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Fernanda reads (in English) and Ochi explains (in Japanese) today’s part of the “Tenzo kyokun”, January 23rd 2017

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Today, Ochi spoke about the famous episode when Dogen met a Chinese cook on the ship, after arriving in China. First Ochi treads the original, then Fernanda reads the English text (second and sixth video), after that Ochi explains in Japanese: Original Japanese text can be found here: antaiji.org/archives/jap/ten.shtml Fernanda reads the English translation by … Read more

Yushin reads and explains today’s part of the “Tenzo kyokun”, January 19th 2017

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Yushin reads from Shohaku Okumura’s translation: “Dogen’s Pure Standards for the Zen Community” There are two alternative translations on the Internet: Instructions for the Cook (Stanford translation) INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE TENZO (translated by Anzan Hoshin & Yasuda Joshu) Here is Yushin explaining the text in Japanese: 　

Audio: “ZEN is the biggest lie of all times”

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Audio play by Werner Penzel with original sounds from Antaiji and music by Fred Frith and Ikue Mori: ZEN is the biggest lie of all times Below is Muho talking about three Buddhist books (in Japanese). Best wishes and a happy New Year!

And again: Around the main hall & exchange about the question “Who am I?”, November 24th 2016

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This time of the year we spent a lot of time harvesting the last vegetables in the fields. Some days ago we cut the buck wheat, then we were collecting the last pumpkins, and the yams, daikon radish, carrots, chinese cabbage will soon follow. Meanwhile, others are out in the woods cutting pine trees, which … Read more