Zazen – Sitting Meditation – If you completely understood the self-nature, it would not be that way!

The zazen sesshin meditation week is a resilience training. Zazen means in Japanese "sitting meditation." To sit in the true Self. do not judge that having a place of refuge would be better than not having a place. Nor judge a man who has no place to go just like a prodigal son, by saying, 'having no place to take refuge.' Nor judge the abidingless lonely soul among the ghosts. Do you wish especially to have some place to take refuge?

If you completely understood the self-nature, it would not be that way. Because only the indigent-beings are confused about the nature of enlightenment and they gather all the karmic cause by deluded love and thought and are born into the six branches of karmic cycle; and will thus receive the result of the good and the bad.

For example, if you take karmic cause of heaven, it will result in karmic effect in heaven and of no other place. Since everything follows that karmic cause, the place in which you should be reborn is, they say, very satisfying because it is in accord with where you are.

They like the place where they were reborn and they would not like any other place. The place in which they should be reborn they call, 'refuge', while the place in which they should not be reborn they call, 'somebody's refuge.' Therefore, if you have deluded sentiment, you are creating deluded cause. If you have deluded cause, then deluded effect will result. If deluded result ensues, then there will be a refuge-place. If there is a refuge-place, then you and I will be divided. If 'I-and-you' is divided then there is something right and wrong.

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.