Events - KUZS Deutschland

Kwan Um School of Zen

Germany

Zen Retreats

Zen Center Berlin: every third Saturday in a month: Sangha Café, 3 – 5 p.m. (informal exchange). NOT in April & June 2025.

22 November 2024, Berlin: Ceremony for the Dead, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

6-8 December 2024, Berlin: Zen Retreat with Zen-Master Gu Ja. Arrival on 6 Dec. until 6 p.m. Registration until 28 November. Further information & registration here

14 December 2024, Dresden: Zen Day, 6 a.m. – 5 p.m.

21 December 2024, Berlin: Sangha Café, 3 – 5 p.m. (informal exchange)

4 January 2025 – 13 April 2025, Spain, Poland and Slovakia: winter Kyol Che of the Kwan Um School of Zen Europe. Further information & registration: https://www.kwanumeurope.org/wkc2025/

9 January 2025 – 6 March 2025, online & Berlin: online Zen Course for beginners. Information & Registration here.

11 January 2025, Berlin: Sangha Zen Day, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

8 February 2025, Berlin: Zen Day with Zen Master Ji Kwang, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

8 March 2025, Berlin: Sangha Zen Day, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

12 April 2025, Berlin: Zen Hiking Day, 10 a.m. – about 3 p.m.

30 April – 7 May, Berlin: one-week Zen-Retreat with Zen Master Gu Ja, Arrival on 30 April until 6 p.m.

7 June 2025, Berlin: Sangha Zen Day, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

21 June 2025, Berlin: Sangha Party in Schöneiche, 3 – 8 p.m.

Registration & Information:

retreats in Berlin: information: berlin@kwanumzen.de & 030-46 60 50 90. Registration: follow the link below the retreat announcement.

retreats in Köln: koeln@kwanumzen.de

retreats in Dresden: dresden@kwanumzen.de

new Zen course for beginners (online): 9 January 2025 – 6 March 2025

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 offline in Zen Center Berlin (also online possible if you are not in Berlin)

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 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 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.

weekly meditation practice – online & offline

Zoom link to online meditation

password: Kwanum

chanting book

Mon 7 – 8:30 pm (Zen Center Dresden)

Tue 7 – 9 pm (Zen Center Berlin) online only on demand – please write latest 1 day before to matthias@kwanumzen.de

Fri 6:30 – 9:20 pm (Zen Center Berlin) online only on demand – please write latest 1 day before to matthias@kwanumzen.de

Sun 10-11:45 (Zen Group Hamburg)

for offline meditation: for further information please check Centers / Groups

Kongan Interviews online with Arne Schaefer JDPSN: 1st & 3rd Monday every month

Dharma speech: 1st & 3rd Tuesday every Month

Kongan Interviews only OFFline: 2nd & 4th Friday every month

counseling Interviews only OFFline with Senior Dharma Teachers: 1st or 3rd Friday every month

introduction to Zen meditation

If you come to one of our Centers for the first time we invite you to have an introduction to our style of Zen meditation first. Please view Centers / Groups for more information.

costs

The Kwan Um Schoof of Zen Germany is a non-profit organization and we maintain 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 and for Zen Center Berlin also 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 to the contact person of your local sangha (see the site “groups”). You can also fill it in on paper in your Zen Center and give it to the abbot of your group.