Half-day and Annual Retreat, Taipei
Half-day Retreats are designed for students in the Training Class and Disciple Program, and aim to deepen students’ Zen experience by increasing the frequency and duration of sitting sessions. Half-day Retreat is conducted on the third week’s Advanced Class, on Saturdays at 8:30am–12pm. We provide this monthly Half-day Retreat as a checkpoint for students to check their progress for that month.
Annual Retreat is an intensive training to help people deepen their Zen experiences, break through the forms of duality, and see the true nature of self within a set time period. Each year, we provide annual 5-or-more-day Zen Retreats for students in the Advanced Class and Disciple Program.
The Half-day and Annual Retreats are designed for students in our Advanced Class and Disciple Program, but we do reserve 1–2 seats for practitioners who are interested in joining us. For details, please feel free to contact us.
We will be practicing the Zen technique of doubting meditation (Chn. huatou, Jpn. wato, Krn. hwadu) in the monthly Half-day and Retreats. Practitioners who are not familiar with doubting meditation will be required to take a Bridging Class in advance. If you are interested in our Bridging Class, please feel free to contact us.
We provide vegetarian meals in Retreats. Retreat participants will be required to pay for the retreat fees (mainly board and lodging expenses), however, all classes/retreats provided by the None Zen Center are tuition-free. We do ask that you consider providing a donation. Your gifts make it possible for us to keep the None Zen Center operating, and for people to learn and practice Zen continuously.
* Prior registration is a must. Please contact us if you are interested in joining our Half-day Retreat and Zen Retreats.
| Half-Day and Retreat, Taiwan Year 2020 | |
| Class | Dates (Daylong: Sundays 9am-4pm) |
| No class in January | |
| TW2R1 2-day retreat | 2/28 (Fir) – 2/29 (Sat) Check in at 8:30-9pm on Thu, Feb 27th Check out at 5pm on Sat, Feb 29th |
| TW1D 69 | 3/29 |
| TW1D 70 | 4/26 |
| TW1D 71 | 5/17 |
| TW1D 72 | 6/14 |
| No class in July | |
| TW1D 73 | 8/16 |
| TW1D 74 | 9/20 |
| TW3R10 | 10/9 – 10/11 Check in at 09:00pm on Thu, Oct 8th Check out at 12pm on Sun, Oct 11th Sign Up Now！ |
| TW1D 75 | 10/24 |
| TW1D 76 | 11/14 |
| TW1D 77 | 12/12 |
Half-day and Annual Retreats will be held on the following dates:
