KW-36-2023: Contemplating Cohen – Der Countdown läuft: Nächste Woche (16./17.9.23) startet das erste CONTEMPLATING COHEN – ZEN-Seminar in Deutschland in München und Stuttgart.

The Berlin ZEN monk Jan Shingen Gaensslen has known Leonard Cohen since 1993, when he attended the first sesshin in Scheibbs, Austria, in which he was also a participant. A year later, his path led him to the Californian Zen monastery of Leonard Cohen’s Zen master Roshi, to Mt. Baldy. Jan Shingen Gaensslen completed his monk training there in 2003. When Leonard Cohen then moved (more or less) completely to Mt. Baldy (approx. 1994 – 1999), they sometimes practiced together knee to knee in the zendo. One summer he shared the Jiki cabin with Cohen. In two weeks, Jan Shingen Gaensslen will give seminars in Munich and Stuttgart entitled „Leonard Cohen and Zen“. In it, he presents the Zen themes in Leonard’s songs and poems (with musical examples) while offering an introduction to Zen meditation.

KW-36-2023: CONTEMPLATING COHEN – Das Zen in der Lyrik von Leonard Cohen – Ein Tagesseminar am 16. und 17. September 2023 in München und Stuttgart mit Leonard Cohen-ZEN-Mönch Shingen Jan Gaensslen