{"id":8086,"date":"2013-09-23T04:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T04:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antaiji.org\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2021-03-30T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:14:15","slug":"%e3%83%a1%e3%83%ab%e3%83%9c%e3%83%ab%e3%83%b3%e3%81%ae%e8%81%96%e8%a6%b3%e3%81%95%e3%82%93%e3%80%812013%e5%b9%b49%e6%9c%8822%e6%97%a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/%e3%83%a1%e3%83%ab%e3%83%9c%e3%83%ab%e3%83%b3%e3%81%ae%e8%81%96%e8%a6%b3%e3%81%95%e3%82%93%e3%80%812013%e5%b9%b49%e6%9c%8822%e6%97%a5\/","title":{"rendered":"Seikan from Melbourne visits, September 22nd 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seikan was the first monk ordain after I became the abbot 12 years ago. It was his first visit in four years, and he could stay for only one night. Let him talk for himself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/19g5Hqg9mIw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After returning to Australia nine years ago, he started a Zen group and is also running a &#8220;Zen Hospice&#8221; in Melbourne. When I visited there two years ago, he asked me to bring kapok for stuffing meditation cushions from Japan, but it was confiscated by the otherwise very friendly customs stuff at the airport. When Seikan left, he again took some kapok with him. Let&#8217;s hope he is more successful smuggling than I was.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"h4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zenhospice.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melbourne Zen Hospice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"h4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/melbourne-zen-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Melbourne Zen Centre Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"h4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melbournezen.centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook: Melbourne Zen Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also has\u3000a lot of videos on Youtube. This is just a small selection:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5oi7xBxMfo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MDhhKolY3eY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RIBJx8XZ3_4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XDsyEGD2CgE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seikan was the first monk ordain after I became the abbot 12 years ago. It was his first visit in four years, and he could stay for only one night. Let him talk for himself: After returning to Australia nine years ago, he started a Zen group and is also running a &#8220;Zen Hospice&#8221; in Melbourne. When I visited there two years ago, he asked me to bring kapok for stuffing meditation cushions from Japan, but it was confiscated by the otherwise very friendly customs stuff at the airport. When Seikan left, he again took some kapok with him. Let&#8217;s hope he is more successful smuggling than I was. Melbourne Zen Hospice Official Melbourne Zen Centre Site Facebook: Melbourne Zen Centre He also has\u3000a lot of videos on Youtube. This is just a small selection:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18822,"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/18822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antaiji.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}