Mission 

Ocean Mind Sangha empowers home dwellers by offering them accessible resources to deepen their Zen Buddhist practice. As a sangha, we are noble friends who support one another in creating the conditions and engaging the tools needed to cultivate wisdom and compassion.

The Mission of OMS is to inspire and support lay practitioners, particularly those whose life circumstances preclude them from participating in more formal, in-person practice, yet whose aspiration to live kindly and fiercely awake continually guides their path.

Statement of Core Values

As both a sangha and as individual practitioners of the Buddhist path, we rely on certain core values to provide the foundation for our practice and training.

• Trust. We cultivate and earn the confidence that we are working together toward a central and common goal: our mutual well-being and liberation. 
  

• Reverence. We recognize buddha nature in all beings and vow to regard them with both love and respect, centering our aspiration to awaken in all our interactions.
  

• Accountability. We are individually and collectively responsible for upholding these values and speaking up when corrective action is necessary. 

As practitioners of the dharma, we gather in community to study and practice the Buddhist teachings with the intent to liberate ourselves and to support others in their own path to awakening. With awareness of this fact, we in the Ocean Mind Sangha agree to follow the Ethical Guidelines attached below—a code based on our core values whose objective is to nurture an atmosphere supportive of our practice of the dharma.

OMS Ethical Guidelines and Grievance and Reconciliation Process

*Banner photo by Zuisei