Freedom is not given to us by anyone, we have to cultivate it ourselves.
– Thich Nhat Hanh –
2025 Retreat – Schedule
Friday, 25 April
- 7:30am – ZAZEN
– Coffee (breakfast) - SAMU (community work)
– Retreat preparation - Picnic Vegetarian Lunch
– break - 14:30 – Arrival
– Welcome new participants - 15:00 – Introduction to Zazen
(Sitting Meditation) + Kinhin - 16:00 – Walking meditation in the woods + ZAZEN
- 19:00 – Dinner (Rice soup – Guen Mai)
- 20:30 – ZAZEN
(Sunset prostrations + Zazen & Heart Sutra) - 22:15 – Lights out / sleep
Saturday, 26 April
- 6:00am – Wake up / Tea
- 6:30am – ZAZEN
(Sunrise prostrations + Zazen & Heart Sutra) - Gen Mai (breakfast in the dojo)
– coffee (outside) - 9:30 – SAMU
- 11:00 – ZAZEN
– Dharma Sharing
– Hannya Shingyo
– Fuse / Dāna (donation) - 13:00 – Vegetarian lunch
– cleaning and tidying up
– End of retreat
This short Zen retreat (Sesshin) will take place in the Dojo TAI KU AN in Barão S. João and starts on Friday 25 April at 7:30am, or 14.30 with a welcome tea, and ends on Saturday 26 after lunch at 14:30.
The retreat is based on Dāna (Fuse) – a monetary donation, there is no fixed amount and each person contributes according to their conscience.
You can participate in the entire Sesshin and sleep in the Dojo, there is a caravan available in the Dojo, and Monte Rosa a separate Rural Accommodation very close by.
For those who live nearby, you can sleep at home and do a partial retreat, but you must do at least three (3) ZAZEN.
Sesshin is an intensive period of Zen training where we can put our social activities aside and life unfolds around the practice of Zazen, sitting meditation.
ATTENTION the retreat is full!
Registration is now closed.
