Gateless Gate Zengroup

Details of events

⃝ Please bring the tool you want to sit on each time you come. This can be a zafu made to your size or a/some pillow that holds you.


⃝ Please put something under these, e.g. Yoga mat or socalled “zabuton click here is used under the zafu or pillow.

⃝ We can provide a chair on site, when you finish, please put it back. The point is to keep your back straight (if possible) during zazen. Zazen=sitting meditation.

⃝ We do zazen, you can read about it under the keywords zazen, kinhin, Buddhist meditation. Our zazen is not different from zazen of other dojos.
⃝ It is important to bow when you are entering and exiting the dojo, because you are bowing towards the Buddha.

Schedule
⃝ We start at 7:30 p.m., we sit in zazen for about 25-30 minutes, then we do kinhin (walking meditation) for 5-10 minutes and then also do zazen again for 25-30 minutes.

⃝ Please not to delay, as you can enter on next event only. You can enter until 7.30 pm this day.

⃝ We can do socalled sesshins (longer meetings) some weeks later when we would be able to form a group of 5-10 people.

⃝ Donations are accepted but optional.


⃝ If you have any questions, please ask them on this comment panel will be answered in 1-2 days.