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Sitting in stillness, hearts become clear mirrors.
If we awake ourselves to this consciousness,
all things become images before our mirror:
What comes does not remain,
What goes leaves no trace.
Hanshan Deqing
The Zen temple Muijoji, Castle of Non-Fear, is led by Godo Roshi Eishuku Monika Leibundgut. She has been practising since 1985 and was ordained as a nun in 1988 by Zen Master Meihô Missen Michel Bovay. In 2012 she received Dharma transmission (shihô/inkin) from Gu-en Yûkô Okamoto in Teishoji and in 2013, ensued the Zuise Ceremony in the two main temples Eiheiji and Sojiji, the official confirmation as a Dharma teacher and Zen priestess (oshô).
Assistant to Master Meihô Missen Michel for twenty years, she took over responsibility for the Zen Dojo Zurich at his request after his death in 2009, supported by other fellow disciples.
The Zen Dojo Zurich offers instruction and daily zazen practice (see opening hours) and is run by twenty monks and nuns, actively supported by ordained lay persons (Bodhisattvas) and other lay practitioners. It is open to all who seriously wish to practise the Zen way – Zazen, sitting in silence, without moving and without being moved, without wanting or rejecting anything, without deliberating, without judgement, in the pure observation of the normal condition, the unity of body and mind – shikantaza.
The cosmic order is always there.
Zazen Day with Jifu Olivier Pressac, 2 October 2022
