Nirvana Day, February 15th 2016
2500 years since Shakyamuni entered nirvana. 14 years since the previous abbot passed away in the snow.
Muho explains zazen (English) and Kanda answers question (Japanese), February 11th 2016
In the video Muho answers a question regarding the position of feet and hands during zazen. Sorry about the fog!
More detailed information can be found in our archive:
How to sit?
You look like a ball of cotton wool!
Falling in love with zazen
A map for letting go maps
The perfection of patience
Sesshin without toys
Eat two parts out of three
What do you eat?
Work to live – or live to work?
Why are you so busy?
Milking the goat
Obstructed by the kesa
The meaning of the o-kesa
Why bow to a cushion!?
About feet and legs:
Crossing the legs
Crossing the legs (2)
Crossing the legs (3)
Crossing the legs (4)
Crossing the legs (5)
Crossing the legs (6)
Crossing the legs (7)
Crossing the legs (8)
About the hips:
About the hands:
Other topics:
A Zen master and inemuri zazen
Shôshintanza – Sitting upright
What to do with your face?
“Undo” Zazen:
Nobu asks Kanda, how you can tell if someone is “one”:
Non-Buddhists awake from hibernation, and Setchin gives talk on Gakudoyojinshu in Japanese, February 8th 2016
New activity on some non-buddhist blogs:
Tutteji Wachtmeister
“Over the past couple of years there has been a tremendous outpouring of compassion, concern and curiosity from the Transintegral™ community regarding its founder and main teacher, Tutteji Wachtmeister. As we all know, Tutteji entered a solitary, personal retreat in early 2014, and for the past couple of years the beloved guide, considered by many as “the smartest guru alive” and “the thinking man’s Ken Wilber”, has not given any public teachings.
Until now.
We are incredibly excited to announce that Tutteji Dai Osho is back and has resumed leadership of the Transintegral Zen™ Sangha and the entire Transintegral community. At his side is an extremely talented, vibrant community of newly transmitted Dharma teachers and we can expect a virtual avalanche of updated, fun and profitable teachings right from the frothy frontlines of cutting-edge spiritual evolution.”
Speculative Non-Buddhism – an experiment in creative criticism
“Is there hope after all? If you are as excited as I am about Tutteji’s re-emergence from his dark night of transintegral metemschizoidseelewanderung in the cosmic markets (or wherever the hell he’s been), then please remember to donate to the Tutteji Gratitude Fund. I hope you’ll all join me in a hearty long live the Wachmeister, master of brainwaves and market fluctuations! God and Ken Wilber know we need him!” (by Glenn Wallis)
Lines of Flight
“Things have slowed down a bit here. Only three or four visits a day, almost no comments. So what better time to attempt a somewhat more self-indulgent post?
I’m posting the first section of a draft of a novel I’m working on. Or, have just about finished and am trying to revise. Or […]
Jinen questions Mui: “How can you continue your practice?”, February 7th 2016
First half in Japanese, second half in English: