Year: 2013

For the first time this month the sun has come out. We continue to raise the rice plants that fell over during sesshin.

Raining since the early morning. Today’s samu was chopping would, making tomato puree and raising the fallen rice plants. I went to Kinosaki-Onsen, a hot spring town about one and a half hours away. The car had a puncture on the way, but I was just in time to participate in a small tea ceremony … Read more

Group leader Eko, Tsukan from Oregon and Yudai, a rikshaw driver from Asakusa meet with Muho to discuss a government sponsored project that involves felling trees around Antaiji. Gusho, a Japanese monk who is laso part of the so called “Antaiji forest group”, was tenzo in the kitchen on this day. During the next three … Read more

Today is the free day after the 5-day sesshin at the beginning of September. Muho exlains in Japanese about the rice, some of which have fallen over because of the taifuns that passed during the sesshin. Other work planned for this month includes harvesting the sweet potatoes that can be seen behind the second rice … Read more

You are looking at the new Antaiji Homepage. It will need refining here and there, but in the long run this will be our official “window” to the world. Have fun checking it out! Muho was away doing sesshins in Europe until the middle of August. Carrots, daikon radish, chinese cabbage and buckwheat will be … Read more

It is wet and hot, and everything is growing fast. Zen on Youtube Seikan from Melbourne uploaded two new videos: Also “Zen”, a two hour movie about Dogen’s life can be found on Youtube:）

We finished planting the rice in May, and are now busy weeding the fields, cutting grass and caring for the summer vegetables. Potatoes will be harvested around the end of June. That will also be the season when the hortensia flowers will be most beautiful. We entered the annual rainy season already, but did not … Read more

The snow melted in March and the Antaiji practioners are back in the fields, plowing, seeding and weeding. There are also lots of trees to be cut, a stone wall to be build where we extend a rice field, and a new water supply to be made. We still accept practioners, but people who come … Read more