Kwan Um School of Zen
Germany
Germany
In the great work of life and death, time will not wait for you.
If you die tomorrow, what kind of body will you get?
Is not all of this of great importance?
Hurry up! Hurry!
Blue sky and green sea
Are the Buddha’s original face.
The sound of the waterfall and the bird’s song
Are the great sutras.
Where are you going?
Watch your step.
Water flows down to the sea.
Clouds float up to the heavens.
Zen Master Seung Sahn
The Berlin Zen Center (Chong Hye Sah) was founded in 1990. It is the head of the Kwan Um School of Zen in Germany and since 2008 head temple of the European Kwan Um School of Zen.
GUIDING TEACHER: Zen Master Gu Ja
9 x Thursdays 7:30-9 pm
9 January – 6 March 2025
online via Zoom, last meeting offline in Zen Center Berlin
maximum of 14 participants
language: German and perhaps English if enough English speaking participants register
costs: 90€, reduced 45€. In case of financial difficulties please contact us: berlin@kwanumzen.de
Questions & registration: berlin@kwanumzen.de
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 January 9th 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 in order to meditate together and get to know each other “in real life”. If you are not based in Berlin you can join this meeting also online.
The Kwan Um Schoof of Zen Germany is a non-profit organization and we mantain us financially with membership fees, income from renting some of our rooms, practice fees and donations.
So we kindly ask you for paying a practice fee of about 5€ each time you come to meditate with us (also morning practice). You can pay in cash or via paypal: kuzsde@gmail.com
Alternatively you can become a member (20€/month. Reduced fee 15€). Members do not pay any practice fee and get a discount on retreats.
Here you can download our membership contract (in German) which you can fill in and send via email to info@kwanumzen.de or you can fill it in on paper in Zen Center Berlin and give it there to us.
At the moment all rooms are occupied. We will inform you here as soon as any room will be available again.
You would like to live in our Zen Center for a while and dedicate yourself to an intense daily Zen practice? We practice Zen together every morning and on Tuesdays and Fridays in the evening as well. Apart from that you can follow your daily routine of studying at university, working in your normal job etc.
The Berlin Zen Center can host up to 5 resident Zen Students. The residents commit to joining morning practice (5.30am – 7.15am, Monday till Friday) and evening practice twice a week (Tuesday and Friday). They also participate in weekend retreats.
The Center is located directly in the city with good transport connection and many shopping facilities. The residents clean the Zen Center regularly.
The guiding teacher of the Berlin Zen Center, Zen Master Gu Ja, does not live in the Zen Center but attends evening practice regularly. Kongan teaching with Zen Master Gu Ja or another teacher takes place every alternate Wednesday and Friday.
For more information, please contact us:
berlin@kwanumzen.de
030 – 46 60 50 90
Or just come along for an introduction to Zen meditation and evening practice in order to get to know us, our style of meditation and the Zen Center – see meditation time schedule above.
By U-Bahn:
Take line 9 to station “Nauener Platz”.
Take the exit “Gottschedstraße” and follow the Reinickendorfer Straße for about 200m; on the left you will find Gottschedstraße.
Gottschedstraße 4 is a former factory site (firm Rotaprint).
Crossing the yard, you will find a high white cross building on the right hand side. The entrance to the Zen Center is at the back of this building.
By car:
Coming from the city motorway A 100, take the exit Seestrasse and go straight until the crossing with the main road Reinickendorfer Strasse. Turn right and follow Reinickendorfer Strasse until you cross Schulstrasse. The next road on the left is Gottschedstrasse.
Coming from the city center: cross Brunnenstrasse/Badstrasse. After passing Pankstrasse take the next fork left into Exerzierstrasse. The next one on the left side is Gottschedstrasse.
A limited number of parking places are available.
E-mail: berlin@kwanumzen.de
Address: Zen Center Berlin, Gottschedstraße 4, Aufgang 5, 13357 Berlin, Deutschland
Phone: (030) 46 60 50 90
Website: www.kwanumzen.de/en/berlin/
In our Newsletter we regularly announce events of the Kwan Um School of Zen Germany via email (in German).
If you wish so, please register here for our Newsletter.
You will find information, photos etc. of the Kwan Um Zen School and the Berlin Zen Center on our Facebook Page.