introduction, to our 7-day sessions, we provide a full range of entry points for seekers from all spiritual traditions.

Sincerely,
President Royce Johnson and Abbot Gaelyn Godwin

General Donation

Thank you for donating to the Houston Zen Center. HZC is entirely funded by donations, membership dues, and classes. Your donations make the dharma available to everyone.

Houston Zen Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information, please email secretary@houstonzen.org.

You may also donate by mailing a check to HZC, 1605 Heights Boulevard, Houston, TX 77008

Your donation is an important support of dharma in the world. Thank you.

Dana for Visiting Teachers

Thank you for donating to one of the amazing visiting Zen teachers that come to Houston to share the dharma. Dana, which means generosity, is the offering we give to the teachers to promote their teaching. Please give what you can to today’s visiting teacher, here.

Maitreya Society

Maitreya is the Buddha of Loving-Kindness, the future Buddha who watches over all beings now and in times to come. By naming the Society for Maitreya, whose name comes from Metta, or Love, the members join in watching over the future wellbeing of Houston Zen Center, also known as Auspicious Cloud Temple, enabling it to welcome seekers for many years to come. Please download and fill in the Letter of Intent and send it to HZC so you will be enrolled in the Maitreya Society list of generous friends.

We gratefully acknowledge those helping to ensure our sustainability for future generations of way-seekers by including Houston Zen Center in their estate plans. For a list of Society members who have made pledges to date, select here.

PLANNED GIVING
Making a planned gift is a wonderful way to leave a legacy for Houston Zen Center. Your planned gift can be tailored to your financial and estate planning goals and will provide lasting support for making the dharma available for generations to come. You can designate it with a specific purpose in mind or leave it unrestricted so Zen Center can apply it toward the areas of greatest need.

LIFETIME GIVING
PLAN YOUR GIFT
LEAVE A LEGACY

If you would like to include Houston Zen Center in your estate plans, or have already done so, please contact Stephen, HZC's Administrative Assistant. He will send materials and/or connect Tim Schorre, the chairperson of the Maitreya Society Committee.