Time for Silence - Time in Zen
Learn to walk through life with ease and inner calmness

For over 33 years, this wonderful retreat and meditation center has been inviting individuals to draw new strength for life through meditation, inner reflection, leisure, silence, and self-discovery. This place offers you the unique opportunity to rediscover and reshape your personal purpose, inner peace, and passion for life. On your journey, you will experience and enjoy nature, which accompanies you in all its beauty and mysticism, serving as a teacher in the constant flow of life's changes. Thus, the Eifel wind carries away your worries, the forest greets you with its serenity, and the moon in the clear starry sky illuminates the darkness of your existence. This metaphysical landscape and the seclusion of Zen Clausen embrace you with all their strength and love, creating a space where you can peacefully address your important life questions and find new paths.
"Learn to be like the river that flows effortlessly, yet with purpose.
​Let go of resistance and allow yourself to be carried by the currents of the present moment,
​for it is in that moment and its stillness that your true path is found." -
Zenklausen

Uniqueness & Variety

The uniqueness of the Zenklausen lies on the one hand in the variety of individual offers, but also in the small number of guests (max. 8 people) that we accept per day. Hereby, each guest lives during the stay in his own hermitage (Tiny house). With these concepts, we not only concentrate on the individual needs of our guests, but also preserve the peace, quiet and privacy of each individual guest. Furthermore, ecological sustainability is an important concept and guideline for us in connection with the design and teaching of the individual ZEN path. You can find more information about these under our "ZEN-Stay" or "Location" link.

History & Future

Minh Adelheid (1939 - 2019) & Minh Judith (1938 - 2020) founded the non-denominational lay monastery ZENKLAUSEN in 1992 in the Eifel. With years of Zen experience, they have guided and accompanied many people in their lives, guiding them on their way to the silence, calm and spiritual leisure of Zen. Based on their founding idea and guidelines, a wonderful oasis of calm and leisure was created for personal and individual retreat from the hectic pace of everyday life.

Thanks to many helping and supportive hands, many people can continue to experience this miraculous and healing place, and enjoy its peace and quiet meditative for themselves. - If you also care about the Zenklausen and would like to contribute to the preservation of it, contact us. You can also find more information about Mienh Adelheid and Mienh Judith under the link "About us".
** "the Name Minh (Chữ Nôm: 明) is a popular unisex given name of Vietnamese origin, written using the Chinese character (明) meaning "brightness", and is also popular among other East Asian names. The Chinese name Ming has the same meaning."
Zenklausen in the Eifel