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Zen River yoga retreatZen River
Oldörpsterweg 1
9981 NL Uithuizen
Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)595 - 435039

Zen River is an international Buddhist monastery that offers a year-round training programme under the guidance of abbot Tenkei Coppens Roshi and Myoho Gabrysch Sensei. As dharma heirs to Genpo Merzel Roshi they both are representatives of the White Plum Lineage that was established by the late Maezumi Roshi in the USA. They are also certified by the Japanese Soto School and maintain a close connection with Junyu Kuroda Roshi, brother of Maezumi Roshi and abbot of Kirigayaji in Tokyo. Zen River is officially registered in Japan as a Soto temple (Tokubetsu Jiin) and plays an active role in the development of the European department of the Soto School.

Zen River is located in a beautiful property on the outskirts of Uithuizen, a small village on the northern edge of Holland close to the Waddensea. It enjoys the spaciousness and tranquillity of the country-side and yet it is easily accessible by public transportation.

The programme is based on four elements of training (zazen, ritual, study and bodhisattva activity) and consists of a daily schedule as well as a calender of retreats and related events. Zen River functions as an ‘open’ monastery. This means that everybody is welcome to participate in all or parts of the programme, while the continuity of training is ensured by a team of full-time resident monastics (presently fifteen). Many members join on a regular basis as to support and deepen their practice at home. Newcomers receive special attention. The overnight accommodation has a capacity of forty two participants in total. All meals on regular training days are vegetarian. English and Dutch are the common languages spoken at Zen River Temple. Classes are held in English.

Buddhism originated in India and, over the course of centuries, branched out to many other Asian countries. As it migrated and took root, Buddhism incorporated aspects of the indigenous religions and cultures of each country. The Zen school developed in China and was later brought to Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. It is a tradition that most often has emphasized direct religious experience through meditation, as well as the love and compassion this experience can generate; whereas scriptural expertise, ritual observances, and adherence to codes of conduct have been variously emphasized across different schools and time periods.

Over the last few decades Zen has become popular in the West. Particularly because it champions actual practice over doctrinal belief, Zen seems to resonate deeply in the modern mind. Its age-old and well-tested training methods for cutting through deeply rooted delusions about ourselves and the world can help us contribute to a more harmonious society. The guiding principle is that everyone can share in the wisdom of the Buddha, who directly experienced the oneness of all beings and found ways to express that experience through the activities of daily life. This living essence of the tradition has been maintained and passed down by generations of practitioners to the present day.

Zen River works to contribute to this process by providing a comprehensive training programme that, while based on the Japanese tradition, allows experimentation and adaptation — in accord with the White Plum lineage — to suit the needs of our time. The importance of having both a direct connection with a qualified teacher and a cohesive community of practitioners is emphasized. Long-term and short-term residents as well as visiting members practise together and support each other in training. The semi-rural location of the temple and the layout of buildings and grounds have proven very conducive to in-depth practice of the various elements of training.

At Zen River the Three Treasures are articulated in Four Elements of Training:

1) Meditation, 2) Ritual, 3) Study and 4) Bodhisattva Activity.

1) Meditation is the main focus of Zen River and serves as a base for all other elements. The lineage that Tenkei Roshi and Myoho Sensei represent belongs to the Soto school of Zen, but is also influenced by the training methods of other schools. That means that besides shikantaza, koans are practiced extensively. This combination has the advantage of providing a broad range of methods so that the needs of individual students can be met. In shikantaza one learns to stop interfering with the natural functioning of the mind and to become aware of the basic goodness inherent in all of us. In its simplicity it is the most natural and at the same time the most difficult practice. By turning our own light inward we find more space for people and situations to speak to us directly, so that our responses become more natural and fitting. This wonderful ability can be experienced on many different levels, and is for most people hard to appreciate fully without actively questioning conditioned patterns of thoughts and feelings. Koans have proven to be very helpful in this respect. These are recorded dialogues between masters and students of old that express the teaching in a nutshell. In actual practice they are used as meditation devices. The teacher gives the student a koan as a question and expects a lively response in dokusan (private interview). Nonrational in character, the koan cuts through dualistic thinking and allows students to experience themselves and the world as one undivided whole. More advanced koans deal with the apparent variety within this unity, the inseparability of these two aspects, and the way we can express this paradox in loving speech and beneficial action. The complete curriculum transmitted in the White Plum Lineage involves a series of introductory koans, the collections of the Mumonkan, Hekiganroku, Denkoroku, Shoyoroku, Tozan’s Five Ranks and The Precepts.