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)
Muho replies to criticism: “Why can’t I just come for two weeks to Antaiji?”, June 29th 2015
3 new bodhisattvas
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Audio by Werner Penzel/Ikue Mori/Fred Frith:
“Zen is the biggest lie of all times”
http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendungen/hoerspiel-und-medienkunst/hoerspiel-zen-luege-100.html
After the original broadcast on July 3rd, the audio file will be available for download as a podcast.
Information about “Lentil as anything” and its founder Shanaka Fernando:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentil_as_Anything
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanaka_Fernando
Muho on the question why Antaiji has an age restriction:
Muho talks about the meaning of happiness, June 16th 2015
Happiness is everywhere. Except for that exact spot where YOU are! (Polish proverb)
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln)
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. (George Bernard Shaw)
Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy; only because of that. … It’s everything, everything, Whoever learns will at once immediately become happy, that same moment.
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
(Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads. (Nikolaus Lenau)
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. (Albert Camus)
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. (Eric Hoffer)
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
After all, it is foolish to keep probing for happiness or unhappiness, for it seems to me it would be hard to exchange the unhappiest days of my life for all the happy ones. (Hermann Hesse）
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. (Og Mandino)
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our […]
Beginner’s Zen in Karuizawa, marathon in Hamasaka, May 24th 2015
Muho teaches “Beginner’s Zen” in Karuizawa, while three of the residents in Antaiji participate in a marathon in Hamasaka, dthe small coastal town not far from the monastery.
20 newcomers at Antaiji, May 21st 2015
We had quite a good number of new arrivals yesterday. Twenty of them, and feathered.
They are retired hens from a chicken battery close buy, whom we buy for a price of 30 yen per hen. They will spend the rest of their days in the new chicken shed and the connecting palying ground, hopefully laying an egg from time to time to contribute to our diet.
Also, Antaiji was featured in a magazine called pen, representing Buddhism just behind the Dalai Lama. Too bad we did not make the first spot:
And for all of you who are in Japan right now, Muho will be leading zazen classes at the Truenature Yoga event in Karuizawa on the weekend (May 23rd and 24th):