Advanced Class, Taipei and Tainan (Taiwan)
The Advanced Class is designed for practitioners who are dedicated to advancing their Zen practice to uncover the nature of self.
The Advanced Class is an ongoing 3-session course. The first two weeks’ classes meet at 9am–10am on Saturdays, and the 3rd week’s class is a monthly daylong class on Sundays from 9am–4 pm. Students will read Zen doctrines to build up the right view (correct concepts) of Zen and Zen meditation, to ensure they are working on the right track of Zen meditation. During 2019, Shifu (Teacher/Master) Linda or Shifu Jeremy will guide practitioners through two to four sections of the Zen doctrine “Monk Boshan’s Advice for Investigating Zen” in this weekly class.
Students in the Advanced Class are required to attend the monthly daylong retreat and semiannual 2-day retreats, and highly recommended to attend the annual 5-or-more-days retreats. Students are also required to participate in the Center’s events and the Center’s operating jobs.
The Advanced Class is an ongoing course. Students are highly recommended to take the course continuously to advance their Zen practice. After learning and practicing Zen meditation in the center for six months, students may apply for discipleship and join the Disciple Training program.
Tuition Free
We provide tuition-free meditation classes, but we do ask that you consider providing a donation. The None Zen Center is run entirely by donations. It is the loving gifts from our teachers, students, and friends which create a tuition-free learning environment for Zen meditation, and so will your generosity surely pass on the same love to others.
We recommend a NT$800 donation for each set of the three-session Advanced Class provided in our Taipei Center, but donations of greater and lesser sums are all appreciated. No one will be turned away.
Please feel free to contact us at taipei@nonezencenter.org if you are interested in joining the Advanced Class or Disciple Program.
The class will be held on the following dates.
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Saturdays 9am-10am | Class Dates |
Reading: Monk Boshan’s Advice for Investigating Zen Volume 1, Chapter 1 (50 sections) Volume 2, Chapter 2 (10 sections) Volume 2, Chapter 3 (10 sections) |
| TWST 44 |
1/15, 1/13 (Sun 9am-4pm) 1/20 |
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| TWST 45 | 2/16 |
V1.1.1 A firm determination to break through the arising-ceasing mind V1.1.2 The essential point is to generate the doubt sensation V1.1.3 Stick the word death on your forehead |
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2/24 (Sun 9am-10am) |
V1.1.4 The most worrisome thing is dwelling in the state of quietude V1.1.5 Do not engage in worldly concerns V1.1.6 Stir up the world |
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3/10 (Sun 9am-4pm) |
V1.1.7 Why worry about not being alive? V1.1.8 Once arising a single thought, you deviate from the Dharma V1.1.9 Like a cat wanting to capture a rat |
| TWST 46 | 3/16 |
V1.1.10 Practice a day, progress a day V1.1.11 Should not surmise koans wantonly V1.1.12 Investigating Zen by yourself until you have no doubt! |
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3/24 (Sun 9am – 4pm) |
V1.1.13 What is stillness? V1.1.14 Should not get involved in worldly concerns V1.1.15 Taking notes will obstruct the progress of investigating Zen |
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V1.1.16 Drawing inferences, you turn far away from the Way V1.1.17 Never believe that you do not need to investigating the Truth V1.1.18 Eagerness is the most powerful word |
| TWST 47 | 4/13 |
V1.1.19 When the huatou (doubt) emerges in front of you V1.1.20 The most worrisome thing is writing poems and articles V1.1.21 The worst misleading words |
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4/20 (Sun 9am – 4pm) |
V1.1.22 How would you go blank when the huatou (doubt) emerges in front of you? V1.1.23 Add more doubt on top of your doubt V1.1.27 Work on this “don’t-know-how-to-work”! V1.1.24 You should not be waiting for enlightenment |
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Zen Party, Taipei 4/27 (Sat 11am – 1pm) |
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Disciple Training Workshop (disciples only) 4/27 – 5/5 |
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Zen Party, Tainan 5/4 (Sat 11am – 1pm) |
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| TWST 48 | 5/11 （cancelled) |
V1.1.25 Be tight, be right, be impermeable, be open-minded V1.1.26 You should not attach to any other thought |
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V1.1.27 Work on this “don’t-know-how-to-work”! V1.1.28 Until there is nowhere to use your mind V1.1.29 Clever mind is akin to the food-to-be-avoid |
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5/26 (Sun 9am – 4pm) |
V1.1.30 As strong as an iron bat
V1.1.31 Do worry about not knowing mistakes V1.1.32 You should not avoid the hustle and bustle and approach for quietude |
| TWST 49 | 6/1 |
V1.1.33 The most worrisome thing is taking intellectual activities as the efforts of working on Buddhahood V1.1.34 The place where the mood can go is perished V1.1.35 Keep working even when you don’t know how to work |
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| 6/15 |
V1.1.36 Use your mind only on one koan V1.1.37 You only know that you haven’t broken through the doubt sensation V1.1.38 Like one man fighting against ten thousands enemies |
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6/23 (Sun 9am – 4pm) |
V1.1.39 Do not teach others when you haven’t broken through the doubt V1.1.40 Dare not slack off, morning or night V1.1.41 Do not take lightness and ease as enlightenment |
| TWST 50 | 7/6 |
V1.1.42 Investigate the Truth stubbornly and rigidly V1.1.43 Take it as nothing, you would become a man of nothing V1.1.44 Your meditation should not be like striking stones for the glint |
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V1.1.45 You should not use your intellectual mind to surmise the Truth V1.1.46 Do not take the Truth for granted when you raise your doubting question V1.1.47 Never ask others to utter the Truth |
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7/21 (Sun 9am – 4pm) |
V1.1.48 Investigating Zen is not a matter of chanting koan V1.1.49 You should not lose the right view for any single moment V1.1.50 Add eagerness on top of your eagerness |
| TWST 51 | 8/3 | V2.2.1 |
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| 8/10 | V2.2.2 |
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8/18 (Sun 9am – 4pm) | V2.2.3 |
| TWST 52 | 8/31 | V2.2.4 |
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| 9/7 | V2.2.5 |
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9/22 (Sun 9am – 4pm) | V2.2.6 |
| TWST 53 | 9/28 | V2.2.7 |
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| 10/5 | V2.2.8 |
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Zen Party, Taipei 10/19 (Sat 11am – 1pm) |
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Zen Party, Tainan 10/26 (Sat 11am – 1pm) |
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| TWST 54 | 7-day retreat 11/3 – 11/10, Taiwan check for the Retreat Kit |
V2.3.3 – V2.3.7 |
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V2.2.9 V2.2.10 |
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11/24 (Sun 9am – 4pm) | V2.3.1 |
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| 11/30 | V2.3.2 |
| TWST 55 | 12/7 | V2.3.8 |
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| 12/14 | V2.3.9 |
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| 12/22 (Sun 9am – 4pm) | V2.3.10 |
