THE EUROPEAN ZEN SUMMER RETREAT PROGRAM 2020

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Winter
Kyol Che 2023

Bori Sa, Spain & Wu Bong Sa, Poland

The European Winter Retreat Program 2023

Our retreats will be held offline only this year. Timeline below will show you the correct way on the journey to your True Nature.

Using your compass of zen, you can travel without coming and going from one Zen Center to another through nine different European countries.

We have over 40 years of experience in organizing intensive silent retreats in the tradition of Korean zen brought from the East by Zen Master Seung Sahn.

Scholarships! If you are a School member with financial difficulties or long term Sangha volunteer, a scholarship may be available for you to attend. Please visit our Scholarship page for more information.

Winter Kyol Che Map

Dates & Venues

Poland, Wu Bong Sa
29.01 - 29.02

Wu Bong Sa, Warsaw, Poland

29.01 – 29.02

Join us for a 4 week meditation retreat in our beautiful Polish Zen center Wu Bong Sa, located in Warsaw. We’ll practice sitting, bowing, chanting, working and eating together in complete silence. Possibility of sitting the retreat for weeks, entrances and exits on Sundays. Scholarships are available.

Teachers:



29.01.2023 – 05.02.2023 : Joeng Hye SSN



05.02 – 12.02 : Gu Ja SSN



12.02 – 19.02 : Bogumila Malinowska JDPSN



19.02 – 26.02 : Joeng Hye SSN

Contact: wubongsa@gmail.com |  Check our website for more details…
Spain, Bori Sa:
08.01 - 1.04
Bori Sa, Alta Garrotxa, Spain

08.01 – 1.04

Join us for a 3 month meditation retreat in the mountains. Bori Sa is located amidst the magnificent scenery of Alta Garrotxa Natural Park. We’ll practice sitting, bowing, chanting, working and eating together in complete silence. Possibility of sitting the retreat for weeks, entrances and exits on Saturdays. Scholarships are available.

Teachers:



08.01 – 14.01 : Arne Schaefer JDPSN
15.01 – 21.01 : Arne Schaefer JDPSN
22.01 – 28.01 : Arne Schaefer JDPSN
29.01 – 04.02 : Arne Schaefer JDPSN



05.02 – 11.02 : Knud Rosenmayr JDPSN (online)



12.02 – 18.02 : Koen Vermeulen JDPSN



19.02 – 25.02 : Barbara Pardo JDPSN (intensive week)
26.02 – 04.03 : Barbara Pardo JDPSN



05.03 – 11.03 : Tolo Cantarellas JDPSN



12.03 – 18.03: Hyon Ja SSN (online)



19.03 – 25.03 : Bon Shim SSN
26.03 – 01.04 : Bon Shim SSN

Contact: boricentrozen@hotmail.com, dokan108@gmail.com | Check our website for more details…

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Poland, Wu Bong Sa
29.01 - 26.02

Wu Bong Sa, Warsaw, Poland

29.01 – 26.02

Join us for a 4 week meditation retreat in our beautiful Polish Zen center Wu Bong Sa, located in Warsaw. We’ll practice sitting, bowing, chanting, working and eating together in complete silence. Possibility of sitting the retreat for weeks, entrances and exits on Sundays. Scholarships are available.

Teachers:



29.01.2023 – 05.02.2023 : Joeng Hye SSN



05.02 – 12.02 : Gu Ja SSN



12.02 – 19.02 : Bogumila Malinowska JDPSN



19.02 – 26.02 : Joeng Hye SSN

Contact: wubongsa@gmail.com |  Check our website for more details…

Poland, Wu Bong Sa
Spain, Bori Sa
08.01 - 1.04
Bori Sa, Alta Garrotxa, Spain

08.01 – 1.04

Join us for a 3 month meditation retreat in the mountains. Bori Sa is located amidst the magnificent scenery of Alta Garrotxa Natural Park. We’ll practice sitting, bowing, chanting, working and eating together in complete silence. Possibility of sitting the retreat for weeks, entrances and exits on Saturdays. Scholarships are available.

