Beginner’s Zen Class
We are None Zen Center, a community to advance your Zen practice. At the None Zen Center, meditation practice is not about looking for relaxation, tranquility, or stillness; it is about knowing yourself better to uncover your true nature.
Beginner’s Zen Class introduces basic Zen concepts and three meditation skills. Led by the Center’s certified instructors, we provide tuition-free Beginner’s Class monthly on Saturday mornings from 9 – 11:30 am. You may find the in-person and Zoom classes in San Jose Center (California, US) and Taiwan Center (Taipei and Tainan, Taiwan), and Zoom classes for the European time zones (Resuming in 2023 summer). You may also find on-demand video classes in our Online Zen School. Check for the class calendar on each Center’s class webpage and join the course at your best-suiting time!
San Jose Center Beginner’s Class (California, US)
- In-person and Zoom classes
- Saturdays 9:15 – 11:30 am (monthly)
Taipei and Tainan Center Beginner’s Class (TW)
- In-person and Zoom classes
- English and Chinese courses
- Saturdays 9- 11:15 am (monthly)
Online Zen School (Global)
- Videos on-demand
- English and Chinese courses
Weekly Sitting Session and Monthly Retreat
Weekly sitting Session is to help meditators create the regular sitting habit and advance their Zen practice. It is led by the Center’s founding masters, Shifu (master or teacher) Linda Huang or Shifu Jeremy Wei. The tuition-free 45-minute session starts with a short lecture, followed by a 15-to-25 min sitting meditation practice, and concluded with a group sharing.
Monthly Half-day Retreat is to advance meditators’ Zen practice with intensive training. It is led by the Center’s founding masters, Shifu (master or teacher) Linda Huang or Shifu Jeremy Wei. Shifus will give an opening lecture, lead sitting sessions, and provide group sharing and Q&A time. There will be session breaks, and each sub-sitting session will take about 15 to 25 minutes. All meditation classes and retreats provided by None Zen Center are tuition-free.
Check for the Weekly Sitting Session and Monthly Retreat calendar on each Center’s class webpage and join the course at your best-suiting time!
San Jose Center Sitting Sessions and Monthly Retreats (California, US)
- In-person and Zoom sessions
- Tuesdays 8 – 8:45 pm for Weekly Zoom Sitting Session
- Saturdays 9:15 -11:30 am for Monthly Half-day Retreat
Manchester Center Sitting Sessions and Monthly Retreats (UK. We will resume classes for European time zones in 2023 summer)
- Zoom sessions only
Taipei and Tainan Center Sitting Sessions (Taiwan)
- In-person and Zoom sessions
- English and Chinese courses
- Tuesdays 8 – 8:45 pm for Weekly Zoom Sitting Session
- Saturdays 9 -11:30 am for Monthly Half-day Retreat
Annual Retreats
We provide annual 5-to-10-day intensive meditation training to advance meditators’ Zen practice. Like other classes in the Center, the Zen retreats are also tuition-free. However, practitioners need to pay for in-person retreat fees to cover, majorly, the bed and board. Emails us at friend@nonezencenter.org if you have any questions regarding the retreat.
Watch the 2021 Retreat Introducing video.
Watch the 2019 Retreat Video
Watch the 2018 Retreat Video
None Zen Center
We are None Zen Center, a community to advance your Zen practice. At the None Zen Center, Zen meditation is not about looking for relaxation, tranquility, or stillness; it is about knowing yourself better to uncover your true nature. By practicing Zen meditation, you are uncovering your self, revealing your true nature, just as Gautama Buddha did thousands of years ago.
The Center’s founding masters, Shifu (master or teacher) Linda Huang and Shifu Jeremy Wei, received Dharma Transmission from Zen master Guoru (Chn. 果如) and, therefore, inherited the teaching of Linji (Chn. 臨濟, Jpn. Rinzai), Caodong (Chn. 曹洞, Jpn. Soto), and Dharma Drum (Chn. 法鼓) lineages. We started our first meditation center in Taipei, Taiwan in 2013. In 2015, we found our San Jose Center in California, USA, and, two years later, the third meditation site in Tainan, Taiwan in December 2017. To provide our meditation service to the global community, we began the Online Zen School with on-demand video classes since 2019. And from February 2020, we started to provide Zen classes in Manchester, UK.
Our San Jose, Manchester, and Taiwan (Taipei and Tainan) Centers are three independent organizations. San Jose Center is a US-based 501(C)3 non-profit organization (EIN:47-5579819), Taiwan Center is a TW-based non-profit organization (registered no. 108年法登社字111號), and Manchester Center is a registered charitable incorporated organization (CIO) in the UK (registered charity no. 1190661). We provide Zen meditation courses for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners. All meditation classes provided in the Centers are tuition-free, and all are welcome to join us to step into the journey of uncovering self-nature.
San Jose Center (California, US)
For a more spacious class room, we have moved our meditation classes to Willow Glen Community Center at 2175 Lincoln Ave, San Jose, CA 95125 since 2023. Find San Jose Class Calendar and sign up for the tuition-free meditation classes.
Manchester Center (UK)
We will resume meditation classes for the European time zones in August 2023.
Taipei Center 台北禪社 (TW)
241-2 Jinghua Street, Daan Dist., Taipei 106, Taiwan
（Chn. 台北市大安區106金華街241-2號）
Find San Jose Class Calendar and sign up for the tuition-free meditation classes.
Tainan International Zen House 台南國際參禪學舍 (TW)
199 Youai Street, Floor 4, Zhongxi Dist., Tainan 700, Taiwan
（Chn. 台南市中西區700友愛街199號4樓）
Online Zen School (Global, registered under San Jose Center)
We provide on-demand video classes to serve the global Zen community.
None Zen Center 無有禪社 