COLLEGE RETREAT

1st NOVEMBER 2025

All undergraduate and graduate college students are invited to participate in our popular bi-annual College Retreat on Saturday, November 1st from 9:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m.

The College Retreat is an intensive day of meditation with your peers in a non-threatening environment in a serenely lovely dharma room. Included is instruction, a dharma talk, a few hours of sitting meditation in 30 minute segments alternating with 10 minutes of walking meditation, a delicious vegetarian lunch, a walk outside, and a personal kong-an session. A rare and precious opportunity for personal growth and insight Please register online by Thursday, October 30th at 6:00 PM. The price for this retreat is $35 and includes a delicious vegetarian lunch. As this retreat is very popular, please register early to make sure you secure a spot.

This retreat will be led by Zen Master Bon Yeon, Jane Dobisz. She has been Co-Guiding Teacher of CZC since 1993. She received inka (authorization to teach) in 1991, and transmission from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 2000. Before training in the Kwan Um School of Zen, she spent several years in the Tibetan and the Vipassana traditions. Zen Master Bon Yeon has completed many Kyol Che 90 day retreats in the US, Europe, and Korea, and taught around the world. She is an editor of The Whole World Is A Single Flower, a collection of kong-ans by Zen Master Seung Sahn. She is also the author of One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing Myself and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, which chronicles a one hundred-day solo meditation retreat in the winter woods of New England. She is a native of the Boston area.

Limited work study is available. If you have any questions, please contact our Director at director@cambridgezen.org.