Welcome – Current Information
Falling cherry blossoms
the remaining
will also still fall
the remaining
will also still fall
Ryokan
Sitting down again and again in Zazen, returning to the normal state of body and mind, as Michel said, the unity of body and mind, means not only immersing oneself in the silence of the dojo, but in the silence of one's own mind by handing oneself over to Zazen and thus letting the glasses, coloured differenlty from person to person, fall away, to open up to that which is greater than ourselves, than our little "I, me, mine." This goes beyond intelligence and non-intelligence. It is meeting in the "eternally existing Buddha-mind" and the visitor to the hermitage of Tô Setsu Ken, in Zazen itself, sees with a clear vision that the mountain is blue. There things reveal themselves as they are. Everything is already in peace and harmony.
Eishuku
The whole world is a shining pearl. What is there to understand?
Gensha
The ancients say:
When illusions cease, silence arises.
When silence arises, wisdom is realized.
When wisdom is realized, the essence of things is revealed.
Eight winds rage in the sky,
the moon remains motionless.
The cosmic order is always there.
Opening hours
Mon-Fri 6:30 am
Tue, Thu 7:00 pm
Sat 10:00 am
Opening hours in April
The dojo remains closed during Easter. But on Saturday, 8 April, the ceremony for Buddha's Birth shall take place - hana matsuri.
Due to a trip to Japan during which we shall visit different temples, the dojo will be closed on the following few days:
Saturday, 15th April,
Monday, 17th & 24th April,
Tuesday evening, 18th & 25th April.
The planned zazen day on Sunday, 23rd April, will therefore be brought forward to Saturday, 22nd April, and held as a zazen sewing day. We shall dedicate it to Meiho Missen Michel Bovay and hold a ceremony at his grave.
The next introduction to Zazen will take place on Sat, 25 Mar, 29 Apr 2023 at 2pm.
When one person takes a step forward, the whole cosmos takes a step forward.
Taisen Deshimaru
Sitting in stillness transforms hearts
into mirrors that do not hold on to anything.
If we awaken ourselves to this consciousness,
all realms are images in front of our mirror:
what comes does not stick to us,
what goes does not leave a trace.
Hanshan Deqing
Zazen Night at the end of the year 2022/23
Rohatsu Sesshin, Walkringen Dec 2022
