Sesshin at Stora Lugnet with Karen Terzano, 12-19th of August

Welcome to an Ordinary Mind Sesshin with Karen Terzano at Stora Lugnet in Järbo that mixes everyday life activities with a traditional style Sesshin. This Sesshin provides an opportunity to practice together while tending to the garden, cooking food, chopping wood, and building on the house - our everyday activities show us how we live our lives. 

Still, Sesshin is an intensive silent meditation retreat in zen buddhist style with several hours of seated meditation per day, vegetarian food, and one individual interview with the teachers a day. We welcome both experienced practitioners as well as beginners but suggest beginners and practitioners from other traditions contact us for an introduction and a chance to get some meditation experience before the retreat. We will prioritize full-time participants before part-time participants.

Stora Lugnet is located 200 km north of Stockholm.  The closest train station is Sandviken and from there you can take a bus to Järbo. 

The price for the sesshin is 3300 SEK for full-time participation and 2300 SEK for part-time participation. An application fee of 500 SEK, included in the Sesshin fee, will not be returned upon a late cancellation. If you come part-time, please specify when you can be there.  

The sesshin starts at 18:00 on Saturday the 12th of August and ends after lunch on Saturday the 19th of August. A light dinner will be served at 17:00 on the 12th before the Sesshin starts. Please come in good time before 17:00 so you have time to install yourself in your room etc.

You are warmly welcome to come earlier and help set things up for the Sesshin.

Contact Joakim Rzepka 076 094 94 75 or joakrzep@gmail.com for questions. 

More information will come closer to the sesshin once you have applied. 

Link to the application form: here


Sesshin 17th-21st May 2023 in Falun with Karen Terzano and Magnus Norén

Kursgården Lindsberg

We will arrange a sesshin in beautiful Lindsberg a few kilometers outside of Falun. Karen and Magnus will share the teaching and we invite everyone to come join us for an Ordinary Mind sesshin in Falun once again.

Lindsberg is a commune and a conference center centered on courses in nature preservation and ecologial farming. The course wing of the house that we will rent has a big old "church hall" that will be our zendo and various sized rooms with built in bunk beds in the multi-person rooms. Lindsberg is situated in the middle of the Swedish pastoral landscape and the castlelike house is shaded by a big oak. The house is privately situated at the end of a road in the tiny village at the border of the forest. there are several walkways into the forest and fields.

Our sesshin is an intensive silent meditation retreat in zen buddhist style with several hours of seated meditation per day, vegetarian food, and one individual interview with one of the teachers a day. We welcome both experienced practitioners as well as beginners but suggest beginners contact us for an introduction and a chance to get some meditation experience before the retreat. 

The price for the sesshin is 3000 SEK. An application fee of 500 SEK, included in the Sesshin fee, will not be returned upon a late cancellation.

Contact jikido Tina at: tinajensenfalun@gmail.com for questions.

Link to the application form: click here

Hope to see you there! /Falu-sanghan

Intro till zen och zazenkai 13-14 maj i Stockholm

Ordinary Mind Stockholm

Intro till zen och zazenkai med zenmästare Karen Terzano

Vi har förmånen att få ta del av zenmästare Karen Terzanos inspirerande undervisning under två dagar 13-14 maj. Oavsett om du har tänkt börja meditera, är intresserad av zen eller buddhism eller redan har erfarenhet av så är du välkommen att delta. Du kan välja att delta vid föredraget och workshopen på lördagen eller vid zazenkaien (tyst heldagsmeditation) på söndagen, eller båda dagarna. Schema och information om anmälan hittar du här.