A day in the life of Antaiji (September 2010)
3:45 Wake up!
3:50 Ten minutes for a pee, brushing your teeth and getting your face wet.
3:55 Settling into zazen
6:10 Breakfast, finally
6:40 Temple cleaning (traditional style)
6:50 Temple cleaning (modern style)
7:00 The chicken barn
7:05 The hens are waiting for their breakfast
7:23 Getting dressed for work
7:30 Work meeting
7:42 Samu!
8:00 Jido fells a tree...
8:15 ...Christian moves it
8:30 ...Kubota and the abbot cut it to pieces
8:45 ...Christian chops away
9:00 ...Firewood
9:55 Time for a...
10:00 Break!
10:05 The magical 15 minutes...
10:30 The cook gets busy
10:30 Fire
10:40 Old school pressure cooker
10:50 Meanwhile, in the vegetable field
11:00 Alex planting chinese cabbage
11:58 The field workers return to the kitchen
11:59 The wood cutters return to the kitchen
12:00 Yummy!
12:15 "Quiet, speedy, efficient."
12:30 One
12:30 Not two
12:30 Not three
12:30 Luftmensch Brendan, noon.
13:00 Engines get going again
13:15 Cheap labour
13:30 A stonethrow away
14:00 Harvest
14:30 Alex heating the boiler
14:45 Threshed rice
15:00 At the end of a hard day
15:05 Relaxation
15:10 Monks and cats seem to mix particularly well
15:15 Susana and Ribon enjoy a quiet moment together
15:20 Hot!
15:30 Sign reading: Babes in the bath
15:45 Ribon found a new friend
16:00 The guys turn
16:55 Dinner all set
17:05 Serving food
17:15 Waiting for seconds
17:25 Doing dishes
17:29 Ready to go!
17:30 Tea meeting
17:35 Events of the day are discussed
17:38 ...and plans for the next day made
17:40 While knees start to hurt
17:40 A master in the lonely rice field
17:45 Responsibility
17:50 Stillness
17:52 Shelter
17:55 Within
18:00 We will share another two hours here
19:00 Only interrupted by 10 minutes of walking
19:10 Last zazen period
20:30 Feierabend!
21:00 Dead man
22:00 Peace
24:00 Luftmensch Brendan, midnight
All pictures by Bildmaschine.
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