OUR PRACTICE

The Great Way is gateless, approached in a thousand ways. Once past this checkpoint you stride through the universe.

ZEN makes mind its foundation and no-gate its gate. Now, how do you pass through this no-gate? It is said that things coming in through the gate can never be your own treasures. What is gained from external circumstances will perish in the end. However, such a saying is already raising waves when there is no wind. It is cutting unblemished skin. As for those who try to understand through other people`s words, they are striking the moon with a stick; scratching a shoe, whereas it is the foot that itches. What concern have they with the truth? A man of determination will unflinchingly push his way straight forward, regardless of all dangers. Then even the devil cannot hinder him. Even all the holy and wise ones from the east and west would beg for their lives. If one has no determination, then it will be like catching a glimpse of a horse galloping past a window; in the twinkling of an eye it will be gone.

The Insopor Zen Academy is a nonprofit association.
Our purpose is to awaken each and everyone's true nature and to share compassion with the community.

Digital Almsround

Welcome to the digital almsround of the Zen Academy (100 days crowdfunding, annually from early December to mid-March). Without the mutual support of clergy and laity, there is no place of silence and emptiness possible.

Q&A

Here you will find the most important questions and answers about the Zen Academy and Zen temples.

Zen in the cemetery

The Friedhof Forum of the city of Zurich & the Insopor Zen Academy invited in September 2017 for the first time to participate in an open meditation in the cemetery Sihlfeld. The evening offers the opportunity to get to know meditation in a special place or to enjoy it once more. Annually in May & September.