Evening Practice (hybrid – online and offline)
Mondays: 7-8:40 pm
Friday: 6:30-8:10 pm
(includes chanting, sitting meditation, walking meditation)

Introduction for Newcomers
Mondays: 6:30-7 pm
Please register before your first visit at dresden@kwanumzen.de

The practice in our center costs 5 Euro, donations welcome.

The Zen Center is a room in the Zentralwerk at Riesaer Strasse 32. To get to the Zen Center, walk from the main entrance across the courtyard and behind the house (“Tower D”) on the opposite side. There is the entrance to the staircase. The Zen Center is located on the 2nd floor.

It is also possible to reach the Zen Center via the entrance from the main house. In the main building, keep left and go down the stairs once to get to Tower D. Then just take the stairs up to the 2nd floor.

Zen Day: usually every 2nd Saturday in a month we will host a Zen Day. The exact days you find on “Events”.

For more information and registration please contact dresden@kwanumzen.de

Schedule of a Zen Day at Dresden Zen Center:

6 a.m. – 5 p.m. with sitting meditation, sutra chanting, 108 prostrations, breakfast, lunch

registration here

Do you have any questions about the Zen course? You are welcome to write us to berlin@kwanumzen.de

9 x Thursdays 7:30-9 pm

9 January 2025 – 6 March 2025

online via Zoom, last meeting online in Zen Center Berlin or Dresden (also online possible if you are not in Berlin or Dresden)

language: German and perhaps English if enough English speaking participants register (please contact us before registration)

costs: 90€, reduced 45€ (unemployed, students, very difficult financial situation)

You would like to learn how to meditate and arrive completely within yourself and in the Here and Now? But you are unsure how exactly to do that and what to deal with all the upcoming thoughts, feelings, and distractions? You would like to learn different methods of Zen meditation, try them out under guidance and deepen them in a daily meditation session at home? You would appreciate some exchange about your meditation experience with others and get answers to your questions?

Then our beginners course to Zen meditation might be of interest to you. Starting on 9 January 2025 we will meet 8 times every Thursday 7:30 – 9 pm online via Zoom and learn different types of Zen meditation from a dharma teacher of the Kwan Um School of Zen Germany. Part of this course will be your daily meditation routine at home between the weekly meetings. We suggest about 10-30 minutes. You can meditate alone or together with other participants of the course online, on a self organized basis.

On the 9th Thursday we will meet offline in Zen Center Berlin or in Zen Center Dresden in order to meditate together and get to know each other “in real life”. If you are not based in Berlin or Dresden you can join this meeting also online. The course will be in German. In case of non-German speakers: please contact us before registration (berlin@kwanumzen.de) and ask whether there will be enough English speaking participants as to have an English translation.