Meditation Week – November – No one ever comes to visit this place. It is the monk’s place!
Welcome to the zen meditation week in November at the Honora zen monastery in Switzerland.
Contemplation - Meditation Week - November
In the deep canyon where the clear stream is flowing continuously, all kinds of birds are singing everywhere. No one ever comes to visit this place. It is the monk's place and is quiet and tranquil. Here is where I sit and contemplate and reexamine what this mind is. Now, if this mind is not what the truth is, then what else is it?
We should continue to study this great matter enthusiastically. Do not hurry, otherwise you might become sick or get a terrible headache. Calm yourself, and then ceaselessly practice. Most of all, be careful not to force yourself. Rather, relax and let your right questioning arise within!
This physical body is like a motel to which we cannot say definitely that we will return. Everyone's self-nature has already the trinity. But being deluded and ignorantly not seeing the Self-nature, people instead seek outside. The Self-nature of the ordinary being is immaculate; from the Self-nature everything emerges. If bad thought are raised, then all bad deeds will result in. If good thoughts are raised, then all good deeds will result in.
Wisdom
The sun and the moon always radiate brightly; but because there are floating clouds that can cover them, it is dark below, yet bright above. If a sudden wind were to disperse the clouds, both the upper and lower sky would be bright filled with light, and everything in the world would be clearly disclosed. Ordinary ones' wandering nature is like the clouds in the sky.
If, under all circumstances, you can remain uninvolved, the determination raised in the morning will stay with you throughout the evening until the following morning. Even though ten thousand years pass by, it will continue unbroken and unshakable. In this way you become a person who has lost his usefulness. For such a person back and front, before and after, disappear.
Meditation Center
The Honora Zen Monastery is a rustic and small meditation center in Switzerland. Here you can find more information and register for the monthly meditation weeks.
