Monthly Archives: July 2015

Free day before the Yoga-Zen retreat: Cleaning rice and drying futons in the sun, July 31st 2015

The meals at Antaiji are centered around unpolished, brown rice. The husks that sometimes get mixed up with the rice need to be removed by hand. Eriko (Facebook here), who will teach us Yoga for four days starting tonight, helps as well:

Cutting bamboo, July 28th 2015

A week in the life of Antaiji

A week in the life of Antaiji, as experienced by a Frenchman:

Mui and Ben play in the drying room:

Myoken plays the Chinese harp in Antaiji’s tea room, July 10th 2015

Zuiki visits Antaiji from Zuioji, July 8th 2015

The translated quotes by Sawaki Roshi have been turned into an audio play by Werner Penzel, Fred Frith and Ikue Mori:

1. the audio play itself (51 minutes, German with lots of music and other sounds from Antaiji)

2. a 6-minute “the making of” trailer

3. Interview with Werner, Fred and Ikue