Jesuit – Father Lassalle – Zen Meditation for Christians – Zazen as a modern “Cloud of Not-Knowing”
Zen master Father Reding talks about Jesuit Father Lassalle – Zen meditation for Christians – Zazen as a modern “cloud of not-knowing” …
The Song of the Phoenix – Give us wisdom, give us courage to stand up for the truth and see the need around us!
The Song of the Phoenix are songs about the Holy Spirit. Give us wisdom, give us courage for the fears, for the …
Small steps bring about big changes – Persistent practice and small steps lead to big changes.
What do the Zen path and solution focus have in common? A search for clues leads to a surprising number of similarities …
Time Out – Meditation – Since you can clearly see the path, you should make a firm decision to move forward quickly!
Welcome to the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. The monthly meditation week offers you a break, time out meditation and peace. Contemplation …
The journey into silence is not a silent journey – meditation and death – The journey into silence begins and ends with the true self!
Every journey into silence begins where it is loudest and darkest. The whole world is burning, where do you want to hide? …
Zen Patriarch – Zen Master – Father Reding – Hear with your eyes and see with your ears!
Zen Patriarch in Switzerland, Father Reding welcomes you. As the founder of the Zen Order in Switzerland, he presides over the Honora …
Zen Master – Father Reding – Switzerland – Japan – Korea – Founder of the Zen Order in Switzerland
Zen Master Father Reding welcomes you to the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. Now that the journey of my life is over …
A call to Repentance and Renewal – The insatiable struggle and pursuit of sensual pleasure and that life turned away from God!
A call to repentance and renewal – From my great-grandmother’s prayer book (1900) from Einsiedeln. The 90-year-old father of Christianity (Pope Leo) …
The Godless – Prayer Against the Wicked – Grant us such a light of faith that we may see the snares of the ungodly!
The Godless – The Wicked – Prayer for the Oppressed Holy Church. From the prayer book of my great-grandmother (1900) from Einsiedeln. …
A call to salvation of the soul – One must likewise rouse the slackened spirits from their spiritual slumber
A call to save the soul – from the prayer book of my great-grandmother from Einsiedeln (January 10, 1900). The 90-year-old father …
What is zen meditation? – Transcending opposites is one of its most important tasks!
What is zen meditation? The winter zen meditation retreat ends today. The zen master begins the ritual. His voice is crisp and …
Mysticism in the Monastery – The Way to Liberation – Meditation Hall – People should ask questions about their own existence!
The winter retreat (100 Days) will end tomorrow. Spring is just around the corner. It is a warm and sunny afternoon. I …
Loneliness – The Life of a Zen Monk – The importance of loneliness. A story from the zen monastery!
The importance of loneliness. A story from the zen monastery. Whether they want to or not, zen monks live apart from their …
Resolution and Commitment – Zen Meditation means to sacrifice yourself completely!
In meditation I have to review the year just passed. Humans are different than animals not just because they can assume an …
Zen Practice – Enlightenment can only be attained through the contemplation of God!
After sometime, differences in zen practice begin to appear among the zen monks. Zen monks live with their question to attain the …
Materialism vs Spirituality – Try to ignore your Body and you will fall into hell!
Can Enlightenment achieved only by self-mortification? Materialism vs Spirituality. I think about this a lot. There are a few zen monks who …
Repentance – The Desire to escape life and death through Enlightenment – Zen Meditation
Repentance Ceremony is also the time for the zen monks to shave the head. The junior monks offered the small bathroom to …
Enlightenment – The spiritual Journey risking everything to gain true Life!
The members of this zen meditation retreat are diverse. Their ages range from sixteen to seventy comprising three generations. They represent all …
Zen Master – Honora Zen Monastery – When the truth is spoken, there is nothing to do but listen!
Once they were two zen monks on their way to a hermitage to visit an enlightened zen master. They were about 4 …
Fathers and Mothers – Decline of the Family – Civil War between Men and Women!
Dear Fathers, dear Mothers, As a young man I went into the dark forest. Far, far from home. With my teachers and …
Nihilism and Eternalism – The Deadly Traps of Zen Meditation in the West!
There are many people who, after persevering in their practice for a while, do not feel that they are progressing. They then …
Mindfulness – Meditation – Self-Consciousness – Psychological Marxists
Without goal and telos, all mindfulness in the world is useless. You can sit there for hours, even years, and “meditate” aimlessly. …
Zen Priest – Zen Monk – Abbot Reding – Switzerland
Zen Priest Abbot Reding (Zen Monk) welcomes you to Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. Zen priest As a Zen priest, I can …
Order – Life Crisis – Rebirth into the new Responsibility!
