Welcome to the website of Zen Centrum Rotterdam

Our Zen center has been founded in 1988 and is located in the heart of the city in Gebouw De Heuvel at the Grote Kerkplein in Rotterdam. Most days of the week, there is opportunity to participate in the program. Each week, around 50 people find their way to our center to meditate together at various times and in different groups, to meet each other, and get inspired and challenged by Zen Buddhist teachings.

 

The group of Zen practitioners (called the sangha) is made up of people from all walks of life and different parts of society, from young to old. What connects us is the desire to follow a spiritual path. The Zen tradition offers a great variety of means, developped over centuries to help people realize that each individual is capable to live a life of wisdom and compassion. It requires practice to regularly rediscover these qualities within us and get in touch with an enlightening way of looking to the challenges of daily life, which is closer by than we might presume.

 

The teachers at our center guide this practice both in groups and individually through teachings in Buddhist doctrine. If you already have experience with Zen meditation, you can – after an initial introduction – join the regular morning and evening programs. If you have not meditated before or  received only little instruction in Zen meditation, come to the introductory course or ask for a meeting with one of the teachers. You are very welcome, also to join in on a trial basis.