Zoom meeting and online retreat will start in 20 hours

The meeting starts on Friday at 14:00 Japanese time, 7:00 am Central European Time, Saturday night in America. The home retreat will consist of three times three rounds of daily solitary sitting, from Friday (starts right after the Zoom me…

Invitation to a Zoom meeting (and online retreat) starting in two days

The meeting will take place on Friday, 7:00 am Central European Time (14:00 Japanese time, Thursday in America). Questions about the "Home Retreat" can be asked to Sebastian at onlinezenretreat@gmail.com Instructions for sitting and invita…

Keeping our distance, uniting in cyber space

Invitation to online zazen and sitting instructions

Japanese Fukanzazengi text for study group: https://muhone.hatenablog.com/entry/2020/04/08/135043

Rutenkai goes live on Saturdays (American time)

Zazen under the cherry blossoms

Why are you here?

English text: http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Shobogenzo_2_NC.pdf (scroll down to "[254] My late teacher Tendo...")Question: "Why am I here?" at 1:24:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3i3Dn7WM3k&feature=youtu.be&t=…

Zazen in the morning sun

My Teacher's House (17)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) V – Muho creates Miyaura (6) Edward: We’ve talked a lot of about the shortcomings of teachers. From the student’s perspective, …

My Teacher's House (16)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) V – Muho creates Miyaura (6) Edward: We spoke before about this idea from the Arthur Braverman’s book. That he didn’t want to l…

Sitting anyway

If zazen is good for nothing, why do it anyway?

Q: May I ask a question? In one of your recent videos you said that zazen is truly good for nothing and that nothing has substantially changed for you since your teen ages or the like. Why doing zazen then? Just because there's nothing els…

Rutenkai

My Teacher's House (15)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) V – Muho creates Miyaura (5) Edward: When you returned to Antaiji, the chaos was still there. But do you think things made more…

My Teacher's House (14)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) V – Muho creates Miyaura (4) Edward: When did your exchange with Watanabe start, after Hosshinji? Muho: Yes. After Hosshinji, I…

My Teacher's House (13)

Links to "Eat Sleep Sit": https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/NonomuraKaoru.html https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5138505-eat-sleep-sit https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Sleep-Sit-Rigorous-Hardback/dp/B00FBBFITG My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura …

My Teacher's House (12)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) V – Muho creates Miyaura (2) Edward: Why did the older monks reconcile with Miyaura after they left the monastery? Muho: You as…

Cold sitting

Unmon: When the wind blows, I fall

My Teacher's House (11)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) V – Muho creates Miyaura (1) In 1990, while studying at Kyoto University, Muho first stayed at Antaiji for six months. Aged 22,…

Muho's talk before the November sesshin

Information about the retreat: https://antaiji.org/en/practice/novem... Fast forward to the third day of sesshin: https://youtu.be/De0T1AzlOLI https://youtu.be/ZE1reHUNOeg https://youtu.be/KLNprCfOaUc

My Teacher's House (10)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) IV – Protector of Antaiji (3) Edward: Was Miyaura’s transition into the abbacy smooth? Muho: I don’t think that for the first f…

"Zazen is the only thing that is good for anything!"

My Teacher’s House (9)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) IV – Protector of Antaiji (2) Edward: How would you describe Miyaura compared to the other abbots? Muho: He was someone very lo…

"Is "every" day a fine day? Give me a break: There is only ONE day that is a fine day!"

My Teacher’s House (8)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) IV – Protector of Antaiji (1) While there were powerful figures like Kodo Sawaki and Koho Watanabe, and reserved intellectuals …

My Teacher’s House (7)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) III – The Money Problem (3) Edward: Were they living extravagantly during Watanabe’s time? Muho: They were certainly buying lot…

My Teacher’s House (6)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) III – The Money Problem (2) Edward: At this point, were you having one-to-one discussions with Watanabe? Muho: Yeah that starte…

My Teachers House (5)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) II – A Delicate Flower and the Trump of Zen (4) Edward: How did Miyaura get along with Watanabe? Did he look up to him? Muho: I…

My Teacher's House (4)

My Teacher’s House Shinyu Miyaura and the History of Antaiji in Hyogo According to Muho Noelke(by Edward Moore) II – A Delicate Flower and the Trump of Zen (3) Edward: How many people were there when Watanabe moved Antaiji?Muho: In the beg…