Knud Rosenmayr JDPSN: Four-String Guitar (2025)

Dharma talk and Q&A after Zen Day on January 28, 2025 in Vienna. Thank you all for practicing together! The first question was about achieving strong concentration. This has to do with the energy we generate because, after a retreat,…
ZM Dae Kwang @ Vienna Zen Center 2022-07-15Vienna Zen Center

Zen Master Dae Kwang: Dharma speech in Vienna (2014)

Interview with Jo-Alma Potter JDPSN (2018)

In Februay 2018 Jo-Alma Potter was interviewed by the Austrian Buddhist Society (ÖBR) How did you get to the Dharma Path? Walking on the Dharma path is a moment by moment decision-ever-changing-- and as my life has progressed, the question…

Zen Master Hyon Ja: Hakuin’s Baby (Dharma Note)

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Zen Master Hakuin lived in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He is said to have created the now-famous question: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Hakuin believed that the understanding arising out of practice…

Zen Master Hyon Ja: Inside Outside: Who knows? (Dharma Note)

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Have you noticed that we often talk about Buddha as someone else? Strange to talk about yourself as if you are talking about someone else. Buddha is not someone you will someday be If you only practice hard enough maybe you will then be the…

Zen Master Hyon Ja: Sangha (Dharma Note)

Sangha is a community of people sincerely wishing to find their true nature. We pay homage to the Buddha, The Dharma and the Sangha. Each a precious valuable jewel. Sangha is where all of us together fit. Buddha is your true nature. Dharma…

Zen Master Hyon Ja: Two in one: Who is the true one? (Dharma Note)

A very interesting Kong-an that we sometimes work on in the interview room is called: Chong Nyo’s Soul leaves. Oh Jo asked a monk: Chong Nyo and her soul are separated. Which is the true one? In this Kong-an we look at two things: Chong…

Zen-Meisterin Hyon Ja: Keine Antwort darauf, warum wir leiden (Dharma Note)

Ein zentrales Thema im Zen ist das Leiden. Der Buddha lehrte uns, dass es drei Hauptgründe für unser Leiden gibt: Begierde, Wut und Unwissenheit. Aber warum gibt es überhaupt Leiden in unserer Welt, auf unserem Planeten? Wie hat es begonnen?…

Zen Master Hyon Ja: Change (Dharma Note)

Some things never change— even change itself never changes. No stopping, beginning or ending. It just flows along. Buddha named this phenomena impermanence and pointed to this as a fundamental principle of existence. But even if the Buddha…
Regular Introdiction to Zen Meditation

Regular Introduction to Zen Meditation

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The Vienna Zen Center regularly offers an "Introduction to Zen Meditation" (“Einstieg in die Zen-Mediation”) every first Monday of the month for beginners, interested and curious folks. Starting at 5:45 - 6:15 p.m., there will be a personal…