Two Day Koan Intensive
Friday March 19 to Sunday March 21
An online Zen meditation retreat in English
with Frank De Waele Roshi
A koan is a contemplative Zen question. By allowing the koan to work on you, it can evoke your own non-conceptual wisdom.
In the teachings (teisho) during this retreat, Frank Roshi will clarify various aspects of koan study through concrete instructions and examples. Among other things, he will discuss the specific meditative use of koan during and outside of meditation, as well as what it means to ‘present a koan’. Three times a day there will be the opportunity for koan interview (dokusan), i.e. a short personal exchange with the teacher around one’s koan practice.
This intensive is both for students working with koan, as well as for beginners who want to start with this amazing practice.
From Friday March 19 (4pm)
through Sunday March 21 (1pm)
[times are Central European Time (CET) , UTC plus 1 hour].
We will get together online via Zoom four times a day. The sesshin is set up around five practices: sitting (zazen) and walking meditation (kinhin), liturgy, teaching (teisho) and the koan interviews with the teacher (dokusan).
Participants register for the weekend and follow the program according to their own possibilities.
Everyone is welcome. The virtual retreat is open and accessible to all practitioners and friends of the Zen Sangha, regardless of their experience with meditation, koan, Buddhism or Zen.
This will be our thirteenth online Zen retreat and former participants have expressed the sense of intimacy and resonance of our digital format. The consistent schedule of the sesshin creates a deep, quiet container for meditation, nourishing awareness throughout the day. We connect ‘beyond the internet’ and support each other in whole-hearted online practice.
If you are new to Zoom or online conferencing tools, please do not let technology be a barrier. We have sangha members ready to support registered participants with technology questions, concerns, and issues before and during the sesshin.
Feel free to reach out at registratie@zensangha.be
the well-known koan ‘Mu’ by Maezumi Roshi
How to participate?
For this retreat we use the simple and user-friendly Zoom. There is no need to register with Zoom.
If you are registered for the online sesshin, we will mail you the correct Zoom links for the different sessions of the retreat on Thursday March 18th.
Click on the link a few minutes before the session and you’re with us!
Sign up now and join!.
Please note
On a tablet or smartphone, however, an app must be downloaded:
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id546505307
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.zoom.videomeetings
If you click on the link of the meeting above, the Zoom App will start automatically. After filling in your name you can join the meeting.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT
Participation fee
for the whole two day retreat: € 75,-
Registration
To register, please use the online registration form
After registering, make your payment of € 75,- to the Zen Sangha bank account.
Please indicate clearly ‘koan intensive March 2021’ and your OWN name.
Only upon receiving your payment is your registration valid, which will be confirmed by mail.
Bank account Zen Sangha
IBAN number: BE81 8901 5424 8724
BIC code: VDSPBE91
For questions or more information, please contact registratie@zensangha.be
Schedule of the day
7am opening of the day & zen meditation (zazen)
7.40am walking meditation (kinhin)
7.50am zazen
8.20am kinhin
8.30am zazen until 9am
11.30am zazen
12am zen teaching (teisho) until 1pm
4pm zazen
4.30pm kinhin
4.40pm zazen
5.10pm sutra chanting till 5.30pm
7.45pm zazen
8.15pm kinhin
8.25pm zazen
8.55pm four vows & closing of the day
Frank De Waele Roshi, a qualified Zen teacher in the White Plum Soto Zen tradition of the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi, is a Dharma successor of both Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi and Bernie Glassman Roshi. Frank Roshi lives in Ghent (Belgium) at the Zen Sangha zendo. He works fulltime as a Zen teacher in residence offering training to his lay practice community. He has led international retreats in Germany, France, Finland, Poland and Italy.
Liturgical texts
Click on the title to open these pdf
