Meditation Week – January – Keep it before you by raising doubt and by questioning yourself!

A warm welcome to the meditation week in January at the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland.

Contemplation

Let your examination and observation be focused at one point and do not forget it. Keep it before you by raising doubt and by questioning yourself. Do not let this doubt go away while you are doing chores or the like. Do not let your questioning doubt escape from you even while your are not doing anything special. By eagerly and sincerely practicing in this manner, finally there will be the moment of awakening to your own mind.

Study hard by raising your faith. Raising your faith is sincerely re-examining the matter just mentioned.

To be born a human being is most difficult. It is even more difficult to be born into favorable circumstances? Harder still to start Meditation. It is the most difficult thing of all to find correct and righteous Truth teaching. We should reflect on this matter deeply. Buddha once said,

One who is already a human being is like a speck of dirt clinging to a fingernail, while the one who has become an animal by losing his human form is as common as the dirt on the ground.

If one loses the human form this time, then you will have to wait countless aeons to recover it. When someone is in one of the many hells, he is unaware of it, as if playing games in a flower garden. Becoming a hungry ghost or animal, you act like you are dwelling in another ones home. However if one is awakened, you do not have to live or die. That is, you do not have to endure any kind of suffering again. These words should be carefully considered one by one.

Meditation Center

The Honora Zen Monastery is a rustic and small meditation center in Switzerland. Here you can find more information and register for the mountain week.