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Dharma Work Exchange Program

Application LINK HERE (MS Word .doc)  (view as .pdf)

The Detroit Zen Center offers a Dharma Work Exchange Program.  Through a 6 month exchange, we provide an opportunity to live and explore training in a sustainable, grassroots urban community.  

The center provides room, board, and a small stipend for those wishing to experience a Living Zen lifestyle.  A prospective student would work and follow the same schedule as the full-time residential staff.  The work centers around our formal Zen practice and the manual work that sustains us, which includes a raw organic café and grocery, composting, recycling, growing wheatgrass and sprouts, and general maintenance and upkeep.  You would be eased into the meditation schedule and participate fully in the community lifestyle.

The Zen Center is a residential and non-residential training center composed of monks, nuns, and full-time students.  It includes a diverse mix of volunteers and visitors.  Hwalson Sunim, the abbot, has been a monk for more than 30 years, and serves as the spiritual teacher.  Through this program we wish to help participants foster solid character and a strong spiritual foundation.

A typical week combines 25 hours of traditional sitting meditation with up to 40 hours of manual working meditation.  This was the way Zen developed in China and Korea 1500 years ago.  After an initial exchange of 6 months, students can request an additional exchange period, or apply for full-time student status.

The Zen Center is located in the city of Hamtramck, in the heart of Detroit.  It is home to 32 ethnic groups.  It is a poor and religiously diverse population of Catholics, Christians, Muslims, and Hindus.  Detroit is home to many urban pioneers, artists, as well as a budding agricultural and reclamation movement.  The environment at the Zen Center is both supportive and engaging, while maintaining the focus and sense of urgency so imperative in a spiritual training environment.  Applications and/or questions can be forwarded to the Abbot, Hwalson Sunim, 313.366.7738 or info@detroitzencenter.org.
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