Basic Oryoki style video

[Guest]

Hi

This is Kakunen

I share video of basic Oryoki style at Eiheiji.

This video shared by teacher of Komazawa Univ.(Official univ of Soto Sect)

But this is kind of basic style.When I was at temple,every temple have every
style.

But they try to keep style from Fushuku-hanbo by Master Dogen.

Sat today
Kakunen
Nine bows

[Jundo]

It is lovely. I wish the camera would have more close-ups on the hand movements of the monks opening and closing their bowls.

Thank you, Kakunen.

Gassho, J

STLah

[Jundo]

For a look at the handwork to open bowls, this solo lay practitioner seems to do a very lovey dance ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Rta0Q0Wjs

Gassho, J

STLah

[Kakunen]

It is lovely. I wish the camera would have more close-ups on the hand movements of the monks opening and closing their bowls.

Thank you, Kakunen.

Gassho, J

STLah

Please do not focus about Oryoki.They take a lunch with Monjyu-Bosatsu.

Eating is not technic.This is important.

This our traditional is Zen.

We need to eat with Buddha.

Jundo.Please do not forget this fact.

I think Camera do not need to close-up.

Please watch wide view.

Sometimes we are,we are ,

Umm..

Please accept teaching of Master Dogen.

From bad monk Kakunen
Nine bows
I will sit.

[Kyonin]

Thank you for posting this, Kakunen.

Oryoki is a very important part of our practice.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Meitou]

I really enjoyed watching this, it was lovely, more relaxed than I expected. I loved the drumming too!
Thank you Kakunen.
Gassho
Meitou
satwithyoualltodaylah

[Mp]

Very nice ... Thank you both. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Shugen]

Thank you for the videos.

Shugen

Sattoday/LAH


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[Washin]

I very much enjoyed watching the videos. Thank you Kakunen and Jundo
I realise we keep a very similar format when practicing at Shugen's circles with
the exception that we serve ourselves.
While at sesshins here we usually have a shorter and a bit simplified ceremony.

Gassho,
Washin
just sat

[Jundo]

Please do not focus about Oryoki.They take a lunch with Monjyu-Bosatsu.

Eating is not technic.This is important.

This our traditional is Zen.

Yes, I join in a Tea Ceremony every month at the school for mentally challenged kids where I volunteer. As you know, Tea Ceremony is very much of the same flavor as Oryoki, a wonderful ballet of traditional movements from folding the wiping cloth to handling the bowls. However, at our Ceremony with the kids, bowls are dropped, tea is often spilled, cloths are paper tissues and people help people. Here is the true Heart of Ceremony, if you ask me.

It is tea with Monjyu-Bosatsu.

Gassho, J

STLah

[Souchi]

Thank you for sharing this video. Oryoki is really a nice experince, especially with several people together. A good example of how aesthetics and functionality are combined.

Gassho
Souchi

SatToday/lah

[Kakunen]

Yes, I join in a Tea Ceremony every month at the school for mentally challenged kids where I volunteer. As you know, Tea Ceremony is very much of the same flavor as Oryoki, a wonderful ballet of traditional movements from folding the wiping cloth to handling the bowls. However, at our Ceremony with the kids, bowls are dropped, tea is often spilled, cloths are paper tissues and people help people. Here is the true Heart of Ceremony, if you ask me.

It is tea with Monjyu-Bosatsu.

Gassho, J

STLah

Jundo

I also start to support tea group with kids.

Kids ask me ,how do I become monk?

I answer to him ,please enjoy your life.

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Sat today
Nine bows
Kakunen

[Joyo]

Please do not focus about Oryoki.They take a lunch with Monjyu-Bosatsu.

Eating is not technic.This is important.

This our traditional is Zen.

We need to eat with Buddha.

Jundo.Please do not forget this fact.

I think Camera do not need to close-up.

Please watch wide view.

Sometimes we are,we are ,

Umm..

Please accept teaching of Master Dogen.

From bad monk Kakunen
Nine bows
I will sit.

Are you our teacher now?

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today/lah

[Kakunen]

Are you our teacher now?

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today/lah

I don’t think so.

I am just here.

Nine bows
Sat today
Kakunen


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[Jundo]

I don't think that Kakunen said a wrong thing, and he is right: Oryoki and Tea Ceremony are -not- technique. Yet, they are technique too. Technique yet not technique, because soon all thought of method should be forgotten.

One masters the dozens and dozens of movements for a lifetime, like a choreographed ballet, and carve them into the bones. Then, the body simply takes over, and one is free. It is a dance.

It is much the same in Zazen, also a Zen ceremony too, as we bow and straighten the cushion, cross the legs and sit upright. A dance, the body soon to be dropped from mind.

Here is a little lesson (in Japanese) of learning just one aspect of tea ceremony, folding the wiping cloth. It is just one of many aspects, many steps of drinking tea formally. People spend months, years, a lifetime just on this one aspect.

There is freedom in just allowing to body-memory to lead, without thought, a key part of many Zen practices such as Oryoki, complex ceremonies at the Altar, sweeping and cleaning ... and a key path to one aspect of "dropping bodymind."

Yes, it is taking lunch with Monjyu-Bosatsu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwrlvnf2MQ&t=262s

Gassho, J

STLah