Meditation Zurich – Cemetery Sihlfeld – Introspect upon the self as-it-is. Whole world is sitting inside your palm!

Welcome to the meditation Zurich at the cemetery Sihlfeld. The old and unused crematorium offers a good opportunity to meditate.

The meditation takes place twice a year (spring & autumn)

Meditation

Zen Meditation: Take a deep breath and think the unthinkable. Sit comfortably and plunge into the depths of the depths!

Requirements

  • small pillow for sitting meditation
  • rain protection in bad weather

The meditation is carried out in all weather conditions. In bad weather we meet at the meeting point and then go to the covered courtyard.

Date & Time

29. April 2024

28. October 2024

7 - 9 pm

Location & Meeting Point

Friedhof Sihlfeld
Altes Krematorium
Gutstrasse 170
8003 Zürich

Meeting Point: Old Crematorium

 

Registration

No registration necessary.

Oblations

Collection at the end

Pay with TWINT at the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland

078 408 10 89

Contemplation - Meditation Zurich

Ask yourself anytime, day or night, with your own answering. It is so important. Let us see our-selves. Introspect upon the self as-it-is. Whole world is sitting inside your palm. World outside never left you from the beginning-less beginning. It is only you who carry all kinds of ideas from moment to moment; even your-self doesn't admit or deny this fact at all. The most horrible happenings are, were and will be all caused by your lightless-ness; your original ignorance.

How can we repay our debts to all the Holy and Wise Ones, all the patriarchs and wise masters and to former parents and all the devotees? Various forms of teachings were set down for pointing out the mind to us; however, after the mind is seen, the written teaching is no longer worth reading. If you want to coexist with sages, you should rest your Karma and, for your lifetime, nourish the spirit in accordance with your own ability. The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states arise, which is also self-deception without benefit.

The sage is free within birth-and-death; coming and going, hiding and disclosing, being unpredictable. No karma interrupts him; rather, he prevails over wicked devils. When you see the original self-nature, the rest of their habitual potentiality totally dissolves, until, finally, the spirit is no longer dark. (zen master Myo Vong)

Wisdom - The gateless Gate

God is a non-doer; how could he have something additional to do? What are you going to do after eagerly looking for fame and fortune? It is just like a blind man not believing in sunshine.
Even if someone told him about it, still, he would not believe it; the reason is only that he does not have the eye to discriminate the sunshine from the darkness.

The unwise ones are just like this; right this minute they are born as animal; as one of various unknown creatures, and cannot determine at all what they want to be; they want to exist, but cannot, they want to not exist, bust must. Even though they are in such suffering every moment, when they are questioned directly, they would rather answer by saying,

My pleasure at the present is no different from being in heaven.

They do not notice nor understand their origin and instead, define their present condition as ultimate satisfaction. They are evil beings because of heavily stored karma. By knowing that self-mind is Enlightenment, anyone can be enlightened, whether one shaves his head and beard or not. However, if self-nature is not seen, even though they are shaved, they are still outsiders. (Bodhidharma)