Teachers:



08.01 – 14.01 : Arne Schaefer JDPSN
15.01 – 21.01 : Arne Schaefer JDPSN
22.01 – 28.01 : Arne Schaefer JDPSN
29.01 – 04.02 : Arne Schaefer JDPSN



05.02 – 11.02 : Knud Rosenmayr JDPSN (online)



12.02 – 18.02 : Koen Vermeulen JDPSN



19.02 – 25.02 : Barbara Pardo JDPSN (intensive week)
26.02 – 04.03 : Barbara Pardo JDPSN



05.03 – 11.03 : Tolo Cantarellas JDPSN



12.03 – 18.03: Hyon Ja SSN (online)



19.03 – 25.03 : Bon Shim SSN
26.03 – 01.04 : Bon Shim SSN

Contact: boricentrozen@hotmail.com, dokan108@gmail.com | Check our website for more details…

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What is a Zen Retreat ?

Zen Retreats are a traditional Korean Zen meditation retreat held in temples and monasteries. The experience of a whole group immersed in silence, looking deeply into the question “Who am I?” can change your life forever.

Why Join the Retreat ?

In a long retreat, we can easily see that our habits do not need to control our lives. That we can live our lives in a more simple way, in a more joyful way, with wisdom. This wisdom is a door to liberation, and it is something we can give back to this world.

Covid-19 and safety

Each retreat will provide more specific details regarding local and national CV-19 situation. General KUSZE pandemic recommendations can be read here. Please bring your sleeping bags, towels, socks, which we use in the Dharma Room, loose trousers reaching your ankles for sitting meditation. All participants are obliged to arrive with valid medical insurance.

Members talk about Zen Retreats

Kyolche can vary depending on a person and throughout years of my practice it has been all. In the beginning it used to be a challenge for body and mind showing that I am capable of going beyond my own limitations and not moving (not leaving!) regardless of the mind weather – no matter if my leg hurt, my roommates were snoring or being hurtful, the schedule was harsh, my own feelings leaned towards worthlessness, envy nor even bliss. Then it changed into deeply transformative experiences of finding energy in stillness and presence of something eternal in simple things. And lately it’s been mostly a peaceful, bright, space-like, somehow transparent experience of easing into every day life filled with sitting, eating, sleeping, drinking tea, working in the kitchen, looking at friends. Who knows what comes next?

Senior Dharma TeacherWarsaw Zen Center

It is hard to describe what happens when you sit a week long retreat. I can see my mind at work and I see good things and bad things appear, which may not always be pleasant. At the end of the week something has shifted and my mind has become a bit clearer. It is a subtle change, but it has a positive impact on how I respond to everyone around me and to daily life. This is the reason why I will be back to sit another week of Kyolche when I have a chance and I wish that more people will share this experience with me.

VeroniqueOnline Sangha

Sound in the morning. The bell and moktak right after. Going down from the attic in the morning requires at least a bit of non sleep. Cold water touching face in the bathroom helps to wake up even more without thinking what awakening is. Everything is not to think. I have read “Confessions of a buddhist atheist”. These couple of days showed me what one feels, when the letters forming words in the book become the experience beyond any wording. It has been three days since I left the retreat, but I don’t know, I don’t know how to understand as soon as I look at it more clearly. But I’m still there. It’s like a dose of stillness applied straight into the blood. Moktak. Bowing, sitting, chanting, meals, work, kitchen, forest walk. In the evening you feel every inch of your body, you close your eyes and it’s already dawn. I know for sure I want more. But I can’t say anything more for now.

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Poland, Wu Bong Sa

Spain, Bori Sa:

Poland, Wu Bong Sa

Poland, Wu Bong Sa

Spain, Bori Sa

Spain, Bori Sa

What is a Zen Retreat ?

Why Join the Retreat ?

Covid-19 and safety

Members talk about Zen Retreats

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