Year: 2016

First half in Japanese, second half in English:

..were among the topic of Nobu’s talk on the Shobogenzo HACHIDAININKAKU today. Here is the first half an hour (in Japanese only):

Today was Mui’s turn to give a talk about Shobogenzo HACHIDAININKAKU. Mui asks the question “Is Buddhism only for introverts?”, when talking about the part: The third is ‘enjoying the tranquility of nirvana’. What He called ‘enjoying the tranquility of nirvana’ means leaving behind all the noise and hubbub for the solitude of the open … Read more

Less snow than usual at this time of the year, but still enough to make it easy to concentarte on zazen and study. This year’s topics are Gakudoyojinshu, Juundoshiki and Hachidaininkaku.

The movie “Zen for nothing”, that was filmed two years ago at Antaiji, will have its world premiere at the Solothurn film festival in Switzerland. It will be shown in cinemas around Europe (and maybe America?) later during 2016. Here are some Interview clips and outtakes: