Retreats
The retreat schedule is fixed in advance and does not change while the event is under way. Below is our “standard version”.
A four-minute video shows what such a day looks like:
Schedule
Thursday
- – arrival
- – dinner
- – opening
- – zazen-kinhin-zazen
- lights out
Friday and Saturday
- wake-up call
- – zazen
- – breakfast
- – samu (manual work)
- – zazen-kinhin-zazen
- – break
- – talk and discussion
- – zazen
- – lunch
- – free time
- – zazen-kinhin-zazen
- – break
- – talk and discussion
- – zazen
- – dinner
- – free time
- – zazen-kinhin-zazen
- lights out
Sunday
- wake-up call
- – zazen
- – breakfast
- – samu
- – zazen-kinhin-zazen
- – break
- – talk and discussion
- – zazen
- – lunch
- – free time
- – zazen-kinhin-zazen
- – closing
- – clean-up of the venue
- departure
A short video with music also catches the mood of a retreat:
Retreat in the keywords
experimentA retreat, called in Zen a sesshin, is a concentrated few days of living quietly and in a settled way, away from the pressure of home and work. It is not a retreat from the world into a peaceful hideaway but hard work, a kind of training in managing ourselves; doing things in the common way keeps it simple.
The keywords right under it✦ Show in the night sky