“View from the igloo” and Murilo giving an English talk on “Chijishingi”, February 13th 2017
Not “six months”, but weeks of course:
Dosen reads and explains the first part of the “Chiji-shingi”, January 29th 2017
Dosen first reads the original in Japanese, then (in the third video) the English translation, afterwards he gives a talk in Japanese:
Japanese original text:
English translation:
Dharma talk:
Murilo reads and explains today’s part of the “Tenzo kyokun”, January 27th 2017
Before Murilo’s English talk, Kanda reads the original text by Dogen:
The Japanese original can be found here:
https://antaiji.org/archives/jap/ten.shtml
Next, Murilo reads the English translation by Leigthon/Okumura:
Different versions on the Internet:
Instructions for the Cook (Stanford translation)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE TENZO (translated by Anzan Hoshin & Yasuda Joshu)
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 […]