On the days before one day sesshins (the 9th, 14th, 19th and 24th, starting at 6pm), the practioners take terms lecturing on “Shobogenzo Zuimonki“. Today, Yudai is lecturing on chapter 3-3. Usually, a dharma talks takes about 90 to 120 minutes maximum, but tonight a lot of the foreign practioners took place in the discussion, … Read more
It is not yet decided when we will start to harvest the rice, one of the main jobs this autumn. Today we started to cut bamboo to build the “haza”,a construction on which the cut rice will be dried before threshing. Altogether we have about 4 acres of ricefields, which will be harvested and threshed … Read more
With 15 residents, it is possible to do many different jobs at the same time. Today’s samu was divided into 6 groups: Yudai’s hatake (vegetable field), Eko’s tanbo (rice field), Steffi’s herb garden, Jisui’s Zen garden, Tsukan who did shissui (carpenter) work, and a group that builds a new stone wall for a new rice … Read more
Bringing the kids to the school in the morning and picking them up again in the afternoon is also part of my job.
Today is a regular (nyojo) day. Shoko from Germany, who designed the garden behind the mainhall, and Jisui from Singapore plant new stuff, while harvesting is done in the vegetable field close by. The net that covers the vegetable field was donated by fishers in Hmasaka and serves to protect the summer vegetables from crows.
Filmed by Ellie from Australia. This is the mating season of snakes, they can be seen everywhere:
The schedule at Antaiji does not depend on the week day, but rather the day of the month. From the 1st to 5th each month was sesshin, when we sat all day long. On the 6th was a free day. After that, the schedule changes depending on a five day cycle: The first three days, … Read more
Today was a one-day sesshin. After the tea meeting at the end of the sesshin, Werner and Ayako arrived from Awajishima, an island in the south of Hyogo prefecture. Werner explains about their film project that will start in November. http://www.nomadomura.net/nomadomura/index.html
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