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Antaiji is a Zen monastery that commits itself to the practice of zazen and the study of the Buddha's teaching, while cultivating the fields around the temple, cutting grass and trees and doing construction work to keep the community selfsufficient. |
July/August 2010
This month at Antaiji
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Information about recent updates can be found at the bottom of the page.
Sorry, but we do not accept new arrivals until August 26th!
From March 26th until July 6th, and from August 26th until December 8th, we accept guests on the 6th, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th of each month. Short term guests can come on any of these days and share our practice for any period of time during the 100 days (between March 26th and July 6th, and between August 26th and December 8th).
To learn about the regulations and general information for visitors, please consult the page about Staying at Antaiji.
We hold a five-day-sesshin from the 1st to 5th, and four one-day-sesshins on the 10th, 15th, 20th and 25th of each month.
The sesshin schedule is as follows:
| 4am to 9am | Zazen/Kinhin |
| 9am | Breakfast |
| 10am to 3pm | Zazen/Kinhin |
| 3pm | Lunch |
| 4pm to 9pm | Zazen/Kinhin |
| 9pm | Lights out |
Here are more informations about our schedules.
Samu (labor) takes places on the days between sesshin:
Weeding in the rice and vegetable fields.
Cutting trees. The trees will be chopped and used as fire wood.
Cutting grass and making compost.
On the night before each long sesshin, the abbot gives a talk on Dogen's Bendowa and on Adult practice.
On the days before one day sesshins, the practioners take terms lecturing on: Shobogenzo Zuimonki
The practioners read the text, explain it and reflect on how it relates to their own practice and their life here.
Part 3 of an article concerning the question "What does it take to become a full-fledged Soto-shu priest and is it really worth the whole deal?": July & August 2010 - Ten-e and zuise.
Muho will be in Germany and the Netherlands in the summer of 2010 . There will be a weekend sesshin at Buddhistischen Gesellschaft Berlin (July 30th - August 1st, 2010) and a one-day-sitting on the 28th at Tenzo Gasthof in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (north of Berlin). Information can be found on the respective websites. Another sesshin is planned in Schin up Geul in the Netherlands (between Maastricht and Aachen) from July 23rd to 25th. Informations about the sesshin in the Netherlands at sesshin@benbammer.nl
The schedule in the Netherlands will be something along the lines of:
Friday 23rd:
Arrive until 18:00
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Introduction, Q&A
21:20– 22:00 Zazen
Saturday 24th:
5:30 – 6:10 Zazen
6:10 – 6:20 Kinhin
6:20 – 7:00 Zazen
7:00 – 7:10 Kinhin
7:10 – 7:50 Zazen
7:50 – 8:00 Kinhin
8:00 – 8:40 Zazen
8:40 – 8:50 Kinhin
8:50 – 9:30 Zazen
9:30 Breakfast, washing dishes
Break
11:30 – 12:10 Zazen
12:10 – 12:20 Kinhin
12:20 – 13:00 Zazen
13:00 – 13:10 Kinhin
13:10 – 13:50 Zazen
13:50 – 14:00 Kinhin
14:00 – 14:40 Zazen
14:40 – 14:50 Kinhin
14:50 – 15:30 Zazen
15:30 Dinner, washing dishes
Break
17:30 – 18:10 Zazen
18:10 – 18:20 Kinhin
18:20 – 19:00 Zazen
19:00 – 19:10 Kinhin
19:10 – 19:50 Zazen
19:50 – 20:00 Kinhin
20:00 – 20:40 Zazen
20:40 – 20:50 Kinhin
20:50 – 21:30 Zazen
Sunday 25th
5:30 – 6:10 Zazen
6:10 – 6:20 Kinhin
6:20 – 7:00 Zazen
7:00 – 7:10 Kinhin
7:10 – 7:50 Zazen
7:50 Breakfast, washing dishes
Break
10:00 – 10:40 Zazen
10:40 – 10:50 Kinhin
10:50 – 11:30 Zazen
Three bows, cleaning, help in the kitchen
12:30 Lunch, washing dishes, talking, maybe some small dharma talk from 14:00
