At the beginning of the next video, Murilo quotes from the “Adult practice” articles:
Three and a half years ago, when I became the abbot of Antaiji, I had to attend a two-day seminary at the Soto headquarters in Tokyo (which by the way also functions as “Grand Hotel Tokyo”), where they taught you all you need to know to be a full-fledged Buddhist priest. One of the lectures was about “the attitude that a resident priest should have”. Hearing this lecture, first I was surprised to learn that a resident priest gains an income from living in the temple. As both the priest and his whole family live for free in the temple precincts, I wouldn’t be so surprised to hear that he is paying to live in the temple – but why should he be paid? As far as I know, none of the abbots at Antaiji ever received an income for being the abbots of Antaiji. The lecturer proceded to proclaim that he received “only 350.000 Yen” (about 3000 dollars) of income from the temple each month, but as he had no children and also worked part time at Komazawa University, spending the rest of his time growing vegetables at his temple, he “gets along all right”. What the hell is he using 350.000 Yen per month for […]
Today, Ochi spoke about the famous episode when Dogen met a Chinese cook on the ship, after arriving in China. First Ochi treads the original, then Fernanda reads the English text (second and sixth video), after that Ochi explains in Japanese: