Open Day – Honora Zen Monastery – With wisdom we should judge carefully between what is wholesome and unwholesome in our lives!

Welcome to the open day at the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. The Way is nothing special. Over your head you carry the blue heavens. With your feet you tread the great earth. When you open your eyes you see the sun. And yet you will tire your legs with long sitting!

The Way refers to the fact that truth permeates everything from the great truth of the universe to each and every one of its numerous forms. Thus, the non-outflow Way is equivalent to the non-outflow truth, that is, the unchanging and unmovable truth is never subject to any outflow. You should practice in the midst of birth and death. Remember that you can look at the Matterhorn from the north and the south as well.

Date

Annually on the last Saturday in June

Postponed to Sunday: 30th of June 2024

Time

10 am - 5 pm

Meal

  • Salad buffet
  • Barbecue (to be on the safe side, please bring your own sausages and vegetables)
  • Cake Buffet
  • Beverages

Registration

Not necessary.

Blessing of the Spouses - Vow Renewal Ceremony

At 2:00 p.m., the blessing will be said for all spouses in a vow renewal ceremony.

Contemplation - Open Day

With wisdom we should judge carefully between what is wholesome and unwholesome in our lives. We should try and act so that the mind always remains pure, bright, and unobstructed. We should behave with a sense of firm conviction in the rightness of what we are doing.

To exercise this kind of wisdom is to wield the sword that dispels the three poisons of attachment, anger, and ignorance. It is the perfection of wisdom itself. If we are unable to realize the Way now while living in this monastery, eating the food and wearing the clothes offered to us, then in the next life we will be forced to wear the skin of an ox and to grow horns in order to pay off the debts we have incurred. There are some monks who seem unconcerned about the belongings of the monastery and this misuse them.

 

Zen Order of Switzerland