Sesshin – Meditation Retreat – Because this is the place where the enlightened one can dwell and have sanctity!
The sesshin is a meditation week where we reexamine life and death wholeheartedly. Now, the one who completely understands the true mind will accord with life-and-deathless and self-enligthening-nature and will cause life-and-deathless sublime-functioning. Sublime-essence is true and perpetual, originally having no life-and-death, but sublime-functioning seems to have life-and-death because it follows cause-and-effect.
Meditation - Sesshin
However, since functioning is from the essence itself, functioning itself is already essence itself. How can it have life-and-death? It is like essence of water which is the true nature of moisture and its functioning is the wave. The nature of moisture is life-and-deathless, so too with the nature of moisture in waves - life-and-deathless. How can the moist nature of wave have life-and-death? But wave cannot exist without moist nature. Therefore, wave does not have life-and-death either.
Because this is the place where the enlightened one can dwell and have sanctity. Once true mind is completely understood, four different lives and six different karmic-cycles will immediately vanish; mountain river, and whole earth are nothing but the true mind. There is no other place to take refuge other than this true mind. Since there is no illusory cause in three different cosmos, there is no illusory effect in six branches.
Since, there is no illusory effect, of what refuge place can we talk or think? You and I are not separate. Since already I and you are not different, where are the right and wrong? This ten-direction world is only one true mind. It will be one whole body. There is no other refuge place. It can be born as an expedient appearing by free-will without obstacles.
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 monthly meditation weeks. Abbot Reding welcomes you.