Welcome to the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. The monthly meditation week offers you peace to get out of the life crisis. …
Roshi – Zen Master – Father Reding – Meditation Center – You discover that there is a possibility!
Roshi (jap. Zen Master) Father Reding welcomes you to the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. Trained in Japan and Korea, he founded …
Compassion is not Pity – Factual Error – The truth that appears at the moment of death is lost in fear and terror!
Compassion. More compassion, then all problems would be solved! But it is often confused with pity, for compassion, like the true self, …
Mystics & Agnostics – After all, dragons live among snakes! Remember!
Mystics and agnostics continually examine the true self. With great faith, great doubt and great provocation. Contemplation – Mystics This old …
Golden Calf – Idolatry – Decline of our Society
In Christianity or in Buddhism, the golden calf is universal. When society (and you) falls apart, everyone dances around the golden calf …
Yoga and Vipassana – Lost Sexuality and lost Motherhood – Back to Paganism
The religious vacuum drives many to yoga and vipassana practices. Since we no longer use and understand the body and mind in …
Zen Master – Patriarch – Switzerland – The Zen Master manifests the Logos and lives truly!
The Zen Master manifests the Logos and lives truly. Without these role models, I could never have imagined that such a life …
Zen – Vita Innocentis – Honora Zen Monastery – Switzerland
Free from life and death. Out of the tyranny of the Zen monastery, through the desert of the marketplace and finally into …
Gospel of Thomas – These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke!
The Gospel of Thomas. These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke, and that Didymos (the twin) Judas Thomas wrote …
The Holy Bible
The Bible. The logos. The old testament – The Bible The five books of Moses: The book of Genesis The book of …
Seung-Sahn Sunim – Founder of Kwan-eum Zen School in the U.S
Well known Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn Sunim [Haeng-Won], founder of Kwan-eum Zen School in the U.S., was once staying in the …
Jesus and Buddha – The Origin of Religion is Self Awareness – The Discovery of the Will!
Was Jesus Christ a Boddhisattva or a Monk? Buddha, the World-honored One was born a prince, as the son of Suddhodana in …
The Lord’s Prayer – Pater Noster – It is a celebration and manifestation of the Logos!
The Lord’s Prayer, also called the Our Father and the Pater Noster, is a venerated christian prayer that, according to New Testament, …
Love – Responsibility – Sacrifice of the Ego – Foremost, one should introspect upon oneself with vigilant doubt!
For the seeker of truth and love preoccupied with Study, that which must principally be avoided is maintaining the idea that “I …
God – Without God, there is no individuality and everything is aimless and lost!
Without God, there is no individuality. What are we imitating? If we know what we’re imitating, then we know what kind of …
Equality of Outcome – Equality of Opportunity – Factual Error
Equality of outcome must be clearly distinguished from equal of opportunity. Often, however, we have a factual error. If I don’t understand …
Meaning of life – literally – We all have the logos (meaning of life), but are we using it properly?
What is the meaning of life? We all have the logos (meaning of life), but are we using it properly? The sword …
Meditation – Let the awakening and watching be perpetually alive and bright!
Zen is the gateless gate. Just awaken the mind and be alert. Turn your attention from the outside and radiate within. Let …
Personal Responsibility – Whether entering or exiting, whether coming or going, it is free and divine!
Personal responsibility is the most important issue to reexamine life and death. Even a mountain, river or great wall cannot obstruct this. …
International Zen Center – Omnipresent luminous, and it sees the outer perspectives without hatred or delight but with brightness!
The Honora Zen Monastery is a rustic and small international zen center in Switzerland. Here you can find more information and register …
Zazen – Sitting Meditation – If you completely understood the self-nature, it would not be that way!
The zazen sesshin meditation week is a resilience training. Zazen means in Japanese “sitting meditation.” To sit in the true Self. do …
Resilience Training – If so, then, after this corpse passes away where this one spirit take refuge?
Welcome to the monthly resilience training (zen retreat) at the Honora Zen Monastery. One who did not understand the true mind, because …
Resilience Meditation – That is why the Buddha and Jesus told us the law of cause-and-effect!
Welcome to the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. A place for Resilience Meditation. Contemplation – Resilience In the outer perspectives there …