When body and mind are at peace, 
All things appear as they are;
Perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253) 

Welcome to the London Jizo Zen Centre.  For those of you who have never practised Zen meditation before,  it is a discipline of focusing on the breath in silence to allow the mind and body to become still.

Its many benefits include greater energy, clarity, compassion, kindness and peace. For fuller guidance, please follow the link to the Oxford Zen Centre.

If you would like to try sitting with us in The Meditatio Centre (first floor, St Mark’s Church, Myddleton Square, Islington, London EC1R 1XX), we welcome your interest. Please do get in touch (see email to Mark Hudson) before coming for the first time. You will be asked gradually to build up your daily sitting practice, before coming to a suggested Introduction session, which is from 5 pm in Meditatio, generally (but not always) on the second Tuesday of each month.

A SCHEDULE of Tuesday sitting times for both London (Tuesday) and Oxford (Thursday) zendos in pdf format is available here for 2026. The online calendar for both London and Oxford is also available here (more up to date) and it can be downloaded and/or viewed on your phone, tablet or computer. NOTE that there is no sitting during Sesshins (retreats) or in August.

The Oxford Zen Centre has one Sangha in two locations, led by Zen Teacher Sandy Chubb, in Oxford and London. We sit together every week in both locations as well as on regular retreats in the UK and abroad.