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The courtyard behind the Zendo is spacious. A birdbath with a sitting Buddha statue in the center draws immediate attention.

The walking meditation, kinhin, is done in the courtyard. Occasionally the courtyard is used to host a party, after a ceremony or other formal events.

The main entrance to the Zen Center is on Cimarron Street. We have not been using it for a long time and ask visitors and students to use the gate in the alley.

Bamboo grows around the walls of the Zen Center and cleaning the sidewalk, picking up trash is one of the daily chores during samu or nitten-soji.

The entrance to the Zendo is right next to the second Zendo and the door to the tea room.

The tea room is used for the meals, only during Dai-sesshin meals are taken in the Zendo, sitting in meditation posture.

Gatherings in the tea room to chat after or before the meditation are a regular happening at Rinzai0ji.

In the picture to the right you are looking from the side (behind you is the wall on Cimarron Street) towards the tea room. The second Zendo has space for practitioners that prefer not to sit in the Main Hall.

Many formal group pictures were taken on the steps of the deck that leads into the Zendo.

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