Category: Visiting teacher

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Public lecture by Venerable Chang Wu

MONDAY 22ND MAY 19:00-21:00
LOCATION: FRANCISCAINES DE LA MISÉRICORDE DE LUXEMBOURG 50 AV. GASTON DIDERICH L-1420 LUXEMBOURG
NO ENTRY FEE, DONATIONS WELCOME

 

The Path of Practice – Learning What to Put Down and Pick Up

On life’s journey of learning, you must learn what to put down
and what to pick up. Dissatisfaction and suffering arise when
you are attached to the things that you really should put down.
Regret and disappointment creep in when you shy away from
the responsibilities that you should pick up. Chan practice is
no different from life. What to put down and what to pick up?
Learning to answer this simple question will have a profound
impact on your wellbeing.

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Chan (Zen) Meditation for beginners

SUNDAY 21ST MAY 09:30-11:30 AND 13:00-15:00
LOCATION: FRANCISCAINES DE LA MISÉRICORDE DE LUXEMBOURG 50 AV. GASTON DIDERICH L-1420 LUXEMBOURG
NO ENTRY FEE, DONATIONS WELCOME

 

If you are interested in learning Chan (Zen) meditation, we warmly invite you to join us at this four hour beginners’ course.

This course will be led by Venerable Chang Wu (resident monastic and director at Dharma Drum Vancouver Center), who will introduce you to the practice of meditation in an approachable matter. You will be learning two preparatory exercices to meditation, the Vairocana Seven-Points of Sitting, the Eight-Form Moving Meditation and other essential meditation methods in order to regulate your body, mind and breath.

Through the teaching of relaxation, standing-up meditation, sitting meditation, movement meditation and meditation while eating, you will learn to relax your body and mind, clarify your scattered thoughts and obtain inner strength and peace. In using these same techniques in your daily life, it will become easier to confront people or difficult situations, to relieve stress from work and life, and to cultivate calmness and happiness in your life.

Venerable Chang Wu will have the time to look after each participant personally and answer to questions.

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Venerable Chang Wu

We were very grateful of having this rare occasion to hear Venerable Chang Wu talking to us about Chan/Zen. Venerable Chang Wu travelled especially from Canada to Europe to lead Chan/Zen retreats.  She is the current Director of Dharma Drum Vancouver Center in Richmond, B.C., a branch monastery of Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM), founded by Chan Master Sheng Yen.

Venerable Chang Wu held a total of four talks (three in Luxembourg and one in Trier) and a meditation workshop on Saturday morning in the premises of Franciscaines de la Miséricorde. Her talks focused on defining what Chan is, and where you can find it in daily life.

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Dharma Drum Mountain Chief teacher – Venerable Guo Yuan

We had the great honour of having Dharma Drum Mountain’s Chief teacher Venerable Guo Yuan visiting us in Luxembourg to teach us about Chan (Zen), and how to apply it into daily life.  Venerable Guo Yuan held two talks in Chinese Mandarin, two talks in English of which one was organised by Chinesische Schule Trier e.V.  and a meditation workshop at ELVIBGER, HOSS & PRUSSEN law firm about walking & eating meditation,

Venerable Guo Yuan studied under Master Sheng Yen for over twenty years, and assisted his teacher in many retreats overseas. He was formerly the abbot of The Chan Meditation Center and the Dharma Drum Retreat Center in New York. He is Director of the Chan Hall, DDM Taiwan and currently leading Chan retreats in many parts of the world includes Europe, America, México, Taiwan and other parts of Asia.

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Vice Dean of Dharma Drum Sangha University – Venerable Guo Gang

Venerable Guo Guang visited us back in 2012 before DDMBA-LUX has been founded. Her lectures focused on the concept of buddhist economics. Venerable Guo Guang holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, from Ohio State University, with experience and professorship in: Chan studies, lineages and practices, Buddhist economics. She is the Vice Dean of Dharma Drum Sangha University, a Chan practice, Buddhist study and monastic cultivation seminary for wisdom and compassion.

 

Buddhist economics is a spiritual approach to economics.[1] It examines the psychology of the human mind and the anxiety, aspirations, and emotions that direct economic activity. A Buddhist understanding of economics aims to clear the confusion about what is harmful and beneficial in the range of human activities involving production and consumption, and ultimately tries to make human beings ethically mature.[2] It tries to find a middle way between a purely mundane society and an immobile conventional society.[3]