• Contemporary meditation

    IN THE TRADITION OF CHAN BUDDHISM

COMING NEXT:

Day of MeditationDomagoj Kunić

Taste of Chan, a day of meditation

26. March @ 9:00 - 17:00 CEST Chan centar Hartovski vrh

Public Talk: A brook or a waterfall? Right approach to meditation

5. April @ 19:00 - 20:30 CEST LivestreamSedmodnevno chan povlačenjeDomagoj Kunić

Beginner’s Mind, Three-day Meditation Retreat

13. April @ 17:00 - 16. April @ 17:00 CEST Chan centar Hartovski vrh

ALL EVENTS ARE BILINGUAL

Our full program is up and running! Check our calendar for retreat and talks schedule – all events listed are bilingual, meaning a simultaneous translation to english is provided.

Weekly group meditation takes place online Tuesdays at 7 p.m. CET. It is open to all members who have completed Tranquility an Insight meditation course, or have an equivalent previous meditation experience.

FREE PUBLIC TALKS

Once a month — usually on the first Wednesday — our teacher, Chan master Žarko Andričević, gives a free online public talk. Simultaneous English translation is provided!

Each talk is an excellent opportunity to find out how the wisdom of Chan can be applied to modern life topics. Short Q&A session at the end.

See dates, times and fetch a Zoom link…

Link to: Our Programs

HOW TO MEDITATE?

Tranquility, presence, deeper understanding, joy and benevolence and qualities that all of us would like to possess. Buddhism teaches that they are not a result of chance or higher power but that they can be awakened and developed by cultivation of mind, or meditation. The tradition of Chan has been developing knowledge of meditation for the past 2,500 years. We have adapted it through our own extensive experience to the challenges of life in the 21st century.

Find out more…

Link to: Chan Meditacija

The Way is perfect — like great space, without lack, without excess.
Because of grasping and rejecting, you cannot attain it.

Do not pursue conditioned existence; do not abide in acceptance of emptiness.
In oneness and equality, confusion vanishes of itself.

Stop activity and return to stillness, and that stillness will be even more active.
Merely stagnating in duality, how can you recognize oneness?

Seng Tsan, Faith in Mind

Link to: Center

ABOUT US

Chan retreat center Hartovski Vrh is a place dedicated to the cultivation of mind, a meditation and residential center of the Dharmaloka Buddhist Community in Croatia. Settled within the inspiring surroundings of Nature Park Žumberak, its programs offer instruction and support in the study and practice of meditation, a holistic path of personal transformation and discovery of our deeper nature.

Find out more…

EXPLORE OUR ARCHIVE

meditation retreat

Exhausting the Potential of Our Method

by Chan Master Zarko Andricevic This article is taken from his Dharma talk given on the last day of an online retreat hosted by the Dharma Drum Retreat Center in March 2021 and attended by hundreds of people around the world. On this retreat,…
Zarko Andricevic meditation retreat

Self-Confidence, No-self Confidence

This dharma talk by Chan Master Žarko Andričević is a part of the series which commemorates teachings of shifu Sheng Yen. https://youtu.be/fO4memCaRrQ This talk is is given online for Chan Meditation Center in Upstate New York,…
budistička sangha
,

Strong Determination

by Chan master Žarko Andričević Giving Rise to Determination Good morning to everyone. Time is passing very quickly; do you have that feeling? In almost no time this retreat will end. For precisely that reason we must mobilize all…