Learn ChanMeditation in Europe
In Madrid, Lisbon & Hamburg.
Learn Chan Buddhist Meditation from American Mahayana
In Madrid, Lisbon & Hamburg.
Led by Venerable XianAn (known as HyunAn Sunin in Korea.)
These workshops and retreats are open to everyone regardless religions, ages and cultural backgrounds and taught in English with a live translator in your local language.
Join our 2-hour Chan meditation workshops and 3-day intensive retreat in Europe. In 2-hour workshop, you can learn the fundamentals, postures and techniques of meditation. If you are more ambitious, join our 3-day intensive retreat in Lisbon. In this retreat, you will have an opportunity to push further by participating multiple sitting sessions and ask questions during Dharma talks. All those classes are free except the meals and accomodation for the retreat.
If you are interested in joining us, please fill out the contact form below and our local volunteers will contact you back for more details.
In Madrid, Spain (May 3~5)
https://es.chanpureland.org/inscripcioacuten.html
In Lisbon Portugal (May 10-12) * 3-day intensitve retreat
* The program details will be announced soon.
https://forms.gle/VfjBYm2Hysm8aKGx7
In Hamburg, Germany (May 17~19)
TBA
Why Chan meditation?
We often associate meditation with relaxation or feeling good. Meditation can be a lot more than that. If you don’t seek the comforts or peace from your practice, you will improve much further and experience much greater results. That’s why it’s important for you to understand that you can always improve more in your spiritual practice. Only hard work and consistent effort will produce genuine results in meditation training. What does it mean?
Chan meditation is a very effective form of your spiritual practice if you want something more than an easy fix. When you make progress in meditation, you will be much healthier, faster, calmer and more productive. Not only that, you will be more creative and efficient. You will discover yourself with better relationships with others and solve problems much wiser. There are so many more benefits that you can gain which cannot even be all described.
What is Chan 禪 Meditation
Chan(or Seon in Korean) is one of the most powerful forms of meditation. Chan teaches participants how to increase concentration power, also known as samadhi power. In this training, the results are solid and concrete. By increasing samadhi, the mind naturally becomes much more relaxed and peaceful and the body becomes much healthier.
Chan is an ancient meditation that is a central practice of Mahayana Buddhism. Chan utilizes many secret methods, most of which cannot be found in print, especially in the West. These techniques have been handed down from Master to disciples in an oral tradition that has existed for more than 2,500 years, since the time of Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
Program details: 2-hour workshop
- Basic instructions: postures, various methods of meditation, etc.
- Silent meditation (or sit)
- Dharma talk and Q&A
Why free?
Our Chan students have experienced great benefits for themselves and saw the transformation of their lives from this practice. So now they wish to share this wonderful experience with others. Therefore, many offered to help organize those classes and support our sangha members (Buddhist monks and nuns) to teach the classes. Now, they wish that more people can encounter this wonderful practice in Europe and improve their lives.
What to expect?
You will receive simple and direct instructions during this 2-hour workshop so that you can try the practice with the instructor. After this workshop, if you still wish to continue this practice, you may join our free online classes. During these classes, you can freely ask questions and discuss difficulties from your daily practice. Then the instructor will be able to provide answers and solutions that are more specific for you.
The BLI's instructors
These classes are taught by Buddhist monks and nuns from Bodhi Light International (BLI). BLI is a non-profit religious organization dedicated to benefitting all living beings through the teachings of Mahayana Buddhism.
The founder of BLI, Chan Master YongHua is an American Buddhist monk currently residing in California. He has been training over 20 monastic disciples with different nationalities and ages. And he also has a great number of lay people followers from all over the world. Although his disciples have very diverse backgrounds, they share a common passion for cultivation, hoping to realize their fullest potential by devoting their lives to the service of others. BLI’s instructors are trained to provide individualized guidance so that each person can find the most appropriate methods for their current situation or level through these classes. BLI’s instructors have been trained to teach the new generation or the Westerners unlike the traditional or older Buddhist style.
Ven. XianAn (known as “HyunAn Sunim” in Korea)
Venerable XianAn is a Korean American Buddhist nun who’s a long disciple of Master YongHua. She started learning Chan from Master YongHua at Lu Mountain Temple in 2012 in the US. At that time, she was a young entrepreneur with a start-up business. And Chan quickly became her core strength to make her business very successful. With her further improvement in Chan, she realized that Chan is such a wonderful and fundamental skill not only for her career but also all other aspects of her life. In 2019, she became a Buddhist nun under Master YongHua and returned to her motherland, Korea. Since then, she’s been teaching American Chan in Korea and became very well-known. She is also a published author and Buddhist radio DJ.
