Koan Seminars and Special One-Day Retreats

These exciting one-day programs offer a rare opportunity to experience koans in a collaborative environment, working with one of the foremost koan teachers in the United States. The programs include guided meditation, interactive koan work and conversation.

When koan seminars are scheduled they will be listed in the right sidebar.  (See all PZI one-day retreats.)

No experience is needed to participate in a koan seminar; koans meet you where you are.

Koans are both works of art and methods of spiritual transformation. With a koan you let it keep you company. It's not a matter of looking for the right answer, but of finding out what the koan has to teach you. The koan doesn't judge you or complain, it just reveals what the mind does. It also shows the nature of the world when it is not being too distorted by delusion.

Koans are intended to take you directly into reality — before you can explain it away.

Most koan seminars go from 10:00am to 3:30pm.
Most koan seminars cost around $65 and include lunch or dinner.

However, individual events may have different schedule, pricing and other information, so for schedule, pricing and location information for each particular retreat, please use the links in the right sidebar.