Who We Are

If someone tells you who you are, laugh at them

“Wander where there is no path. Be all that live gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all. If you don’t realize this, you stumble in confusion and sorrow.”

Chuang Tsu

“To study the Way is to study oneself. To study oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to become one with the ten thousand things.”

Dogen

Susanne Shonen Roth

Education
Diploma in Social Pedagogy (Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences)
Certified Qi Gong Teacher
Certified Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner and Self-Help Teacher
20 years of living and training at the Eisenbuch Zen Monastery
Ordination by Fumon S. Nakagawa Roshi

Working life
Care for people with mental illness
Seminar house and course management at the Eisenbuch Zen Center
Head of the kitchen (Tenzo) at the Eisenbuch Zen Center
Seminar house administration at Haus Buchenried on Lake Starnberg

Andreas Maximilian Roth

Education
Study of music (Conservatory Munich)
Diploma in social pedagogy (Bamberg University of Applied Sciences)
Study of computer science (Technical University of Munich)

Working life
Private music teacher
Software engineer
IT-Consulting

Oskar Zenji

Education
Grew up in a Zen monastery
Freelancer in the monastery shop
Founder of the Sofa Zen School
Lifelong sofa practitioner

Working life
Psychotherapist (all health insurance funds)
Author of “Stuffed Animals, Ventriloquists, and the
Unconscious“ and ”Unenlightenment Guaranteed”
Entertainer and speaker on all topics

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