WCF: Western Chan Fellowship Zen Retreats Buddhist Meditation Mindfulness UK

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Web Name: WCF: Western Chan Fellowship Zen Retreats Buddhist Meditation Mindfulness UK

WebSite: http://www.westernchanfellowship.org

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The Western Chan FellowshipChan is the Chinese ancestor of Zen Buddhism. The Western Chan Fellowship is an association of lay Chan practitioners, a lay Sangha, based in the UK. We are registered as a charity in England and Wales, but we also have contacts in Europe, principally in Norway, Poland, Germany, Croatia and Switzerland, and also in USA. Our Zen retreats and other activities are open equally to both Buddhists and non-Buddhists. We lead a range of different types of Buddhist meditation retreats at centres in England and Wales.Some of our Zen meditation retreats follow the traditional methods of practice, and others such as our 'Western Zen Retreat' include adaptations to match the needs of Westerners. Most of our Zen retreats are silent retreats - read theretreat descriptions for details. Zen Meditation GroupsWe have Chanmeditation groups meeting around the UK. Visit us ask about meditation and the WCF. You will find a Zen sangha helpful to support your practice and the cultivation of mindfulness in daily life. LineageOur Guiding Teacher, Chan Master Simon Child, 淨宏傳法 Jing-hong Chuan-fa, is the second Western Dharma heir of the late Chan Master Sheng Yen of Taiwan, receiving Dharma Transmission in 2000. Our Founding Teacher was Master Sheng Yen's first Western Dharma Heir, Dr John Crook.Our practice includes a variety of Buddhist meditation methods from the lineagesof both Linji Chan (Japanese: Rinzai Zen) and Caodong Chan (Japanese: Soto Zen) - e.g. Gong-an (Japanese: Koan), Hua-tou, Silent Illumination (Ch. Mo-zhao, related to Jap. Shikantaza), and other methods such as use of the breath. New Chan Forum issue 59 is now available for download.Visit the New Chan Forum 59 page. Unfortunately we continue to be unable to hold residential retreats. Maintaining social distancing will be important for some time to come, especially for participants and staff who fall within protected groups due to age and co-morbidities. It is very difficult to arrange appropriate distancing for all activities (sleeping, eating and meditation) in the physical space available at retreat venues.... Our 2020 Annual General Meeting has been rescheduled and will now be held as an online Zoom meeting.The new date is the morning of Saturday 5th September. Full details and timings will be circulated nearer the time.We will shortly be accepting nominations to be trustees of WCF CIO. Details of the nominations process will be emailed to full members of WCF. If the number of nominations exceeds... Though our face to face events are all cancelled, WCF members and friends are keeping in contact and supporting each other by various other means. Here are some options available to you.Connected Practice, mutually supported home practice, has launched earlier than scheduled to meet this need. Read about it and join in: http://w-c-f.org/Q487-401The WCF has a discussion emailing list / forum... The pandemic is a rapidly changing situation and what we write here will be out of date by the time you read it. We are monitoring the situation and considering the impact on our activities. Already all retreats during February to June have been cancelled to avoid the risk of virus transmission during retreat, and it is likely that some subsequent retreats will also be cancelled. We will advise... Western Chan Fellowship CIO2006, 2008-2018. May not be quoted for commercial purposes. Anyone wishing to quote for non-commercial purposes may seek permission from the WCF Secretary. In terms of our ceremonies, as lay practitioners, we only undertake a small part of what occurs in monastic communities, but, as with everything, we need to examine and question what it is that we actually do. We need to discover the larger sense of... Meditation, spirituality and religion can work together; however, they can also work apart.We can meditate as if doing a technical exercise, engaging neither spirituality nor religion. Meditation works then on the psychological level, similarly to... …Day two. Koan day. I eventually plumped for one that, rather arrogantly, I believed I could answer. Hah! Silliness. We sat, the Koan playing in my mind as I searched for an answer. After a few sessions, Simon brought in a communication exercise... John Crook used to like to say that the essence of Chan is self-confrontation. I’ve already spoken about Dogen’s saying, “to study the Buddha way is to study the self ”. And on the first evening here a few of you mentioned you came here to understand... We introduce Simon Child’s second dharma heir, Rebecca Li, interviewed by Skype from New York in January 2017. She edited the text and added some content that was not covered in the interview. Meditation itself cannot be replaced by any words that can be said about it. But before setting off on a journey, it is worth having a look at a map.Meditation means investigating the mind: observing it and its phenomena directly and non-verbally.... This page last updated:2018-08-31 Western Chan Fellowship CIO registered charity in England & Wales number1166162.email secretary(at)westernchanfellowship.orgPostal address: Office 7511, PO Box 6945, London, W1A 6USThe articles on this website have been submitted by various authors and the views expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the Western Chan Fellowship.Accessibility | UK Zen Retreats | Privacy PolicySite designed and hosted by Simon Child 1996-2020. webmaster(at)westernchanfellowship.org

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