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Easter Sesshin

SHORIN-JI (GPS: N 40 09.394 + W 5 25.145) Shorin-ji Templo Zen, Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres, España

"Interdependence is what unites all existences. No one, nothing is separated from the totality. It is like a movement between all the elements of the cosmos. If this movement stops, it leads to the reduction of the elements, the fixation in an inert state, without movement, and the consequent disappearance. The law of interdependence allows...

70€

ZEN PRACTICE INITIATION CLASS – MADRID

Mokusan Dojo Calle de la Magdalena, 4, 2º Izq., Madrid

Mokusan Dojo holds a free initiation class to Zen practice, i.e. Zazen, aimed at those who visit a Zen dojo for the first time. Zazen is the posture of the Buddha’s Awakening. It is necessary to receive advice from an experimented practitioner in order to attain the correct posture. Very precise instructions about body, breathing...

Free

FEBRUARY SESSHIN

SHORIN-JI (GPS: N 40 09.394 + W 5 25.145) Shorin-ji Templo Zen, Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres, España

Our practice has mountains and valleys but always continues and February begins with a sesshin. Some things captivate us and others escape our attention. The illusion that endless engrossment in daily activities, related to work and leisure, will lead us somewhere, will lead us far, it is out there. Yet out there there’s also the...

70€

Winter Camp

SHORIN-JI (GPS: N 40 09.394 + W 5 25.145) Shorin-ji Templo Zen, Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres, España

Barbara Kosen and her Sangha gather at Shorin-ji for the Winter Camp, the traditional end-of-year retreat, from 27 December 2023 to 5 January 2024. On this occasion, Bárbara Kosen has asked her successors Gema Kyuho and Daniel Ungo to take charge of direction and teaching. 27th: Arrival in the evening. Opening dinner around 21:00h. 28th:...

230€

Buddha’s Satori Sesshin

SHORIN-JI (GPS: N 40 09.394 + W 5 25.145) Shorin-ji Templo Zen, Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres, España

 The spirit of the Great Sage of India has been transmitted intimately, directly, secretly from the East to the West, secretly from East to West. (Sekito Kisen, Sandokai). Eko - Gojushichi Butsu - is the complete recitation of the names of the buddhas of the past and of the Indian, Chinese and Japanese patriarchs, up...

150€

ZAZEN PLUS – MOKUSAN DOJO

Mokusan Dojo Calle de la Magdalena, 4, 2º Izq., Madrid

  Like an fool, like a rock, a high mountain of which the top cannot be discovered, a deep ocean of which we cannot perceive the bottom; we look without considering relationships and, beyond the clouds, the eyes become bright. Keizan, Zazen Yojinki   Zazen Plus means: more zazen. Intensive morning of zazen at the...

15€

SAMU IN NOVEMBER

SHORIN-JI (GPS: N 40 09.394 + W 5 25.145) Shorin-ji Templo Zen, Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres, España

During zazen we return to the sanctuary of the body. Its immobility and the fact of being complete, everything is present. The whole body is sitting. The two eyes are sitting, the two thumbs are sitting, the breathing with the belly is sitting; The calm mind is sitting. Immobile body, immobile mind.   Barbara Kosen,...

15€/per day

T.D.Z.A. General Assembly

SHORIN-JI (GPS: N 40 09.394 + W 5 25.145) Shorin-ji Templo Zen, Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres, España

Dear friends of the Way. We hereby summon you to the General Assembly of the Deshimaru Taisen Zen Association to be held at ShorinJi during the Autumn Sesshin on Saturday, October 14th at 17:00. The topics to be discussed will be: Renewal of the annual membership fee as well as new memberships. Election or renewal...

AUTUMN SESSHIN

SHORIN-JI (GPS: N 40 09.394 + W 5 25.145) Shorin-ji Templo Zen, Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres, España

Through the missionary's door, the absolute traditional school must be certified, But heaven and earth, north and south, the whole country is full of hatred and animosity. Who can know what happens when father and son meet? In front of the old mirror no light is needed. (Master Daichi) Daichi did not receive the formal...

120€

ZAZEN PLUS

Mokusan Dojo Calle de la Magdalena, 4, 2º Izq., Madrid

When you grab the heart of zazen you are like the tiger that goes into the mountain, you are like the dragon that plunges into the water.   Dogen, Fukanzazengi     Zazen Plus means: more zazen.   Intensive morning zazen at the Mokusan Dojo in Madrid on Saturday 30th September at 08:00 directed by...

15€

Sesshin Temple Kosen Shin Ji Cuba

Kosen Shin Ji Calle Real #70 e/ Jardín y Final, Reparto Lechuga, Managua. Municipio Arroyo Naranjo., Habana, Cuba

Moving your feet forward here and now there is neither near nor far. The slightest doubt separates a great distance like a mountain that is far from a river. (Sekito Kisen) Sesshin with Master Michel Tai Hei from July 8th to 17th in the Zen temple of Kosen Shin Ji in Havana (Cuba). Michel Tai...

KESA SESSHIN

SHORIN-JI (GPS: N 40 09.394 + W 5 25.145) Shorin-ji Templo Zen, Villanueva de la Vera, Cáceres, España

    The kesa is zazen. It is our skin in zazen. It is our flesh in zazen, our bones and our marrow. It is all that constitutes the zazen that we practice. In the zazen that we practice there is not only a pure side, there also exists and appears in zazen the whole...

70€