Rohatsu Sesshin – Meditation Retreat – There is no indigent-being who does not have divine nature of enlightenment!

Welcome to the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. The mountain week (jap. rohatsu sesshin) is a resilience training where we meditate 24/7. To reexamine life and death continuously.

One Week without sleep

Voluntarily reexamine the borders of your very own body and mind to get to the core of your self-nature.

Contemplation - Rohatsu Sesshin

The one who has understood the truth, after one period of life has passed; where does he take refuge?

There is no indigent-being who does not have divine nature of enlightenment. Not even a slight difference from Buddha and Jesus, if this true self-nature were awakened, originally there is no birth. Where can the refuge place be? It is not perplexed, but divinely radiant. It is wakeful awareness, which has no place to come. It has no place to to come, no place to go. Just know its void and tranquil essence. Do not confuse it with physical body. Just know divinely self-gnostic mind. Do not confuse with delusion.

Even if deluded thought arises, if you do not chase it, when the time comes, you wouldn't be entangled with karma. Even though you are in a state of purgatory.

Whatever the direction you choose, you will be completely free either in Heaven or in Human; you will take refuge wherever you wish to be. This where the true mind goes after the physical body has passed on.

There are no doors or gates which open to the great Way. You can neither enter nor leave it. Throughout the worlds of the ten directions every single phenomenon is completely permeated by all phenomena. Hence, this truth is also called the ocean of wisdom.

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.