Start winter Sesshin at Myotokuji

[Jundo]

Maybe Buddha cried lots of time.

I think so. I hope so.

I really don't want to follow some guy who does not know how to cry sometimes.

Gassho, J

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[Eishuu]

Glad you can stay there, Kakunen. That's great. Beautiful song. Much metta to you.

Gassho
Eishuu
ST/LAH

[Mp]

Hey Kakunen,

To be human is to cry. To be true and real is to cry.

If we can laugh, we can cry. One is not better or worse then the other.

Both happiness and sadness have their place. Which ever one it maybe, just be present and accepting, as each will pass like clouds in the sky.

Keep at it Kakunen, it takes time sometimes, but you are doing great. =)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Kakunen]

Today is Housan,rest and clean up day.

Everything is hard and fun.

Like cry and smile,dark and shine.

I know I need to practice,but this truth is hard for me.Maybe this fact mean,what I try to throw myself for Buddhism way.

Anyway try to just do it.

Don’t think.

Gassho
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[Amelia]

Try to just do it. Don't think. Good advice! I hope you feel happy today.

Gassho, sat today, lah

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[Kakunen]

Start winter Sesshin at Myotokuji

We always think about future.

But future and neighbors can’t control,so we need to just do it.

And we don’t need to think about happy or fun,just analyzing fact.

And accept truth.

Gassho
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[taiyaki]

thank you, Kakunen. sorry i just saw this. will email you soon.
hang in there,

gassho , ryk
sattodaylah

[Kakunen]

Start winter Sesshin at Myotokuji

I will go temporary to Chigenji monastery for 1 week.

http://seasidekyoto.blogspot.jp/2013/01/seated-zen-meditation-experience-zazen.html?m=1

In here I feel practice traditional Buddhism.

On the other side in Japan,we need to learnabout Ceremony.So I will go there.

After 1 week ago start Sesshin again.

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


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[Kakunen]

Start winter Sesshin at Myotokuji

I leave Chigenji.Because of our plan,teacher head monk Myotokuji and me.

I will go back Myotokuji,and will start 7days Sesshin tomorrow.

I meet monk who training with at Antaiji.They stay Antaiji for three year.I did Unsui crowd and water.

Life is miracle.

But they are good monk but too fat.Because after practice at Antaiji,they release from hard work,so they became fat.

I can check the way of my Buddhism.

During they are at Antaiji,I stayed at Annonji,Jyomanji,Tenryuji,Myotokuji,Eiheiji,and Zuioji monastery.

Anyway,I feel my own way.

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Kakunen



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[Kakunen]

Start winter Sesshin at Myotokuji

Muho is teacher at Chigenji.

I did not know this fact.

Kind of Karma.

Shareing his Dharma talk.

I did not know he is teacher at there.

Kind of Karma .

https://youtu.be/qezEYDU6qFY

Will share video.

SAT TODAY
Kakunen


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[Kakunen]

I started Sesshin at 1st at March,7days Sesshin finish today.

Lots of trouble and pain of leg suffer me but finish.

During Sesshin seems like spring.

Anyway very tired...

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Kakunen


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[Kakunen]

Spring come to here!

I feel when we have harmony to nature,such like Sesshin.

Because our Sesshin is harmony to nature.



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Kakunen



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[Kakunen]

Start winter Sesshin at Myotokuji

Yesterday we have Segaki celemony,and make Nehan dumplings for near people.

Tomorrow we will start Sesshin again.





Gassho
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[Jundo]

Yesterday we have Segaki celemony,and make Nehan dumplings for near people.

Ah, a traditional Soto Zen and Buddhist ceremony for the "Hungry Ghosts" ...

The segaki (施餓鬼, "feeding the hungry ghosts") is a ritual of Japanese Buddhism, traditionally performed to stop the suffering of the gaki or muenbotoke (the dead who have no living relatives), ghosts tormented by insatiable hunger. Alternatively, the ritual forces them to return to their portion of hell or keeps the spirits of the dead from falling into the realm of the gaki. The segaki may be performed at any time, but traditionally performed as part of the yearly Urabone (Sanskrit: उल्लम्बन Ullambana) services in July to remember the dead and the segaki ritual for offering alms to specifically hungry gaki or muenbotoke, not for spirits of one's ancestor.

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The segaki began as a way for Moggallana (Maudgalyayna), on instruction of his master, the Buddha Sakyamuni, to free his mother from gaki-do, the realm of the gaki. Alternatively, Sakyamuni ordered Moggallana to preach the Lotus Sutra or to travel to hell himself, a feat that resulted in the escape of all gaki into the world and necessitating the segaki to force them to return to their realm. Another story says that the student Ananda was told by a gaki that he would become one himself in three days; he thus had to feed strangers to prevent the transformation. In reality, the segaki is likely an adaptation of a Chinese festival to remember the dead.

It is interesting that it is done this time of year too.

More here ...

https://dharma-rain.org/on-segaki/

Gassho, Jundo

STLah

[KellyRok]

Thinking of you Kakunen and sending Metta to you.

Gassho,
Kelly/Jinmei
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