Zen Leadership – Meditation – Week – Honora Zen Monastery – Switzerland

Welcome to the Leadership Meditation Week for Executives. Accustomed to taking responsibility and going to the limits of what is possible, the body and mind will be challenged in this week to recognize the true self.

Contemplation

Rather than monks, many laypeople come, but only an handful see the Self-Nature. Most come not to study, but to affiliate themselves with a popular pursuit.

The one word breaking through empty space; true voice of giving and snatching away: Looking around there is no one; to whom should I transmit this bowl and robe? (Zen Master Kyung Ho)

Why is it called bad? Because of not believing in the truth. Why does one receive the suffering of hell? Because of not following the word of the Holy and Wise Ones. What is the trouble? Letting thought arise in the mind.

While reexamine what yo have awakened, naturally, the major living Word will be pierced through. Even if one has seen the Self-nature, without reexamination, seeing Self-Nature will soon be obscured and totally useless. (Zen Master Hye Am)

In the study of Zen, three requisite pillars are great faith, great doubt and great provocation. Because of faith it examines. Because doubt is vivid, it examines. Since the mind is provoked, nothing else can do except for re-examination. Today's students deal with the truth carelessly, as if they were children playing with a ball, with the idea that awakening is easy and merely saying, "I understood it." But the old Master, using the sword of wisdom, destroyed them mercilessly, which is the same way that all the patriarchs have brightened the wise and holy Ones teaching by reexamination. That is the patriarchal spirit.